Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] media/v4l2-core: Fix kernel-infoleak in video_put_user()

[Peilin Ye]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:25:16AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:28 AM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > video_put_user() is copying uninitialized stack memory to userspace due
> > to the compiler not initializing holes in the structures declared on the
> > stack. Fix it by initializing `ev32` and `vb32` using memset().
> >
> > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+79d751604cb6f29fbf59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=79d751604cb6f29fbf59
> > Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks a lot for addressing this! I now see that I actually created a similar
> bugfix for it back in January, but for some reason that got stuck in my
> backlog and I never wrote a proper description for it or sent it out to the
> list, sorry about that. I would hope we could find a way to have either
> the compiler or sparse warn if we copy uninitialized data to user space,
> but we now don't even check for that within the kernel any more.

I am glad to be of help!

> I would suggest adding these tags to the patch, to ensure it gets backported
> to stable kernels as needed:
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 1a6c0b36dd19 ("media: v4l2-core: fix VIDIOC_DQEVENT for time64 ABI")
> Fixes: 577c89b0ce72 ("media: v4l2-core: fix v4l2_buffer handling for
> time64 ABI")
> 
> In addition to
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Sure, I will send a v4 soon. Thank you for reviewing the patch.

Peilin Ye