[PATCH] staging: android: ashmem: Fix mmap size validation

Alistair Strachan astrachan at google.com
Tue Jun 19 22:24:44 UTC 2018


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 <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve at android.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos at android.com>
Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco at android.com>
Cc: devel at driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: kernel-team at android.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan at google.com>
---
 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 a1a0025b59e0..1eeedb529a10 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 (unlikely(vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start > PAGE_ALIGN(asma->size))) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	/* requested protection bits must match our allowed protection mask */
 	if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & ~calc_vm_prot_bits(asma->prot_mask, 0)) &
 		     calc_vm_prot_bits(PROT_MASK, 0))) {


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