On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 05:57:35PM -0700, Alistair Strachan wrote:
> The ashmem driver did not check that the size/offset of the vma passed
> to its .mmap() function was not larger than the ashmem object being
> mapped. This could cause mmap() to succeed, even though accessing parts
> of the mapping would later fail with a segmentation fault.
> 
> Ensure an error is returned by the ashmem_mmap() function if the vma
> size is larger than the ashmem object size. This enables safer handling
> of the problem in userspace.
> 
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <[email protected]>
> Cc: Martijn Coenen <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2: Removed unnecessary use of unlikely() macro
> 
>  drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c 
> b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> index c6386e4f5c9b..e392358ec244 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
> @@ -366,6 +366,12 @@ static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct 
> vm_area_struct *vma)
>               goto out;
>       }
>  
> +     /* requested mapping size larger than object size */
> +     if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start > PAGE_ALIGN(asma->size)) {
> +             ret = -EINVAL;
> +             goto out;
> +     }
> +

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>

thanks,

 - Joel

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