Re: [PATCH 1/1] v4l: ioctl: Fix memory leak in video_usercopy

[Hans Verkuil]

On 20/12/2020 12:06, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> When an IOCTL with argument size larger than 128 that also used array
> arguments were handled, two memory allocations were made but alas, only
> the latter one of them was released. This happened because there was only
> a single local variable to hold such a temporary allocation.
> 
> Fix this by adding separate variables to hold the pointers to the
> temporary allocations.
> 
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: syzbot+1115e79c8df6472c612b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: d14e6d76ebf7 ("[media] v4l: Add multi-planar ioctl handling code")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

	Hans

> ---
>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 31 +++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
> index 3198abdd538ce..f42a779948779 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
> @@ -3283,7 +3283,7 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int orig_cmd, unsigned long arg,
>  	       v4l2_kioctl func)
>  {
>  	char	sbuf[128];
> -	void    *mbuf = NULL;
> +	void    *mbuf = NULL, *array_buf = NULL;
>  	void	*parg = (void *)arg;
>  	long	err  = -EINVAL;
>  	bool	has_array_args;
> @@ -3318,27 +3318,21 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int orig_cmd, unsigned long arg,
>  	has_array_args = err;
>  
>  	if (has_array_args) {
> -		/*
> -		 * When adding new types of array args, make sure that the
> -		 * parent argument to ioctl (which contains the pointer to the
> -		 * array) fits into sbuf (so that mbuf will still remain
> -		 * unused up to here).
> -		 */
> -		mbuf = kvmalloc(array_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		array_buf = kvmalloc(array_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		err = -ENOMEM;
> -		if (NULL == mbuf)
> +		if (array_buf == NULL)
>  			goto out_array_args;
>  		err = -EFAULT;
>  		if (in_compat_syscall())
> -			err = v4l2_compat_get_array_args(file, mbuf, user_ptr,
> -							 array_size, orig_cmd,
> -							 parg);
> +			err = v4l2_compat_get_array_args(file, array_buf,
> +							 user_ptr, array_size,
> +							 orig_cmd, parg);
>  		else
> -			err = copy_from_user(mbuf, user_ptr, array_size) ?
> +			err = copy_from_user(array_buf, user_ptr, array_size) ?
>  								-EFAULT : 0;
>  		if (err)
>  			goto out_array_args;
> -		*kernel_ptr = mbuf;
> +		*kernel_ptr = array_buf;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Handles IOCTL */
> @@ -3360,12 +3354,14 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int orig_cmd, unsigned long arg,
>  		if (in_compat_syscall()) {
>  			int put_err;
>  
> -			put_err = v4l2_compat_put_array_args(file, user_ptr, mbuf,
> -							     array_size, orig_cmd,
> +			put_err = v4l2_compat_put_array_args(file, user_ptr,
> +							     array_buf,
> +							     array_size,
> +							     orig_cmd,
>  							     parg);
>  			if (put_err)
>  				err = put_err;
> -		} else if (copy_to_user(user_ptr, mbuf, array_size)) {
> +		} else if (copy_to_user(user_ptr, array_buf, array_size)) {
>  			err = -EFAULT;
>  		}
>  		goto out_array_args;
> @@ -3381,6 +3377,7 @@ video_usercopy(struct file *file, unsigned int orig_cmd, unsigned long arg,
>  	if (video_put_user((void __user *)arg, parg, cmd, orig_cmd))
>  		err = -EFAULT;
>  out:
> +	kvfree(array_buf);
>  	kvfree(mbuf);
>  	return err;
>  }
>