Medium · published March 6, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control()
syzbot is reporting too large allocation warning at tomoyo_write_control(),
for one can write a very very long line without new line character. To fix
this warning, I use __GFP_NOWARN rather than checking for KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE,
for practically a valid line should be always shorter than 32KB where the
"too small to fail" memory-allocation rule applies.
One might try to write a valid line that is longer than 32KB, but such
request will likely fail with -ENOMEM. Therefore, I feel that separately
returning -EINVAL when a line is longer than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE is redundant.
There is no need to distinguish over-32KB and over-KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | < 5.4.291 | 5.4.291 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.235 | 5.10.235 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.179 | 5.15.179 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.129 | 6.1.129 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.78 | 6.6.78 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.14 | 6.12.14 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.13, < 6.13.3 | 6.13.3 |