[PATCH 6.1 0077/1191] eCryptfs: bound the packet-length peek to the user buffer

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 15:28:48
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Pengpeng Hou <redacted>

commit 95540462e630edbc8504e9537d16453d6942d143 upstream.

ecryptfs_miscdev_write() accepts the minimum one-byte packet-length
encoding, but always copies the maximum two-byte encoding from userspace
before parsing it. A six-byte message therefore reads one byte beyond the
submitted user buffer.

Zero-initialize the peek buffer and copy only the packet-length bytes
present. The existing exact packet-size check still rejects truncated
two-byte encodings after the parser determines their encoded length.

Fixes: 8bf2debd5f7b ("eCryptfs: introduce device handle for userspace daemon communications")
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Pengpeng Hou <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ ecryptfs_miscdev_write(struct file *file
 	u32 seq;
 	size_t packet_size, packet_size_length;
 	char *data;
-	unsigned char packet_size_peek[ECRYPTFS_MAX_PKT_LEN_SIZE];
+	unsigned char packet_size_peek[ECRYPTFS_MAX_PKT_LEN_SIZE] = { };
 	ssize_t rc;
 
 	if (count == 0) {
@@ -373,7 +373,8 @@ ecryptfs_miscdev_write(struct file *file
 	}
 
 	if (copy_from_user(packet_size_peek, &buf[PKT_LEN_OFFSET],
-			   sizeof(packet_size_peek))) {
+			   min_t(size_t, count - PKT_LEN_OFFSET,
+				 sizeof(packet_size_peek)))) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Error while inspecting packet size\n",
 		       __func__);
 		return -EFAULT;

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