Re: [PATCH] Media: video: uvc: integer overflow in uvc_ioctl_ctrl_map()

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

On 29-11-2011 23:22, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Haogang,
>
> On Tuesday 29 November 2011 22:32:25 Haogang Chen wrote:
> > There is a potential integer overflow in uvc_ioctl_ctrl_map(). When a
> > large xmap->menu_count is passed from the userspace, the subsequent call
> > to kmalloc() will allocate a buffer smaller than expected.
> > map->menu_count and map->menu_info would later be used in a loop (e.g.
> > in uvc_query_v4l2_ctrl), which leads to out-of-bound access.
> >
> > The patch checks the ioctl argument and returns -EINVAL for zero or too
> > large values in xmap->menu_count.
>
> Thanks for the patch.

I'm assuming that either one of you will re-send the patches with the
pointed changes, so, I'm marking this one with "changes requested" at
patchwork.

> > Signed-off-by: Haogang Chen<haogangchen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c |    6 ++++++
> >   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> > b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c index dadf11f..9a180d6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> > @@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ static int uvc_ioctl_ctrl_map(struct uvc_video_chain
> > *chain, break;
> >
> >   	case V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_MENU:
> > +		if (xmap->menu_count == 0 ||
> > +		    xmap->menu_count>  INT_MAX / sizeof(*map->menu_info)) {
>
> I'd like to prevent excessive memory consumption by limiting the number of
> menu entries, similarly to how the driver limits the number of mappings.
> Defining UVC_MAX_CONTROL_MENU_ENTRIES to 32 in uvcvideo.h should be a
> reasonable value.
>
> > +			kfree(map);
> > +			return -EINVAL;
>
> I'd rather do
>
> 	ret = -EINVAL;
> 	goto done;
>
> to centralize error handling.
>
> If you're fine with both changes I can modify the patch, there's no need to
> resubmit.
>
> > +		}
> > +
> >   		size = xmap->menu_count * sizeof(*map->menu_info);
> >   		map->menu_info = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> >   		if (map->menu_info == NULL) {

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