netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] property: add fwnode_property_read_string

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Message-ID: <20220318174912.5759095f@fixe.home>
Date:   Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:49:12 +0100
From:   Clément Léger <clement.leger@...tlin.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "'Rafael J . Wysocki '" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Allan Nielsen <allan.nielsen@...rochip.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] property: add fwnode_property_read_string_index()

Le Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:26:00 +0200,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> a écrit :

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 05:00:47PM +0100, Clément Léger wrote:
> > Add fwnode_property_read_string_index() function which allows to
> > retrieve a string from an array by its index. This function is the
> > equivalent of of_property_read_string_index() but for fwnode support.  
> 
> ...
> 
> > +	values = kcalloc(nval, sizeof(*values), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!values)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	ret = fwnode_property_read_string_array(fwnode, propname, values, nval);
> > +	if (ret < 0)
> > +		goto out;
> > +
> > +	*string = values[index];
> > +out:
> > +	kfree(values);  
> 
> Here is UAF (use after free). How is it supposed to work?
> 

values is an array of pointers. I'm only retrieving a pointer out of
it.

-- 
Clément Léger,
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin
https://bootlin.com