From: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghan...@gmail.com> When args->nr_local is 0, nr_pages gets also 0 due some size calculation via rds_rm_size(), which is later used to allocate pages for DMA, this bug produces a heap Out-Of-Bound write access to a specific memory region.
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Ghannam <simo.ghan...@gmail.com> --- net/rds/rdma.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/rds/rdma.c b/net/rds/rdma.c index bc2f1e0977d6..40a733566eb7 100644 --- a/net/rds/rdma.c +++ b/net/rds/rdma.c @@ -525,6 +525,9 @@ int rds_rdma_extra_size(struct rds_rdma_args *args) local_vec = (struct rds_iovec __user *)(unsigned long) args->local_vec_addr; + if (args->nr_local == 0) + return -EINVAL; + /* figure out the number of pages in the vector */ for (i = 0; i < args->nr_local; i++) { if (copy_from_user(&vec, &local_vec[i], -- 2.14.1