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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jacob von Chorus <jacobvonchorus@cwphoto.ca>
Cc: Insop Song <insop.song@gainspeed.com>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3/resubmit 1/3] staging: gs_fpgaboot: add buffer overflow checks
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:57:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170728045712.GA32490@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170727011359.2265-1-jacobvonchorus@cwphoto.ca>

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 09:13:57PM -0400, Jacob von Chorus wrote:
> Four fields in struct fpgaimage are char arrays of length MAX_STR (256).
> The amount of data read into these buffers is controlled by a length
> field in the bitstream file read from userspace. If a corrupt or
> malicious firmware file was supplied, kernel data beyond these buffers
> can be overwritten arbitrarily.
> 
> This patch adds a check of the bitstream's length value to ensure it
> fits within the bounds of the allocated buffers. An error condition is
> returned from gs_read_bitstream if any of the reads fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jacob von Chorus <jacobvonchorus@cwphoto.ca>
> 
> v3:
> - use >= to prevent an integer overflow in the comparison
> - use get_unaligned_be functions to interpret length fields
> - fix remainder of file to use valid error codes
> 
> v2:
> - char arrays converted to u8 arrays
> - replace error return value with proper error code in
> 	gs_read_bitstream
> ---

All of the v2: and such needs to go below the --- line, as
Documentation/SubmittingPatches says to do.

Please fix that up and resend the series.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-28  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-27  1:13 [PATCH v3/resubmit 1/3] staging: gs_fpgaboot: add buffer overflow checks Jacob von Chorus
2017-07-27  1:13 ` [PATCH v3/resubmit 2/3] staging: gs_fpgaboot: change char to u8 Jacob von Chorus
2017-07-27  1:13 ` [PATCH v3/resubmit 3/3] staging: gs_fpgaboot: return valid error codes Jacob von Chorus
2017-07-28  4:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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2017-07-28 21:06 [PATCH v3/resubmit 1/3] staging: gs_fpgaboot: add buffer overflow checks Jacob von Chorus

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