Re: [PATCH] ASoC: max98390: Fix potential crash during param fw loading

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Jun 03 2020 - 07:42:47 EST


On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 11:37:44AM +0000, Steve Lee wrote:

> > This is now reading the size out of the header of the file which is good but it
> > should also validate that the file is big enough to have this much data in it,
> > otherwise it's possible to read beyond the end of the firmware file (eg, if it got
> > truncated somehow). Previously the code used the size of the file read from disk
> > so that wasn't an issue.

> Thanks for quick comment. Can this case cover by below line?
> + if (fw->size < MAX98390_DSM_PARAM_MIN_SIZE) {
> + dev_err(component->dev,
> + "param fw is invalid.\n");
> + goto err_alloc;
> + }

No, that doesn't cover all of it - the case I'm concerned about is the
case where we've got enough data for the header but the payload is
truncated. You need a check that param_size + _PAYLOAD_OFFSET is less
than fw->size as well.

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