[lvc-project] [PATCH 5.10 1/3] string.h: add array-wrappers for (v)memdup_user()

[Roman Demidov]

From: Philipp Stanner <pstanner at redhat.com>

commit 313ebe47d75558511aa1237b6e35c663b5c0ec6f upstream.

Currently, user array duplications are sometimes done without an
overflow check. Sometimes the checks are done manually; sometimes the
array size is calculated with array_size() and sometimes by calculating
n * size directly in code.

Introduce wrappers for arrays for memdup_user() and vmemdup_user() to
provide a standardized and safe way for duplicating user arrays.

This is both for new code as well as replacing usage of (v)memdup_user()
in existing code that uses, e.g., n * size to calculate array sizes.

Suggested-by: David Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230920123612.16914-3-pstanner@redhat.com
Stable-dep-of: c833d6c7199c ("drm/amdgpu: Limit BO list entry count to prevent resource exhaustion")
Signed-off-by: Roman Demidov <roman.demidov.nn at gmail.com>
---
Backport fix for CVE-2026-23468

 include/linux/string.h | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 98b053d9c700..85efd2b738ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>	/* for inline */
 #include <linux/types.h>	/* for size_t */
 #include <linux/stddef.h>	/* for NULL */
+#include <linux/err.h>		/* for ERR_PTR() */
+#include <linux/overflow.h>	/* for check_mul_overflow() */
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/string.h>
 
@@ -13,6 +15,44 @@ extern void *memdup_user(const void __user *, size_t);
 extern void *vmemdup_user(const void __user *, size_t);
 extern void *memdup_user_nul(const void __user *, size_t);
 
+/**
+ * memdup_array_user - duplicate array from user space
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @n: number of array members to copy
+ * @size: size of one array member
+ *
+ * Return: an ERR_PTR() on failure. Result is physically
+ * contiguous, to be freed by kfree().
+ */
+static inline void *memdup_array_user(const void __user *src, size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t nbytes;
+
+	if (check_mul_overflow(n, size, &nbytes))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOVERFLOW);
+
+	return memdup_user(src, nbytes);
+}
+
+/**
+ * vmemdup_array_user - duplicate array from user space
+ * @src: source address in user space
+ * @n: number of array members to copy
+ * @size: size of one array member
+ *
+ * Return: an ERR_PTR() on failure. Result may be not
+ * physically contiguous. Use kvfree() to free.
+ */
+static inline void *vmemdup_array_user(const void __user *src, size_t n, size_t size)
+{
+	size_t nbytes;
+
+	if (check_mul_overflow(n, size, &nbytes))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOVERFLOW);
+
+	return vmemdup_user(src, nbytes);
+}
+
 /*
  * Include machine specific inline routines
  */
-- 
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