From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com ([198.2.177.1]:39177 "EHLO mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751062AbcCASy0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:54:26 -0500 Received: from pmta06.mandrill.prod.suw01.rsglab.com (127.0.0.1) by mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com id hqnim422rtke for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:54:23 +0000 (envelope-from ) From: Subject: Patch "mei: validate request value in client notify request ioctl" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: , , Cc: , Message-Id: <145685846039202@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:54:23 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mei-validate-request-value-in-client-notify-request-ioctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>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 From: Alexander Usyskin commit 7326fffb712f09a315bc73cc1ee63843f59b8bd4 upstream. 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 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(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c @@ -458,7 +458,11 @@ static int mei_ioctl_client_notify_reque { 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); } /** Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.usyskin@intel.com are queue-4.4/mei-validate-request-value-in-client-notify-request-ioctl.patch