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Re: [PATCH] xen/gntalloc: validate grant count before allocation


  • To: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@xxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:14:03 +0200
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  • Delivery-date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:14:23 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 24.06.26 14:47, Yousef Alhouseen wrote:
gntalloc_ioctl_alloc() allocates the grant-id array before checking
whether the requested count can fit within the global grant limit.
Counts above the limit cannot succeed, so reject them before the
user-controlled allocation size reaches kcalloc().

The locked limit check also adds a u32 count to signed global counters.
Rewrite it as a subtraction-based range check so the arithmetic cannot
wrap around the limit.

While there, cast the count before advancing the per-file index so the
page-size multiplication is done in 64-bit arithmetic.

Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/xen/gntalloc.c | 13 +++++++++++--
  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c b/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c
index eadedd1e9..ba6a25a09 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/gntalloc.c
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ static long gntalloc_ioctl_alloc(struct 
gntalloc_file_private_data *priv,
        int rc = 0;
        struct ioctl_gntalloc_alloc_gref op;
        uint32_t *gref_ids;
+       int limit_snapshot;

This needs to be an unsigned int, same applies to the already existing
"limit" and "gref_ids".

Could you please create a small series with patch 1 changing "limit" and
"gref_ids" to unsigned int and let this patch be patch 2?

The rest of this patch (with the "< 0" tests and some type casts removed)
is looking fine to me.


Juergen

pr_debug("%s: priv %p\n", __func__, priv); @@ -280,6 +281,12 @@ static long gntalloc_ioctl_alloc(struct gntalloc_file_private_data *priv,
                goto out;
        }
+ limit_snapshot = READ_ONCE(limit);
+       if (limit_snapshot < 0 || op.count > (uint32_t)limit_snapshot) {
+               rc = -ENOSPC;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        gref_ids = kcalloc(op.count, sizeof(gref_ids[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!gref_ids) {
                rc = -ENOMEM;
@@ -292,14 +299,16 @@ static long gntalloc_ioctl_alloc(struct 
gntalloc_file_private_data *priv,
         * are about to enforce, removing them here is a good idea.
         */
        do_cleanup();
-       if (gref_size + op.count > limit) {
+       limit_snapshot = READ_ONCE(limit);
+       if (limit_snapshot < 0 || gref_size > limit_snapshot ||
+           op.count > (uint32_t)(limit_snapshot - gref_size)) {
                mutex_unlock(&gref_mutex);
                rc = -ENOSPC;
                goto out_free;
        }
        gref_size += op.count;
        op.index = priv->index;
-       priv->index += op.count * PAGE_SIZE;
+       priv->index += (uint64_t)op.count * PAGE_SIZE;
        mutex_unlock(&gref_mutex);
rc = add_grefs(&op, gref_ids, priv);

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