linux-kernel - [PATCH] char: hpet: Fix out-of-bounds read bug

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:26:13 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] char: hpet: Fix out-of-bounds read bug

Currently, there is an out-of-bounds read on array hpetp->hp_dev
in the following for loop:

870         for (i = 0; i < hdp->hd_nirqs; i++)
871                 hpetp->hp_dev[i].hd_hdwirq = hdp->hd_irq[i];

This is due to the recent change from one-element array to
flexible-array member in struct hpets:

104 struct hpets {
	...
113         struct hpet_dev hp_dev[];
114 };

This change affected the total size of the dynamic memory
allocation, decreasing it by one time the size of struct hpet_dev.

Fix this by adjusting the allocation size when calling
struct_size().

Fixes: 987f028b8637c ("char: hpet: Use flexible-array member")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---

Here to fix what I break. :p Sorry...

 drivers/char/hpet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c
index aed2c45f7968..ed3b7dab678d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hpet.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ int hpet_alloc(struct hpet_data *hdp)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	hpetp = kzalloc(struct_size(hpetp, hp_dev, hdp->hd_nirqs - 1),
+	hpetp = kzalloc(struct_size(hpetp, hp_dev, hdp->hd_nirqs),
 			GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!hpetp)
-- 
2.23.0