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* [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path
@ 2016-06-17  9:15 Dan Carpenter
  2016-06-17  9:28 ` walter harms
  2016-06-18  8:52 ` Linus Walleij
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2016-06-17  9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Walleij; +Cc: Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio, kernel-janitors

If anon_inode_getfd() fails then "i" is set to GPIOHANDLES_MAX.  It
means that we will read beyond the end of the array and dereference an
invalid pointer.

Fixes: d7c51b47ac11 ('gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 8b3db59..8578b7f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ static int linehandle_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip)
 	return 0;
 
 out_free_descs:
+	if (i = GPIOHANDLES_MAX)
+		i--;
 	for (; i >= 0; i--)
 		gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
 	kfree(lh->label);

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* Re: [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path
  2016-06-17  9:15 [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path Dan Carpenter
@ 2016-06-17  9:28 ` walter harms
  2016-06-17  9:59   ` Dan Carpenter
  2016-06-18  8:54   ` Linus Walleij
  2016-06-18  8:52 ` Linus Walleij
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: walter harms @ 2016-06-17  9:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Linus Walleij, Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio, kernel-janitors



Am 17.06.2016 11:15, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> If anon_inode_getfd() fails then "i" is set to GPIOHANDLES_MAX.  It
> means that we will read beyond the end of the array and dereference an
> invalid pointer.
> 
> Fixes: d7c51b47ac11 ('gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index 8b3db59..8578b7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -495,6 +495,8 @@ static int linehandle_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip)
>  	return 0;
>  
>  out_free_descs:
> +	if (i = GPIOHANDLES_MAX)
> +		i--;
>  	for (; i >= 0; i--)
>  		gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
>  	kfree(lh->label);


Since we have already noticed that programmes are bad at counting backwards
is it possible to change the loop into counting up ?

btw: if lh->descs[i] is initialized to NULL it would be more robust just to free everything like:

for(i=0;i< GPIOHANDLES_MAX; i++)
  gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);

just my two cents,

re,
 wh





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* Re: [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path
  2016-06-17  9:28 ` walter harms
@ 2016-06-17  9:59   ` Dan Carpenter
  2016-06-18  8:54   ` Linus Walleij
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2016-06-17  9:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: walter harms
  Cc: Linus Walleij, Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio, kernel-janitors

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:28:33AM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> >  out_free_descs:
> > +	if (i = GPIOHANDLES_MAX)
> > +		i--;
> >  	for (; i >= 0; i--)
> >  		gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
> >  	kfree(lh->label);
> 
> 
> Since we have already noticed that programmes are bad at counting backwards
> is it possible to change the loop into counting up ?
> 
> btw: if lh->descs[i] is initialized to NULL it would be more robust just to free everything like:
> 
> for(i=0;i< GPIOHANDLES_MAX; i++)
>   gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
>

Depending on the config gpiod_free(NULL) generates a warning.  It's
possible that it will be generated once with the current code actually
but I didn't feel it was worth worrying about that.

Still I wouldn't want to generate 64 warnings.

regards,
dan carpenter


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* Re: [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path
  2016-06-17  9:15 [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path Dan Carpenter
  2016-06-17  9:28 ` walter harms
@ 2016-06-18  8:52 ` Linus Walleij
  2016-06-18  8:57   ` Linus Walleij
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Linus Walleij @ 2016-06-18  8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Dan Carpenter
<dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:

> If anon_inode_getfd() fails then "i" is set to GPIOHANDLES_MAX.  It
> means that we will read beyond the end of the array and dereference an
> invalid pointer.
>
> Fixes: d7c51b47ac11 ('gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Ouch, yeah that happens when you request max number of handles, thanks.

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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* Re: [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path
  2016-06-17  9:28 ` walter harms
  2016-06-17  9:59   ` Dan Carpenter
@ 2016-06-18  8:54   ` Linus Walleij
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Linus Walleij @ 2016-06-18  8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: wharms
  Cc: Dan Carpenter, Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:28 AM, walter harms <wharms@bfs.de> wrote:
> Am 17.06.2016 11:15, schrieb Dan Carpenter:

>>  out_free_descs:
>> +     if (i = GPIOHANDLES_MAX)
>> +             i--;
>>       for (; i >= 0; i--)
>>               gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
>>       kfree(lh->label);
>
>
> Since we have already noticed that programmes are bad at counting backwards
> is it possible to change the loop into counting up ?
>
> btw: if lh->descs[i] is initialized to NULL it would be more robust just to free everything like:
>
> for(i=0;i< GPIOHANDLES_MAX; i++)
>   gpiod_free(lh->descs[i]);
>
> just my two cents,

The loop looks like that for a reason: i is indexing upwards while
grabbing the descriptors, then it rewinds that way to free them if
something went wrong during init.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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* Re: [patch] gpiolib: potential oops on failure path
  2016-06-18  8:52 ` Linus Walleij
@ 2016-06-18  8:57   ` Linus Walleij
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Linus Walleij @ 2016-06-18  8:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Alexandre Courbot, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Dan Carpenter
> <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> If anon_inode_getfd() fails then "i" is set to GPIOHANDLES_MAX.  It
>> means that we will read beyond the end of the array and dereference an
>> invalid pointer.
>>
>> Fixes: d7c51b47ac11 ('gpio: userspace ABI for reading/writing GPIO lines')
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> Ouch, yeah that happens when you request max number of handles, thanks.
>
> Patch applied.

Ah no, I saw the real problem now. Sending another patch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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