[PATCH] firewire: cdev: fix information leak

[Stefan Richter]

A userspace client got to see uninitialized stack-allocated memory if it
specified an _IOC_READ type of ioctl and an argument size larger than
expected by firewire-core's ioctl handlers (but not larger than the
core's union ioctl_arg).

Fix this by clearing the requested buffer size to zero, but only at _IOR
ioctls.  This way, there is almost no runtime penalty to legit ioctls.
The only legit _IOR is FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER with 12...16 bytes to
memset.

[Another way to fix this would be strict checking of argument size (and
possibly direction) vs. command number.  However, we then need a lookup
table, and we need to allow for slight size deviations in case of 32bit
userland on 64bit kernel.]

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
@@ -1346,41 +1346,43 @@ static int (* const ioctl_handlers[])(st
 static int dispatch_ioctl(struct client *client,
 			  unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
 {
 	union ioctl_arg buffer;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (fw_device_is_shutdown(client->device))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	if (_IOC_TYPE(cmd) != '#' ||
 	    _IOC_NR(cmd) >= ARRAY_SIZE(ioctl_handlers))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_WRITE) {
-		if (_IOC_SIZE(cmd) > sizeof(buffer) ||
-		    copy_from_user(&buffer, arg, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)))
+	if (_IOC_SIZE(cmd) > sizeof(buffer))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) == _IOC_READ)
+		memset(&buffer, 0, _IOC_SIZE(cmd));
+
+	if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_WRITE)
+		if (copy_from_user(&buffer, arg, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)))
 			return -EFAULT;
-	}
 
 	ret = ioctl_handlers[_IOC_NR(cmd)](client, &buffer);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_READ) {
-		if (_IOC_SIZE(cmd) > sizeof(buffer) ||
-		    copy_to_user(arg, &buffer, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)))
+	if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_READ)
+		if (copy_to_user(arg, &buffer, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)))
 			return -EFAULT;
-	}
 
 	return ret;
 }
 
 static long fw_device_op_ioctl(struct file *file,
 			       unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	return dispatch_ioctl(file->private_data, cmd, (void __user *)arg);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 static long fw_device_op_compat_ioctl(struct file *file,
 				      unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)

-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==-=- -=-- --==-
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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