[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 01/53] [4.2-stable only] fix backport "IB/security: restrict use of the write() interface"

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue May 24 2016 - 13:55:40 EST


4.2.8-ckt11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>

Upstream commit e6bd18f57aad (IB/security: Restrict use of the write()
interface) handled the cases for all drivers in the current upstream
kernel. The ipath driver had recently been deprecated and moved to
staging, and then removed entirely. It had the same security flaw as
the qib driver. Fix that up with this separate patch.

Note: The ipath driver only supports hardware that ended production
over 10 years ago, so there should be none of this hardware still
present in the wild.

Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
index 450d159..f63ad70 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>

+#include <rdma/ib.h>
+
#include "ipath_kernel.h"
#include "ipath_common.h"
#include "ipath_user_sdma.h"
@@ -2244,6 +2246,9 @@ static ssize_t ipath_write(struct file *fp, const char __user *data,
ssize_t ret = 0;
void *dest;

+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ib_safe_file_access(fp)))
+ return -EACCES;
+
if (count < sizeof(cmd.type)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto bail;
--
2.7.4