linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/3] nvmem: core: improve range check for nvmem_cell

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Message-ID: <20241104152312.3813601-2-jberring@redhat.com>
Date: Mon,  4 Nov 2024 10:23:10 -0500
From: Jennifer Berringer <jberring@...hat.com>
To: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	Jennifer Berringer <jberring@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] nvmem: core: improve range check for nvmem_cell_write()

When __nvmem_cell_entry_write() is called for an nvmem cell that does
not need bit shifting, it requires that the len parameter exactly
matches the nvmem cell size. However, when the nvmem cell has a nonzero
bit_offset, it was skipping this check.

Accepting values of len larger than the cell size results in
nvmem_cell_prepare_write_buffer() trying to write past the end of a heap
buffer that it allocates. Add a check to avoid that problem and instead
return -EINVAL when len doesn't match the number of bits expected by the
nvmem cell when bit_offset is nonzero.

This check uses cell->nbits in order to allow providing the smaller size
to cells that are shifted into another byte by bit_offset. For example,
a cell with nbits=8 and nonzero bit_offset would have bytes=2 but should
accept a 1-byte write here, although no current callers depend on this.

Fixes: 69aba7948cbe ("nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for consumers")

Signed-off-by: Jennifer Berringer <jberring@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/nvmem/core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 33ffa2aa4c11..4a5a6efe4bab 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -1780,6 +1780,8 @@ static int __nvmem_cell_entry_write(struct nvmem_cell_entry *cell, void *buf, si
 		return -EINVAL;

 	if (cell->bit_offset || cell->nbits) {
+		if (len != BITS_TO_BYTES(cell->nbits) && len != cell->bytes)
+			return -EINVAL;
 		buf = nvmem_cell_prepare_write_buffer(cell, buf, len);
 		if (IS_ERR(buf))
 			return PTR_ERR(buf);
-- 
2.46.2