linux-kernel - [PATCH] vduse: prevent uninitialized memory accesses

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Message-Id: <20220826161605.559317-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:16:05 +0200
From:   Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, elic@...dia.com,
        guanjun@...ux.alibaba.com, parav@...dia.com,
        gautam.dawar@...inx.com, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
        xieyongji@...edance.com, jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com
Cc:     Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vduse: prevent uninitialized memory accesses

If the VDUSE application provides a smaller config space
than the driver expects, the driver may use uninitialized
memory from the stack.

This patch prevents it by initializing the buffer passed by
the driver to store the config value.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
index 41c0b29739f1..35dceee3ed56 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c
@@ -673,10 +673,15 @@ static void vduse_vdpa_get_config(struct vdpa_device *vdpa, unsigned int offset,
 {
 	struct vduse_dev *dev = vdpa_to_vduse(vdpa);
 
-	if (offset > dev->config_size ||
-	    len > dev->config_size - offset)
+	/* Initialize the buffer in case of partial copy. */
+	memset(buf, 0, len);
+
+	if (offset > dev->config_size)
 		return;
 
+	if (len > dev->config_size - offset)
+		len = dev->config_size - offset;
+
 	memcpy(buf, dev->config + offset, len);
 }
 
-- 
2.37.1