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next_pidmap: fix overflow condition
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:35:30 +0000 (10:35 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:44:25 +0000 (08:44 -0700)
commit67e022f3add1879292986e779b2aaf6ecb93fa58
treecb8c3caf79920b3d89d5b12344fbbc76f0fdc297
parent3aed738e4f41feb2e18ce448bc53751beab49128
next_pidmap: fix overflow condition

commit c78193e9c7bcbf25b8237ad0dec82f805c4ea69b upstream.

next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.

Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.

So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT.  The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).

[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Analyzed-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/linux/pid.h
kernel/pid.c