linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 241/287] NTB: ntb_tool: uninitialized heap data in tool_fn

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Message-Id: <20220823080109.204439326@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:26:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 241/287] NTB: ntb_tool: uninitialized heap data in tool_fn_write()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

commit 45e1058b77feade4e36402828bfe3e0d3363177b upstream.

The call to:

	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, size, offp, ubuf, size);

will return success if it is able to write even one byte to "buf".
The value of "*offp" controls which byte.  This could result in
reading uninitialized data when we do the sscanf() on the next line.

This code is not really desigined to handle partial writes where
*offp is non-zero and the "buf" is preserved and re-used between writes.
Just ban partial writes and replace the simple_write_to_buffer() with
copy_from_user().

Fixes: 578b881ba9c4 ("NTB: Add tool test client")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@...zu.us>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/ntb/test/ntb_tool.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_tool.c
+++ b/drivers/ntb/test/ntb_tool.c
@@ -367,14 +367,16 @@ static ssize_t tool_fn_write(struct tool
 	u64 bits;
 	int n;
 
+	if (*offp)
+		return 0;
+
 	buf = kmalloc(size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, size, offp, ubuf, size);
-	if (ret < 0) {
+	if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, size)) {
 		kfree(buf);
-		return ret;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
 	buf[size] = 0;