netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/mlx5: Fix flow counter bulk command out mailbox allocation

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Date:   Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:02:23 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Hadar Har-Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
        Amir Vadai <amirva@...lanox.com>, Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net/mlx5: Fix flow counter bulk command out
 mailbox allocation

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 06:20:27PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> From: Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
>
> The FW command output length should be only the length of struct
> mlx5_cmd_fc_bulk out field. Failing to do so will cause the memcpy
> call which is invoked later in the driver to write over wrong memory
> address and corrupt kernel memory which results in random crashes.
>
> This bug was found using the kernel address sanitizer (kasan).
>
> Fixes: a351a1b03bf1 ('net/mlx5: Introduce bulk reading of flow counters')
> Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_cmd.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_cmd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_cmd.c
> index 9134010..287ade1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_cmd.c
> @@ -425,11 +425,11 @@ struct mlx5_cmd_fc_bulk *
>  mlx5_cmd_fc_bulk_alloc(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 id, int num)
>  {
>  	struct mlx5_cmd_fc_bulk *b;
> -	int outlen = sizeof(*b) +
> +	int outlen =
>  		MLX5_ST_SZ_BYTES(query_flow_counter_out) +
>  		MLX5_ST_SZ_BYTES(traffic_counter) * num;
>
> -	b = kzalloc(outlen, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	b = kzalloc(sizeof(*b) + outlen, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!b)
>  		return NULL;
                  ^^^^^^^^^ very controversial decision.
The code flow mlx5_fc_stats_query->mlx5_cmd_fc_bulk_alloc->kzalloc
failure is the same for success scenario too.

It is not related to the proposed patch.

>
> --
> 2.3.7
>

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