linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipmi: fix oob access due to uninit smi

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Message-ID: <20211125142140.GV15676@minyard.net>
Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:21:40 -0600
From:   Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     andrew.manley@...lingtech.com,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: fix oob access due to uninit smi_msg type

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 01:03:23PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> We're hitting OOB accesses in handle_ipmb_direct_rcv_rsp() (memcpy of
> size -1) after user space generates a message. Looks like the message
> is incorrectly assumed to be of the new IPMB type, because type is never
> set and message is allocated with kmalloc() not kzalloc().
> 
> Fixes: 059747c245f0 ("ipmi: Add support for IPMB direct messages")
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

This is correct, and in my queue.  Thanks for the fix.

-corey

> ---
> Would it be possible to get something like this to Linus ASAP?
> It's flipping over all my test boxes.
> ---
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> index deed355422f4..f0b18c25cbb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
> @@ -5031,6 +5031,7 @@ struct ipmi_smi_msg *ipmi_alloc_smi_msg(void)
>  	if (rv) {
>  		rv->done = free_smi_msg;
>  		rv->user_data = NULL;
> +		rv->type = IPMI_SMI_MSG_TYPE_NORMAL;
>  		atomic_inc(&smi_msg_inuse_count);
>  	}
>  	return rv;
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>