From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54696 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbcBGGNL (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2016 01:13:11 -0500 Subject: patch "mei: validate request value in client notify request ioctl" added to char-misc-linus To: alexander.usyskin@intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, tomas.winkler@intel.com From: Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:13:11 -0800 Message-ID: <145482559116571@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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: #4.3+ Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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