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authorBryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me>2026-07-17 06:26:56 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-09-07 17:22:57 +0200
commitd8caf96040a06096276ab72f5e1e8547c014c564 (patch)
tree92a8caac9925d5223bbcf50e5edb5bf670f9da50
parentab5dcde6fa96bc115b85f3621c60e39c66229a90 (diff)
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dm-pcache: validate kset key_num and intra-segment bounds
commit f11deb032fd84081e7831cffcba895d893054a22 upstream. Two more fields decoded from the cache device go unbounded. The kset key_num drives cache_kset_crc() and the replay loop in cache_replay(), the writeback worker and the GC worker, but only the magic and a fixed-seed CRC are checked first, so a non-last kset whose key_num exceeds the PCACHE_KSET_KEYS_MAX buffer reads past its end before the CRC compare. A key's intra-segment offset and length in cache_key_decode() are taken verbatim, so a key running past its segment is replayed into the cache tree and the data CRC check and every later read hit then copy adjacent persistent memory into the caller's bio -- an out-of-bounds read that leaks to user space. Both fields are controlled by whoever supplies the cache device (CAP_SYS_ADMIN); the CRC seed is public. Add kset_onmedia_valid() to bound key_num before any kset read, and reject a key whose offset plus length, computed in 64 bits, exceeds the segment data_size. Valid metadata is unaffected. Fixes: 1d57628ff95b ("dm-pcache: add persistent cache target in device-mapper") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@proton.me> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache.h21
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_gc.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_key.c10
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_writeback.c8
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache.h b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache.h
index 27613b56be54..afc112b79496 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache.h
@@ -491,6 +491,27 @@ static inline u32 cache_key_data_crc(struct pcache_cache_key *key)
return crc32c(PCACHE_CRC_SEED, data, key->len);
}
+/**
+ * kset_onmedia_valid - Validate a kset header read from the cache device.
+ * @kset_onmedia: Pointer to the kset copied from on-media metadata.
+ *
+ * The magic and CRC are attacker-computable (fixed public seed). A non-last
+ * kset stores key_num keys inline, and cache_kset_crc() and the replay loop
+ * read struct_size(.., data, key_num) bytes from a buffer sized for
+ * PCACHE_KSET_KEYS_MAX keys, so key_num must be bounded before any such use.
+ */
+static inline bool kset_onmedia_valid(struct pcache_cache_kset_onmedia *kset_onmedia)
+{
+ if (kset_onmedia->magic != PCACHE_KSET_MAGIC)
+ return false;
+
+ if (!(kset_onmedia->flags & PCACHE_KSET_FLAGS_LAST) &&
+ kset_onmedia->key_num > PCACHE_KSET_KEYS_MAX)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
static inline u32 cache_kset_crc(struct pcache_cache_kset_onmedia *kset_onmedia)
{
u32 crc_size;
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_gc.c b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_gc.c
index 94f8b276a021..be7470e0a63e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_gc.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_gc.c
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ static bool need_gc(struct pcache_cache *cache, struct pcache_cache_pos *dirty_t
return false;
}
- /* Check if kset_onmedia is corrupted */
- if (kset_onmedia->magic != PCACHE_KSET_MAGIC) {
- pcache_dev_debug(pcache, "gc error: magic is not as expected. key_tail: %u:%u magic: %llx, expected: %llx\n",
+ /* Reject a corrupted or out-of-bounds kset before reading its keys */
+ if (!kset_onmedia_valid(kset_onmedia)) {
+ pcache_dev_debug(pcache, "gc error: invalid kset. key_tail: %u:%u magic: %llx, key_num: %u\n",
key_tail->cache_seg->cache_seg_id, key_tail->seg_off,
- kset_onmedia->magic, PCACHE_KSET_MAGIC);
+ kset_onmedia->magic, kset_onmedia->key_num);
return false;
}
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_key.c b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_key.c
index 2b77e121f89b..fcb2c8e356b3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_key.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_key.c
@@ -97,6 +97,14 @@ int cache_key_decode(struct pcache_cache *cache,
key->cache_pos.cache_seg = &cache->segments[key_onmedia->cache_seg_id];
key->cache_pos.seg_off = key_onmedia->cache_seg_off;
+ if ((u64)key->cache_pos.seg_off + key->len >
+ key->cache_pos.cache_seg->segment.data_size) {
+ pcache_dev_err(pcache, "key seg_off %u + len %u exceeds segment data size %u\n",
+ key->cache_pos.seg_off, key->len,
+ key->cache_pos.cache_seg->segment.data_size);
+ return -EIO;
+ }
+
key->seg_gen = key_onmedia->seg_gen;
key->flags = key_onmedia->flags;
@@ -778,7 +786,7 @@ int cache_replay(struct pcache_cache *cache)
goto out;
}
- if (kset_onmedia->magic != PCACHE_KSET_MAGIC ||
+ if (!kset_onmedia_valid(kset_onmedia) ||
kset_onmedia->crc != cache_kset_crc(kset_onmedia)) {
break;
}
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_writeback.c b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_writeback.c
index 87a82b3fe836..238c3f97e8ce 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_writeback.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-pcache/cache_writeback.c
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ static inline bool is_cache_clean(struct pcache_cache *cache, struct pcache_cach
return true;
}
- /* Check if the magic number matches the expected value */
- if (kset_onmedia->magic != PCACHE_KSET_MAGIC) {
- pcache_dev_debug(pcache, "dirty_tail: %u:%u magic: %llx, not expected: %llx\n",
+ /* Reject a corrupted or out-of-bounds kset before reading its keys */
+ if (!kset_onmedia_valid(kset_onmedia)) {
+ pcache_dev_debug(pcache, "dirty_tail: %u:%u invalid kset magic: %llx, key_num: %u\n",
dirty_tail->cache_seg->cache_seg_id, dirty_tail->seg_off,
- kset_onmedia->magic, PCACHE_KSET_MAGIC);
+ kset_onmedia->magic, kset_onmedia->key_num);
return true;
}