linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/3] Strict XenStore entry parsing

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Message-Id: <20230610170743.2510-4-demi@invisiblethingslab.com>
Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2023 13:07:43 -0400
From:   Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:     Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] Strict XenStore entry parsing

This rejects bogus xenstore node values that include e.g. leading spaces
or overflow the expected integer type.

Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
---
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
index 12e02eb01f5991b31db451cc57037205359b347f..7cb2a22a7698ac40c81add23476594d9f27de8d0 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
@@ -569,16 +569,20 @@ int xenbus_scanf(struct xenbus_transaction t,
 		 const char *dir, const char *node, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	va_list ap;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
+	unsigned int len;
 	char *val;
 
-	val = xenbus_read(t, dir, node, NULL);
+	val = xenbus_read(t, dir, node, &len);
 	if (IS_ERR(val))
 		return PTR_ERR(val);
+	if (strlen(val) != len)
+		goto bad;
 
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
 	ret = vsscanf(val, fmt, ap);
 	va_end(ap);
+bad:
 	kfree(val);
 	/* Distinctive errno. */
 	if (ret == 0)
@@ -636,15 +640,18 @@ int xenbus_gather(struct xenbus_transaction t, const char *dir, ...)
 	while (ret == 0 && (name = va_arg(ap, char *)) != NULL) {
 		const char *fmt = va_arg(ap, char *);
 		void *result = va_arg(ap, void *);
+		unsigned len;
 		char *p;
 
-		p = xenbus_read(t, dir, name, NULL);
+		p = xenbus_read(t, dir, name, &len);
 		if (IS_ERR(p)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(p);
 			break;
 		}
-		if (fmt) {
-			if (sscanf(p, fmt, result) == 0)
+		if (strlen(p) != len)
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+		else if (fmt) {
+			if (sscanf(p, fmt, result) <= 0)
 				ret = -EINVAL;
 			kfree(p);
 		} else
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab