Re: [PATCH] uverbs: prevent potential underflow

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 15:44:29 EST


On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 08:23:37AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The issue is in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_std_types_cq.c in the
> UVERBS_HANDLER(UVERBS_METHOD_CQ_CREATE) function. We check that:
>
> if (attr.comp_vector >= attrs->ufile->device->num_comp_vectors) {
>
> But we don't check that "attr.comp_vector" whether negative. It
> could potentially lead to an array underflow. My concern would be where
> cq->vector is used in the create_cq() function from the cxgb4 driver.
>
> Fixes: 9ee79fce3642 ("IB/core: Add completion queue (cq) object actions")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
> index 1e5aeb39f774..63f7f7db5902 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs.h
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ ib_uverbs_init_udata_buf_or_null(struct ib_udata *udata,
>
> struct ib_uverbs_device {
> atomic_t refcount;
> - int num_comp_vectors;
> + u32 num_comp_vectors;
> struct completion comp;
> struct device dev;
> /* First group for device attributes, NULL terminated array */

I would have expected you to change struct ib_cq_init_attr ? Or at
least both..

This is actually a bug as the type of
UVERBS_ATTR_CREATE_CQ_COMP_VECTOR for userspace is u32:

UVERBS_ATTR_PTR_IN(UVERBS_ATTR_CREATE_CQ_COMP_VECTOR,
UVERBS_ATTR_TYPE(u32),
UA_MANDATORY),

But we are stuffing it into a int:

ret = uverbs_copy_from(&attr.comp_vector, attrs,
UVERBS_ATTR_CREATE_CQ_COMP_VECTOR);

So very large values will become negative and switching
num_comp_vectors to u32 won't help??

Jason