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Message-ID: <a3168303-05d9-0ef7-f33b-2b1e3db6da47@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 22:53:28 -0600
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>,
Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>,
alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Xiubo Li <Xiubo.Lee@...il.com>,
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] ASoC: imx-audmux: change snprintf to scnprintf for
possible overflow
Hi Willy,
On 1/14/19 9:27 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> From: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@...il.com>
>
> Change snprintf to scnprintf. There are generally two cases where using
> snprintf causes problems.
>
> 1) Uses of size += snprintf(buf, SIZE - size, fmt, ...)
> In this case, if snprintf would have written more characters than what the
> buffer size (SIZE) is, then size will end up larger than SIZE. In later
> uses of snprintf, SIZE - size will result in a negative number, leading
> to problems. Note that size might already be too large by using
> size = snprintf before the code reaches a case of size += snprintf.
>
> 2) If size is ultimately used as a length parameter for a copy back to user
> space, then it will potentially allow for a buffer overflow and information
> disclosure when size is greater than SIZE. When the size is used to index
> the buffer directly, we can have memory corruption. This also means when
> size = snprintf... is used, it may also cause problems since size may become
> large. Copying to userspace is mitigated by the HARDENED_USERCOPY kernel
> configuration.
>
> The solution to these issues is to use scnprintf which returns the number of
> characters actually written to the buffer, so the size variable will never
> exceed SIZE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@...il.com>
> Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> Cc: Xiubo Li <Xiubo.Lee@...il.com>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
> Acked-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>
You are still missing some people and mailing lists:
$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nokeywords --nogit --nogit-fallback sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c
Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org> (maintainer:FREESCALE SOC SOUND DRIVERS)
Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com> (maintainer:FREESCALE SOC SOUND DRIVERS)
Xiubo Li <Xiubo.Lee@...il.com> (maintainer:FREESCALE SOC SOUND DRIVERS)
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com> (reviewer:FREESCALE SOC SOUND DRIVERS)
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com> (supporter:SOUND - SOC LAYER / DYNAMIC AUDIO POWER MANAGEM...)
Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> (supporter:SOUND - SOC LAYER / DYNAMIC AUDIO POWER MANAGEM...)
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz> (maintainer:SOUND)
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com> (maintainer:SOUND)
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org> (maintainer:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE)
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de> (maintainer:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE)
Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de> (reviewer:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE)
NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com> (reviewer:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE)
alsa-devel@...a-project.org (moderated list:FREESCALE SOC SOUND DRIVERS)
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org (open list:FREESCALE SOC SOUND DRIVERS)
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org (moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE)
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
--
Gustavo
> --
>
> v2:
> - adjust subject line
> - added alsa-devel & Mark
> - added acked-by
> - added reviewed-by
>
> The patches in this series were sent by Silvio to the security list
> to fix a minor memory disclosure issue after this article was published:
>
> http://blog.infosectcbr.com.au/2018/11/memory-bugs-in-multiple-linux-kernel.html
>
>
> sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c b/sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c
> index 392d5eef356d..99e07b01a2ce 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/fsl/imx-audmux.c
> @@ -86,49 +86,49 @@ static ssize_t audmux_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
> if (!buf)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - ret = snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "PDCR: %08x\nPTCR: %08x\n",
> + ret = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "PDCR: %08x\nPTCR: %08x\n",
> pdcr, ptcr);
>
> if (ptcr & IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_TFSDIR)
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "TxFS output from %s, ",
> audmux_port_string((ptcr >> 27) & 0x7));
> else
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "TxFS input, ");
>
> if (ptcr & IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_TCLKDIR)
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "TxClk output from %s",
> audmux_port_string((ptcr >> 22) & 0x7));
> else
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "TxClk input");
>
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret, "\n");
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret, "\n");
>
> if (ptcr & IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_SYN) {
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "Port is symmetric");
> } else {
> if (ptcr & IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_RFSDIR)
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "RxFS output from %s, ",
> audmux_port_string((ptcr >> 17) & 0x7));
> else
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "RxFS input, ");
>
> if (ptcr & IMX_AUDMUX_V2_PTCR_RCLKDIR)
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "RxClk output from %s",
> audmux_port_string((ptcr >> 12) & 0x7));
> else
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "RxClk input");
> }
>
> - ret += snprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, PAGE_SIZE - ret,
> "\nData received from %s\n",
> audmux_port_string((pdcr >> 13) & 0x7));
>
>
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