From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: [v2 1/1] i2c: dev: prevent ZERO_SIZE_PTR deref in i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr() Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 07:58:22 +0200 Message-ID: <20180420055822.qjs2hpkik5dr2fnp@pengutronix.de> References: <1524140962-25639-1-git-send-email-alex.popov@linux.com> <20180419134902.6l5jsf4wpqfiaskj@pengutronix.de> <22fe9bbe-f1d7-3a92-9528-df66c34816a5@linux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <22fe9bbe-f1d7-3a92-9528-df66c34816a5@linux.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Popov Cc: Wolfram Sang , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sil2review@lists.osadl.org, Dmitry Vyukov , syzkaller@googlegroups.com List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:01:46PM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote: > On 19.04.2018 16:49, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > >> @@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ static noinline int i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr(struct i2c_client *client, > >> */ > >> if (msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RECV_LEN) { > >> if (!(msgs[i].flags & I2C_M_RD) || > >> + !msgs[i].len || > > > > I'd prefer > > > > msgs[i].len > 0 > > Excuse me, it will be wrong. We stop if len is 0 to avoid the following > ZERO_SIZE_PTR dereference. right you are. I missed the negation. > > here instead of > > > > !msgs[i].len > > I can change it to "msgs[i].len == 0". But is it really important? > > I've carefully tested the current version with the original repro. It works correct. I don't doubt it, and the code generated is maybe even the same. The point I wanted to make is that !len is harder to read for a human than len < 1 (or another suitable arithmetic expression). But feel free to disagree and keep the code as is. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |