Re: [PATCH] vduse: Fix a possible warning in vduse_create_dev()

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 07:59:58PM -0800, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> As 'dev->vq_num' is user-controlled data, if user tries to allocate
> memory larger than(>=) MAX_ORDER, then kcalloc() will fail, it
> creates a stack trace and messes up dmesg with a warning.
> 
> Call trace:
> -> vduse_ioctl
> --> vduse_create_dev
> 'config->vq_num' is user data as it comes from ioctl, which is
> assigned to 'dev->vq_num'.
> 
> Add __GFP_NOWARN in order to avoid too large allocation warning.
> This is detected by static analysis using smatch.
> 
> Fixes: c8a6153b6c59 ("vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace")
> Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> index 35dceee3ed56..5e9546b16165 100644
> --- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
> @@ -1512,7 +1512,8 @@ static int vduse_create_dev(struct vduse_dev_config *config,
>  	dev->config_size = config->config_size;
>  	dev->vq_align = config->vq_align;
>  	dev->vq_num = config->vq_num;
> -	dev->vqs = kcalloc(dev->vq_num, sizeof(*dev->vqs), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	dev->vqs = kcalloc(dev->vq_num, sizeof(*dev->vqs),
> +			   GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
>  	if (!dev->vqs)
>  		goto err_vqs;

This is insufficient - the real source of the problem is that
vq_num is not validated.
The thing to do is to validate config and limit vq_num to 0xffff;


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> 2.38.1