Re: [v2 1/1] i2c: dev: prevent ZERO_SIZE_PTR deref in i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr()

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:06:58PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 03:29:22PM +0300, Alexander Popov wrote:
> > i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr() allocates i2c_msg.buf using memdup_user(), which
> > returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR if i2c_msg.len is zero.
> > 
> > Currently i2cdev_ioctl_rdwr() always dereferences the buf pointer in case
> > of I2C_M_RD | I2C_M_RECV_LEN transfer. That causes a kernel oops in
> > case of zero len.
> > 
> > Let's check the len against zero before dereferencing buf pointer.
> > 
> > This issue was triggered by syzkaller.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
> 
> Applied to for-current with the arithmetic expression changed to '< 1'
> to keep in sync with the previous one. Will push out soon, so you can
> double check if you are interested.

Thanks, I like it. An added bonus is also that you don't need to think
about the type of msgs[i].len and what happens if it is negative.

Best regards
Uwe


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