Re: [PATCH] net: tehuti: don't process data if it has not been copied from userspace

[David Miller]

From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:46:59 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The array data is only populated with valid information from userspace
> if cmd != SIOCDEVPRIVATE, other cases the array contains garbage on
> the stack. The subsequent switch statement acts on a subcommand in
> data[0] which could be any garbage value if cmd is SIOCDEVPRIVATE which
> seems incorrect to me.  Instead, just return EOPNOTSUPP for the case
> where cmd == SIOCDEVPRIVATE to avoid this issue.
> 
> As a side note, I suspect that the original intention of the code
> was for this ioctl to work just for cmd == SIOCDEVPRIVATE (and the
> current logic is reversed). However, I don't wont to change the current
> semantics in case any userspace code relies on this existing behaviour.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#139647 ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah this is the safest change for now, applied.

Francois added the register address range checking a year after the
driver was added, so maybe someone used this facility.

It should have been done via ethtool getregs...