[PATCH v11 01/36] block: Fix start and length check added to iov_iter_extract_bvecs()
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Sep 2 10:33:13 PDT 2026
Commit 14b007e17881 added an address check using iter_iov_addr() and a
length check using iter_iov_len() to iov_iter_extract_bvecs(), but these
cannot be used so and are unsafe in this circumstance as the functions have
hardwired assumptions about the iterator type. They should only be used
with ITER_UBUF or ITER_IOVEC-type iterators; they shouldn't be used with
ITER_BVEC, ITER_KVEC, ITER_FOLIOQ, ITER_XARRAY or ITER_DISCARD iterators.
This proves to be a problem for cachefiles as an iterator of type
ITER_FOLIOQ is passed and iter_iov_addr() and iter_iov_len() both
malfunction because iter->__iov in iter_iov() is not pointing to an iovec
array.
Fix this by using iov_iter_alignment() instead.
Fixes: 14b007e17881 ("block: validate user space vectors during extraction")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare at kernel.org>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-block at vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
lib/iov_iter.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 6665372ecf71..c489569a5815 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -1921,15 +1921,22 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_extract_bvecs(struct iov_iter *iter, struct bio_vec *bv,
unsigned short max_vecs, unsigned mem_align_mask,
iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags)
{
- unsigned long start = (unsigned long)iter_iov_addr(iter);
unsigned short entries_left = max_vecs - *nr_vecs;
unsigned short nr_pages, i = 0;
size_t left, offset, len;
struct page **pages;
ssize_t size;
- if ((start | iter_iov_len(iter)) & mem_align_mask)
+ if (likely(iter_is_ubuf(iter) ||
+ iter_is_iovec(iter) ||
+ iov_iter_is_kvec(iter))) {
+ unsigned long start = (unsigned long)iter_iov_addr(iter);
+
+ if ((start | iter_iov_len(iter)) & mem_align_mask)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ } else if (iov_iter_alignment(iter) & mem_align_mask) {
return -EINVAL;
+ }
/*
* Move page array up in the allocated memory for the bio vecs as far as
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