forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
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validate_section_offset() uses unsigned long local variable to add/store shdr->sh_offset and shdr->sh_size on all platforms. unsigned long is too short when sh_offset is Elf64_Off which would be the case on 64bit ELF headers. Without this fix applied we were shorting the design of modules to have section headers placed within the 32-bit boundary (4 GiB) instead of 64-bits when on 64-bit architectures (which allows for up to 16,777,216 TiB). In practice this just meant we were limiting modules sections to below 4 GiB even on 64-bit systems. This then should not really affect any real-world use case as modules these days obviously should likely never exceed 1 GiB in size overall. A specially crafted invalid module might succeed to skip validation in validate_section_offset() due to this mistake, but in such case no impact is observed through code inspection given the correct data types are used for the copy of the module when needed on move_module() when the section type is not SHT_NOBITS (which indicates no the section occupies no space on the file). Fix the overflow problem using the right size local variable when CONFIG_64BIT is defined. Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> [mcgrof: expand commit log with possible impact if not applied] Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> |
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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.