linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 229/241] ethtool: fix potential userspace buffer overflow

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Date:   Sun,  9 Jun 2019 18:42:51 +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, Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 229/241] ethtool: fix potential userspace buffer overflow

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>

[ Upstream commit 0ee4e76937d69128a6a66861ba393ebdc2ffc8a2 ]

ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops->get_regs_len(),
and pass it to the kernel driver via ops->get_regs() for filling.

There is no restriction about what the kernel drivers can or cannot do
with the open ethtool_regs structure. They usually set regs->version
and ignore regs->len or set it to the same size as ops->get_regs_len().

But if userspace allocates a smaller buffer for the registers dump,
we would cause a userspace buffer overflow in the final copy_to_user()
call, which uses the regs.len value potentially reset by the driver.

To fix this, make this case obvious and store regs.len before calling
ops->get_regs(), to only copy as much data as requested by userspace,
up to the value returned by ops->get_regs_len().

While at it, remove the redundant check for non-null regbuf.

Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/core/ethtool.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -893,13 +893,16 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_d
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}

+	if (regs.len < reglen)
+		reglen = regs.len;
+
 	ops->get_regs(dev, &regs, regbuf);

 	ret = -EFAULT;
 	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &regs, sizeof(regs)))
 		goto out;
 	useraddr += offsetof(struct ethtool_regs, data);
-	if (regbuf && copy_to_user(useraddr, regbuf, regs.len))
+	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, regbuf, reglen))
 		goto out;
 	ret = 0;