linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/acr: Fix undefined behavior in nvkm_acr_hsfw_load

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:57:36 -0500
From:   Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To:     Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>,
        Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/acr: Fix undefined behavior in
 nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl()

On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 14:53 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 2:20 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Sigh-thank you for catching this - I had totally forgot about the umn.edu
> > ban.
> > I pushed this already but I will go ahead and send a revert for this
> > patch.
> > Will cc you on it as well.
> 
> This seems short-sighted.  If the patch is valid I see no reason to
> not accept it.  I'm not trying to downplay the mess umn got into, but
> as long as the patch is well scrutinized and fixes a valid issue, it
> should be applied rather than leaving potential bugs in place.
> 

Yeah - I sent a revert for this, but that was mainly just to make sure I
didn't cause problems with Linus or something like that. If it's all the same
I'd much rather just leave this patch in, as looking at the code the fix seems
completely valid.

> Alex
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 11:18 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:58:55AM +0800, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> > > > In nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl(), the return value of kmalloc() is directly
> > > > passed to memcpy(), which could lead to undefined behavior on failure
> > > > of kmalloc().
> > > > 
> > > > Fix this bug by using kmemdup() instead of kmalloc()+memcpy().
> > > > 
> > > > This bug was found by a static analyzer.
> > > > 
> > > > Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
> > > > and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: 22dcda45a3d1 ("drm/nouveau/acr: implement new subdev to replace
> > > > "secure boot"")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@....edu>
> > > > ---
> > > > The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent
> > > > security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths
> > > > and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the
> > > > current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs.
> > > > 
> > > > Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
> > > > positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
> > > > the bug.
> > > > 
> > > >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c | 9 +++++----
> > > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > > > index 667fa016496e..a6ea89a5d51a 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > > > @@ -142,11 +142,12 @@ nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl(struct nvkm_acr *acr,
> > > > const
> > > > char *name, int ver,
> > > > 
> > > >         hsfw->imem_size = desc->code_size;
> > > >         hsfw->imem_tag = desc->start_tag;
> > > > -       hsfw->imem = kmalloc(desc->code_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > -       memcpy(hsfw->imem, data + desc->code_off, desc->code_size);
> > > > -
> > > > +       hsfw->imem = kmemdup(data + desc->code_off, desc->code_size,
> > > > GFP_KERNEL);
> > > >         nvkm_firmware_put(fw);
> > > > -       return 0;
> > > > +       if (!hsfw->imem)
> > > > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > > > +       else
> > > > +               return 0;
> > > >  }
> > > > 
> > > >  int
> > > > --
> > > > 2.25.1
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > As stated before, umn.edu is still not allowed to contribute to the
> > > Linux kernel.  Please work with your administration to resolve this
> > > issue.
> > > 
> > 
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >  Lyude Paul (she/her)
> >  Software Engineer at Red Hat
> > 
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat