linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb

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Message-ID: <ac5585a5-1670-92d2-c019-f349df123f47@samsung.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:31:29 +0100
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: potential information leak in do_fb_ioctl()


On 1/13/20 12:08 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "fix" struct has a 2 byte hole after ->ywrapstep and the
> "fix = info->fix;" assignment doesn't necessarily clear it.  It depends
> on the compiler.  The solution is just to replace the assignment with an
> memcpy().
> 
> Fixes: 1f5e31d7e55a ("fbmem: don't call copy_from/to_user() with mutex held")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Patch queued for v5.6, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

> ---
> v2:  Use memcpy()
> 
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> index d04554959ea7..bb8d8dbc0461 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
>  		break;
>  	case FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO:
>  		lock_fb_info(info);
> -		fix = info->fix;
> +		memcpy(&fix, &info->fix, sizeof(fix));
>  		if (info->flags & FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START)
>  			fix.smem_start = 0;
>  		unlock_fb_info(info);
>