RE: [PATCH] firmware: xilinx: fix debugfs write handler

From: Jolly Shah
Date: Tue Mar 05 2019 - 13:57:13 EST


Acked-by: Jolly Shah <jollys@xxxxxxxxxx>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 1:43 PM
> To: Michal Simek <michals@xxxxxxxxxx>; jannh@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Rajan Vaja <RAJANV@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jolly Shah <JOLLYS@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-
> arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] firmware: xilinx: fix debugfs write handler
>
> - Userspace wants to write a string with `len` bytes, not counting the
> terminating NULL, so we should allocate `len+1` bytes. It looks like the
> current code relied on having a nullbyte directly behind `kern_buff`,
> which happens to work reliably as long as `len` isn't one of the kmalloc
> size classes.
> - strncpy_from_user() is completely wrong here; userspace is giving us a
> (not necessarily null-terminated) buffer and its length.
> strncpy_from_user() is for cases in which we don't know the length.
> - Don't let broken userspace allocate arbitrarily big kmalloc allocations.
>
> Just use memdup_user_nul(), which is designed precisely for things like
> this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> WARNING: completely untested patch
>
> drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp-debug.c | 15 ++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp-debug.c
> b/drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp-debug.c
> index 2771df6df379..90b66cdbfd58 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp-debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/xilinx/zynqmp-debug.c
> @@ -163,21 +163,14 @@ static ssize_t zynqmp_pm_debugfs_api_write(struct
> file *file,
>
> strcpy(debugfs_buf, "");
>
> - if (*off != 0 || len == 0)
> + if (*off != 0 || len <= 1 || len > PAGE_SIZE - 1)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - kern_buff = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!kern_buff)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> + kern_buff = memdup_user_nul(ptr, len);
> + if (IS_ERR(kern_buff))
> + return PTR_ERR(kern_buff);
> tmp_buff = kern_buff;
>
> - ret = strncpy_from_user(kern_buff, ptr, len);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - ret = -EFAULT;
> - goto err;
> - }
> -
> /* Read the API name from a user request */
> pm_api_req = strsep(&kern_buff, " ");
>
> --
> 2.21.0.rc0.258.g878e2cd30e-goog