Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/acr: Fix undefined behavior in nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl()

[Lyude Paul]

Sigh-thank you for catching this - I had totally forgot about the umn.edu ban.
I pushed this already but I will go ahead and send a revert for this patch.
Will cc you on it as well.

On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 11:18 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:58:55AM +0800, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> > In nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl(), the return value of kmalloc() is directly
> > passed to memcpy(), which could lead to undefined behavior on failure
> > of kmalloc().
> > 
> > Fix this bug by using kmemdup() instead of kmalloc()+memcpy().
> > 
> > This bug was found by a static analyzer.
> > 
> > Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
> > and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.
> > 
> > Fixes: 22dcda45a3d1 ("drm/nouveau/acr: implement new subdev to replace
> > "secure boot"")
> > Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent 
> > security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths 
> > and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the
> > current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs. 
> > 
> > Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
> > positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
> > the bug.
> > 
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c | 9 +++++----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > index 667fa016496e..a6ea89a5d51a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > @@ -142,11 +142,12 @@ nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl(struct nvkm_acr *acr, const
> > char *name, int ver,
> >  
> >         hsfw->imem_size = desc->code_size;
> >         hsfw->imem_tag = desc->start_tag;
> > -       hsfw->imem = kmalloc(desc->code_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > -       memcpy(hsfw->imem, data + desc->code_off, desc->code_size);
> > -
> > +       hsfw->imem = kmemdup(data + desc->code_off, desc->code_size,
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> >         nvkm_firmware_put(fw);
> > -       return 0;
> > +       if (!hsfw->imem)
> > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > +       else
> > +               return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> >  int
> > -- 
> > 2.25.1
> > 
> 
> As stated before, umn.edu is still not allowed to contribute to the
> Linux kernel.  Please work with your administration to resolve this
> issue.
> 

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat