Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Sat Nov 19 2022 - 20:40:13 EST


On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 12:59:07AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 12:39:26PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(vgetrandom_alloc, unsigned long __user *, num,
> > > + unsigned long __user *, size_per_each, unsigned int, flags)
> > > +{
> > > + unsigned long alloc_size;
> > > + unsigned long num_states;
> > > + unsigned long pages_addr;
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + if (flags)
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > > + if (get_user(num_states, num))
> > > + return -EFAULT;
> > > +
> > > + alloc_size = size_mul(num_states, sizeof(struct vgetrandom_state));
> > > + if (alloc_size == SIZE_MAX)
> > > + return -EOVERFLOW;
> > > + alloc_size = roundup(alloc_size, PAGE_SIZE);
> >
> > Small detail: the roundup to PAGE_SIZE can make alloc_size overflow to 0.
> >
> > Also, 'roundup(alloc_size, PAGE_SIZE)' could be 'PAGE_ALIGN(alloc_size)'.
>
> Good catch, thanks. So perhaps this?
>
> alloc_size = size_mul(num_states, sizeof(struct vgetrandom_state));
> if (alloc_size > SIZE_MAX - PAGE_SIZE + 1)
> return -EOVERFLOW;
> alloc_size = PAGE_ALIGN(alloc_size);
>
> Does that look right?

Yes. Maybe use 'SIZE_MAX & PAGE_MASK'?

Another alternative is the following:

if (num_states >
(SIZE_MAX & PAGE_MASK) / sizeof(struct vgetrandom_state))
return -EOVERFLOW;
alloc_size = PAGE_ALIGN(num_states * sizeof(struct vgetrandom_state));

- Eric