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From: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>,
	[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: buffer overflow in io_sq_thread()
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 17:09:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Am 01.04.21 um 10:51 schrieb Pavel Begunkov:
> On 31/03/2021 21:24, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> The code below will overflow because TASK_COMM_LEN is 16 but PID can be
>> as large as 1 billion which is 10 digit number.
>>
>> Currently not even Fedora ships pid_max that large but still...
> 
> And is safer limited in any case. Thanks
> 
>>
>> 	Alexey
>>
>> static int io_sq_thread(void *data)
>> {
>>         struct io_sq_data *sqd = data;
>>         struct io_ring_ctx *ctx;
>>         unsigned long timeout = 0;
>>         char buf[TASK_COMM_LEN];
>>         DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
>>
>>         sprintf(buf, "iou-sqp-%d", sqd->task_pid);

I have patches for this see
https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/[email protected]/T/#m9a9707c76e0ca73b54676b5d0fe198587b36c1b4

As there's no urgent problem in 5.12 I'll repost them for 5.13...

metze


      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-31 20:24 buffer overflow in io_sq_thread() Alexey Dobriyan
2021-04-01  8:51 ` Pavel Begunkov
2021-04-01 15:09   ` Stefan Metzmacher [this message]

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