netdev - Re: [patch] tehuti: using uninitialized data in bdx_ioctl

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:27:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tehuti: using uninitialized data in bdx_ioctl_priv()

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:24:12 +0100

> On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 13:01 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:05:03 +0300
>> 
>> > If we "cmd == SIOCDEVPRIVATE" then we use data[] without initializing
>> > it.  The most common case is that we would return -EOPNOTSUPP.  The
>> > other case is that we'd end up reading and writing to randomish places.
>> > This requires CAP_SYS_RAWIO so it's not very bad.
>> > 
>> > The fix is to not allow SIOCDEVPRIVATE because it doesn't work.  I
>> > returned -EOPNOTSUPP instead of -ENOTTY because that's what is used in
>> > the rest of the file.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>> 
>> I think the intention is to only allow SIOCDEVPRIVATE, rather than
>> accept any and all values other than it which are inside of the
>> private ioctl range.
>> 
>> The 'cmd' validation is one step, and it determines the interpretation
>> of data[0].
> 
> But data is only initialised on the error path.  So this whole function
> is useless.  It might as well be removed entirely.
> 
> (Also, drivers generally should not assign SIOCDEVPRIVATE+{0,1,2}, as
> those numbers used to be conventionally used for MII operations.)

Agreed, this function should be removed, and if someone has to have this
functionality they can implement ETHTOOL_GREGS.
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