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Waiman Long 419d8fb163 KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read 
[ Upstream commit 4f0882491a ]

By allocating a kernel buffer with a user-supplied buffer length, it
is possible that a false positive ENOMEM error may be returned because
the user-supplied length is just too large even if the system do have
enough memory to hold the actual key data.

Moreover, if the buffer length is larger than the maximum amount of
memory that can be returned by kmalloc() (2^(MAX_ORDER-1) number of
pages), a warning message will also be printed.

To reduce this possibility, we set a threshold (PAGE_SIZE) over which we
do check the actual key length first before allocating a buffer of the
right size to hold it. The threshold is arbitrary, it is just used to
trigger a buffer length check. It does not limit the actual key length
as long as there is enough memory to satisfy the memory request.

To further avoid large buffer allocation failure due to page
fragmentation, kvmalloc() is used to allocate the buffer so that vmapped
pages can be used when there is not a large enough contiguous set of
pages available for allocation.

In the extremely unlikely scenario that the key keeps on being changed
and made longer (still <= buflen) in between 2 __keyctl_read_key()
calls, the __keyctl_read_key() calling loop in keyctl_read_key() may
have to be iterated a large number of times, but definitely not infinite.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
 		2020-04-29 16:33:11 +02:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Hide CTR_EL0.DIC on systems affected by Neoverse-N1 #1542419 2020-04-29 16:32:56 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch powerpc/pseries: Fix MCE handling on pseries 2020-04-29 16:33:01 +02:00
block block, bfq: invoke flush_idle_tree after reparent_active_queues in pd_offline 2020-04-23 10:36:26 +02:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto crypto: rng - Fix a refcounting bug in crypto_rng_reset() 2020-04-17 10:50:16 +02:00
drivers vrf: Check skb for XFRM_TRANSFORMED flag 2020-04-29 16:33:11 +02:00
fs ceph: don't skip updating wanted caps when cap is stale 2020-04-29 16:32:58 +02:00
include tcp: cache line align MAX_TCP_HEADER 2020-04-29 16:33:09 +02:00
init kbuild: remove header compile test 2020-03-05 16:43:47 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-29 16:33:00 +02:00
kernel perf/core: Disable page faults when getting phys address 2020-04-29 16:33:02 +02:00
lib lib/raid6/test: fix build on distros whose /bin/sh is not bash 2020-04-29 16:33:00 +02:00
mm mm, memcg: do not high throttle allocators based on wraparound 2020-04-17 10:50:17 +02:00
net xfrm: Always set XFRM_TRANSFORMED in xfrm{4,6}_output_finish 2020-04-29 16:33:11 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Set -fno-stack-protector when building BPF programs 2020-02-24 08:36:36 +01:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: Fix a few alignment issues 2020-04-29 16:33:00 +02:00
security KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read 2020-04-29 16:33:11 +02:00
sound ASoC: SOF: trace: fix unconditional free in trace release 2020-04-29 16:33:05 +02:00
tools selftests: Fix suppress test in fib_tests.sh 2020-04-29 16:33:09 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: Check for a bad hva before dropping into the ghc slow path 2020-03-05 16:43:48 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap ARM: SoC fixes 2019-11-10 13:41:59 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 17:22:19 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.35 2020-04-23 10:36:46 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.