Re: [PATCH V2] Fix unsafe memory access by memcmp

From: Pavel Skripkin
Date: Mon Apr 04 2022 - 17:51:12 EST


Hi Charlie,

On 4/4/22 05:52, Charlie Sands wrote:
This patch fixes sparse warnings about the memcmp function unsafely
accessing userspace memory without first copying it to kernel space.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Sands <sandsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

V2: Fixed checkpatch.pl warning and changed variable name as suggested
by Greg K. H. and improved error checking on the "copy_from_user" function as
suggested by Pavel Skripkin.


You did not improved error handling of copy_from_user() as I suggested. if (expr) and if (expr != 0) are exactly the same

drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index 7df213856d66..4b4eec2bde96 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -3233,23 +3233,28 @@ static int rtw_p2p_get(struct net_device *dev,
struct iw_request_info *info,
union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *extra)
{
- if (!memcmp(wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
+ char wrqu_data[9];
+
+ if (copy_from_user(wrqu_data, wrqu->data.pointer, 9) != 0)
+ return 0;
+

I've suggested to return -EFAULT here




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

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