[PATCH v4] firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length toavoid buffer overflow

[Stefan Richter]

From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>

Check that the data length of a write quadlet request actually is large
enough for a quadlet.  Otherwise, fw_fill_request could access the four
bytes after the end of the outbound_transaction_event structure.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>

Modification of Clemens' change:  Consolidate the check in
init_request() which is used by the affected ioctl_send_request() and
ioctl_send_broadcast_request() and the unaffected
ioctl_send_stream_packet(), to save a few lines of code.

Note, since struct outbound_transaction_event *e is slab-allocated, such
an out-of-bounds access won't hit unallocated memory but may result in a
(virtually impossible to exploit) information disclosure.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Index: b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
@@ -564,6 +564,10 @@ static int init_request(struct client *c
 	    (request->length > 4096 || request->length > 512 << speed))
 		return -EIO;
 
+	if (request->tcode == TCODE_WRITE_QUADLET_REQUEST &&
+	    request->length < 4)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	e = kmalloc(sizeof(*e) + request->length, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (e == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;

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

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