mips: sched: Fix CPUMASK_OFFSTACK memory corruption

This patch addresses a critical memory management flaw. When
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled, cpumask_var_t is a pointer.
Consequently, sizeof(new_mask) evaluates to the pointer size, causing
copy_from_user() to clobber the mask pointer. Furthermore, the old
logic performed copy_from_user() before allocating the mask.

Fix this by allocating new_mask first. To handle variable-sized user
masks correctly, use cpumask_size() to truncate overly large user masks
or pad undersized masks with zeros before copying the data directly into
the allocated buffer.

Fixes: 295cbf6d63 ("[MIPS] Move FPU affinity code into separate file.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
This commit is contained in:
Aaron Tomlin 2026-05-26 10:16:51 -04:00 committed by Thomas Bogendoerfer
parent 1b001b16bc
commit 98e37db4a3

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@ -71,11 +71,16 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
struct task_struct *p;
int retval;
if (len < sizeof(new_mask))
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(&new_mask, user_mask_ptr, sizeof(new_mask)))
return -EFAULT;
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&new_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
if (len < cpumask_size())
cpumask_clear(new_mask);
else if (len > cpumask_size())
len = cpumask_size();
if (copy_from_user(new_mask, user_mask_ptr, len)) {
retval = -EFAULT;
goto out_free_new_mask;
}
cpus_read_lock();
rcu_read_lock();
@ -84,7 +89,8 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
if (!p) {
rcu_read_unlock();
cpus_read_unlock();
return -ESRCH;
retval = -ESRCH;
goto out_free_new_mask;
}
/* Prevent p going away */
@ -95,13 +101,9 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto out_put_task;
}
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&new_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free_cpus_allowed;
}
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&effective_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free_new_mask;
goto out_free_cpus_allowed;
}
if (!check_same_owner(p) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
retval = -EPERM;
@ -142,13 +144,13 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
}
out_unlock:
free_cpumask_var(effective_mask);
out_free_new_mask:
free_cpumask_var(new_mask);
out_free_cpus_allowed:
free_cpumask_var(cpus_allowed);
out_put_task:
put_task_struct(p);
cpus_read_unlock();
out_free_new_mask:
free_cpumask_var(new_mask);
return retval;
}