[PATCH] kobject: Fix global-out-of-bounds in kobject_action_type()

From: Xia Fukun
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 01:40:09 EST


The following c language code can trigger KASAN's global variable
out-of-bounds access error in kobject_action_type():

int main() {
int fd;
char *filename = "/sys/block/ram12/uevent";
char str[86] = "offline";
int len = 0x56;

fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY);
if (fd == -1) {
printf("open");
exit(1);
}

if (write(fd, str, len) == -1) {
printf("write");
exit(1);
}

close(fd);
return 0;
}

Function kobject_action_type() receives the input parameters buf and count,
where count is the length of the string buf.

In the use case we provided, count is 86, the count_first is 85.
Buf points to a string with a length of 86, and its first seven
characters are "offline".
In line 87 of the code, kobject_actions[action] is the string "offline"
with the length of 7,an out-of-boundary access will appear:

kobject_actions[action][85].

Modify the comparison logic to determine whether count_first is equal to
the length of string kobject_actions[action]. This can fix the problem.

Fixes: f36776fafbaa ("kobject: support passing in variables for synthetic uevents")
Signed-off-by: Xia Fukun <xiafukun@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index 7c44b7ae4c5c..668346bd28fa 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int kobject_action_type(const char *buf, size_t count,
for (action = 0; action < ARRAY_SIZE(kobject_actions); action++) {
if (strncmp(kobject_actions[action], buf, count_first) != 0)
continue;
- if (kobject_actions[action][count_first] != '\0')
+ if (strlen(kobject_actions[action]) != count_first)
continue;
if (args)
*args = args_start;
--
2.17.1