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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-12-16 13:42:06 -0500
committerSimon Shields <keepcalm444@gmail.com>2017-01-08 23:55:35 +1100
commit9a7fc3e07911d1eceef278ecaa95c7f5f2d4bf37 (patch)
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sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit to be called under KERNEL_DS
Both damn things interpret userland pointers embedded into the payload; worse, they are actually traversing those. Leaving aside the bad API design, this is very much _not_ safe to call with KERNEL_DS. Bail out early if that happens. Change-Id: I0d2f3b1ed4e763c559ecec98af32767360985e91 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/sg.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index 4172f891f01..819c84bec38 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -543,6 +543,9 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos)
sg_io_hdr_t *hp;
unsigned char cmnd[MAX_COMMAND_SIZE];
+ if (unlikely(segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if ((!(sfp = (Sg_fd *) filp->private_data)) || (!(sdp = sfp->parentdp)))
return -ENXIO;
SCSI_LOG_TIMEOUT(3, printk("sg_write: %s, count=%d\n",