netdev - [PATCH net-next] ethtool: make .get_dump_data() harder to misuse by drivers

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Date:	Mon,  1 Jul 2013 17:23:30 +0200
From:	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: make .get_dump_data() harder to misuse by drivers

As the patch "bnx2x: remove zeroing of dump data buffer" showed,
it is too easy implement .get_dump_data incorrectly in a driver.

Let's make sure drivers cannot get confused by userspace requesting
a too big dump.

Also WARN if the driver sets dump->len to something weird and make
sure the length reported to userspace is the actual length of data
copied to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
---
 net/core/ethtool.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index ce91766..3b71cdb 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1319,10 +1319,19 @@ static int ethtool_get_dump_data(struct net_device *dev,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	len = (tmp.len > dump.len) ? dump.len : tmp.len;
+	len = min(tmp.len, dump.len);
 	if (!len)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	/* Don't ever let the driver think there's more space available
+	 * than it requested with .get_dump_flag().
+	 */
+	dump.len = len;
+
+	/* Always allocate enough space to hold the whole thing so that the
+	 * driver does not need to check the length and bother with partial
+	 * dumping.
+	 */
 	data = vzalloc(tmp.len);
 	if (!data)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1330,6 +1339,16 @@ static int ethtool_get_dump_data(struct net_device *dev,
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
+	/* There are two sane possibilities:
+	 * 1. The driver's .get_dump_data() does not touch dump.len.
+	 * 2. Or it may set dump.len to how much it really writes, which
+	 *    should be tmp.len (or len if it can do a partial dump).
+	 * In any case respond to userspace with the actual length of data
+	 * it's receiving.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON(dump.len != len && dump.len != tmp.len);
+	dump.len = len;
+
 	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &dump, sizeof(dump))) {
 		ret = -EFAULT;
 		goto out;
-- 
1.8.1.4

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