linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] misc: fastrpc: restrict user apps from sending kernel RPC messages

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Message-ID: <YD03ew7+6v0XPh6l@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Mar 2021 19:50:35 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Marek <jonathan@...ek.ca>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: fastrpc: restrict user apps from sending kernel
 RPC messages

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 08:45:34PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 18:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 06:34:10PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 11:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:26:58PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > > > Verify that user applications are not using the kernel RPC message
> > > > > handle to restrict them from directly attaching to guest OS on the
> > > > > remote subsystem. This is a port of CVE-2019-2308 fix.
> > > >
> > > > A port of the fix of what to what?
> > >
> > > I'm sorry for the confusion. It is a port of the original
> > > Qualcomm/CodeAurora fix to the upstream driver.
> > >
> > > See https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?id=cc2e11eeb988964af72309f71b0fb21c11ed6ca9,
> >
> > So this is a fix from 2019 that you never submitted upstream causing all
> > of these kernels to be vulnerable?
> 
> It seems there is some kind of confusion here.
> Srinivas and Thierry have developed the fastrpc driver. It is not the
> same as the driver developed by Qualcomm. However in this case it
> suffers from the same problem as the original adsprpc driver..
> We have submitted the fix as soon as we've noticed the issue.

Ah, that makes more sense, thanks.

So really, it's not the same CVE issue, aren't they fun?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h