patch "mei: validate request value in client notify request ioctl" added to char-misc-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mei: validate request value in client notify request ioctl

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From 7326fffb712f09a315bc73cc1ee63843f59b8bd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:25:01 +0200
Subject: mei: validate request value in client notify request ioctl

This patch address a possible security issue:

The request field in client notify request ioctl comes from user space
as u32 and is downcasted to u8 with out validation.
Check request field to have approved values
MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_STAR/STOP

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.3+
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 677d0362f334..80f9afcb1382 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -458,7 +458,11 @@ static int mei_ioctl_client_notify_request(struct file *file, u32 request)
 {
 	struct mei_cl *cl = file->private_data;
 
-	return mei_cl_notify_request(cl, file, request);
+	if (request != MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_START &&
+	    request != MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_STOP)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return mei_cl_notify_request(cl, file, (u8)request);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.7.0