[tip:ras/core] x86/MCE: Fix stack out-of-bounds write in mce-inject.c: Flags_read()

From: tip-bot for Luck, Tony
Date: Sun May 06 2018 - 06:52:58 EST


Commit-ID: 985c78d3ff8e9c74450fa2bb08eb55e680d999ca
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/985c78d3ff8e9c74450fa2bb08eb55e680d999ca
Author: Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:37:08 -0700
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 6 May 2018 12:46:39 +0200

x86/MCE: Fix stack out-of-bounds write in mce-inject.c: Flags_read()

Each of the strings that we want to put into the buf[MAX_FLAG_OPT_SIZE]
in flags_read() is two characters long. But the sprintf() adds
a trailing newline and will add a terminating NUL byte. So
MAX_FLAG_OPT_SIZE needs to be 4.

sprintf() calls vsnprintf() and *that* does return:

" * The return value is the number of characters which would
* be generated for the given input, excluding the trailing
* '\0', as per ISO C99."

Note the "excluding".

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180427163707.ktaiysvbk3yhk4wm@agluck-desk
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
index 475cb4f5f14f..c805a06e14c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static struct dentry *dfs_inj;

static u8 n_banks;

-#define MAX_FLAG_OPT_SIZE 3
+#define MAX_FLAG_OPT_SIZE 4
#define NBCFG 0x44

enum injection_type {