linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Fix potential buffer overflows

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Date:   Tue, 3 Aug 2021 21:30:17 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Evgeny Novikov <novikov@...ras.ru>
Cc:     Rajneesh Bhardwaj <irenic.rajneesh@...il.com>,
        David E Box <david.e.box@...el.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David E. Box" <david.e.box@...ux.intel.com>,
        Gayatri Kammela <gayatri.kammela@...el.com>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ldv-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Fix potential buffer overflows

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 9:26 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 9:21 PM Evgeny Novikov <novikov@...ras.ru> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like pmc_core_get_low_power_modes() mixes up modes and
> > priorities. In addition to invalid behavior, potentially this can
> > cause buffer overflows since the driver reads priorities from the
> > register and then it uses them as indexes for array lpm_priority
> > that can contain 8 elements at most. The patch swaps modes and
> > priorities.
> >
> > Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Seems legit.

Hold on, but then it follows with another loop where actually it reads
modes by priority index. Can you elaborate what exactly is the problem
you think?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko