Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 66/82] iio: imu: st_lsm6dsx: Avoid potential array overflow in st_lsm6dsx_set_odr()

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Tue,  9 Nov 2021 17:16:24 -0500
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Teng Qi <starmiku1207184332@gmail.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 94be878c882d8d784ff44c639bf55f3b029f85af ]
> 
> The length of hw->settings->odr_table is 2 and ref_sensor->id is an enum
> variable whose value is between 0 and 5.
> However, the value ST_LSM6DSX_ID_MAX (i.e. 5) is not caught properly in
>  switch (sensor->id) {
> 
> If ref_sensor->id is ST_LSM6DSX_ID_MAX, an array overflow will ocurrs in
> function st_lsm6dsx_check_odr():
>   odr_table = &sensor->hw->settings->odr_table[sensor->id];
> 
> and in function st_lsm6dsx_set_odr():
>   reg = &hw->settings->odr_table[ref_sensor->id].reg;
> 
> To avoid this array overflow, handle ST_LSM6DSX_ID_GYRO explicitly and
> return -EINVAL for the default case.
> 
> The enum value ST_LSM6DSX_ID_MAX is only present as an easy way to check
> the limit and as such is never used, however this is not locally obvious.
> 
> Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Teng Qi <starmiku1207184332@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211011114003.976221-1-starmiku1207184332@gmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

This is really just noise for stable.  There wasn't a bug here though
the change is doing some hardening and improving local readability by
saving anyone having to confirm it can't occur by looking at the enum
values.

I don't mind it going into stable though if others feel it's worthwhile.

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c
> index db45f1fc0b817..8dbf744c5651f 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_core.c
> @@ -1279,6 +1279,8 @@ st_lsm6dsx_set_odr(struct st_lsm6dsx_sensor *sensor, u32 req_odr)
>  	int err;
>  
>  	switch (sensor->id) {
> +	case ST_LSM6DSX_ID_GYRO:
> +		break;
>  	case ST_LSM6DSX_ID_EXT0:
>  	case ST_LSM6DSX_ID_EXT1:
>  	case ST_LSM6DSX_ID_EXT2:
> @@ -1304,8 +1306,8 @@ st_lsm6dsx_set_odr(struct st_lsm6dsx_sensor *sensor, u32 req_odr)
>  		}
>  		break;
>  	}
> -	default:
> -		break;
> +	default: /* should never occur */
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (req_odr > 0) {