linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.16 117/272] tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:30 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Frank Asseg <frank.asseg@...ecthunter.net>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.16 117/272] tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault

4.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Frank Asseg <frank.asseg@...ecthunter.net>

[ Upstream commit 6c59f64b7ecf2bccbe73931d7d573d66ed13b537 ]

Fixes a segfault occurring when e.g. <TAB> is pressed multiple times in the
ncurses tmon application. The segfault is caused by incrementing
cur_thermal_record in the main function without checking if it's value reached
NR_THERMAL_RECORD immediately. Since the boundary check only occurred in
update_thermal_data a race condition existed, which lead to an attempted read
beyond the last element of the trec array.

The fix was implemented by moving the cur_thermal_record incrementation to the
update_thermal_data function using a temporary variable on which the boundary
condition is checked before updating cur_thread_record, so that the variable is
never incremented beyond the trec array's boundary.

It seems the segfault does not occur on every machine: On a HP EliteBook G4 the
segfault happens, while it does not happen on a Thinkpad T540p.

Signed-off-by: Frank Asseg <frank.asseg@...ecthunter.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/thermal/tmon/sysfs.c |   12 +++++++-----
 tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c  |    1 -
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/thermal/tmon/sysfs.c
+++ b/tools/thermal/tmon/sysfs.c
@@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ int zone_instance_to_index(int zone_inst
 int update_thermal_data()
 {
 	int i;
+	int next_thermal_record = cur_thermal_record + 1;
 	char tz_name[256];
 	static unsigned long samples;
 
@@ -495,9 +496,9 @@ int update_thermal_data()
 	}
 
 	/* circular buffer for keeping historic data */
-	if (cur_thermal_record >= NR_THERMAL_RECORDS)
-		cur_thermal_record = 0;
-	gettimeofday(&trec[cur_thermal_record].tv, NULL);
+	if (next_thermal_record >= NR_THERMAL_RECORDS)
+		next_thermal_record = 0;
+	gettimeofday(&trec[next_thermal_record].tv, NULL);
 	if (tmon_log) {
 		fprintf(tmon_log, "%lu ", ++samples);
 		fprintf(tmon_log, "%3.1f ", p_param.t_target);
@@ -507,11 +508,12 @@ int update_thermal_data()
 		snprintf(tz_name, 256, "%s/%s%d", THERMAL_SYSFS, TZONE,
 			ptdata.tzi[i].instance);
 		sysfs_get_ulong(tz_name, "temp",
-				&trec[cur_thermal_record].temp[i]);
+				&trec[next_thermal_record].temp[i]);
 		if (tmon_log)
 			fprintf(tmon_log, "%lu ",
-				trec[cur_thermal_record].temp[i]/1000);
+				trec[next_thermal_record].temp[i] / 1000);
 	}
+	cur_thermal_record = next_thermal_record;
 	for (i = 0; i < ptdata.nr_cooling_dev; i++) {
 		char cdev_name[256];
 		unsigned long val;
--- a/tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c
+++ b/tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.c
@@ -336,7 +336,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			show_data_w();
 			show_cooling_device();
 		}
-		cur_thermal_record++;
 		time_elapsed += ticktime;
 		controller_handler(trec[0].temp[target_tz_index] / 1000,
 				&yk);