Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Fix potential buffer overflows

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Aug 03 2021 - 14:31:01 EST


On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 9:26 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 9:21 PM Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like pmc_core_get_low_power_modes() mixes up modes and
> > priorities. In addition to invalid behavior, potentially this can
> > cause buffer overflows since the driver reads priorities from the
> > register and then it uses them as indexes for array lpm_priority
> > that can contain 8 elements at most. The patch swaps modes and
> > priorities.
> >
> > Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Seems legit.

Hold on, but then it follows with another loop where actually it reads
modes by priority index. Can you elaborate what exactly is the problem
you think?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko