From: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Phoenix Huang <phoenix@emc.com.tw>,
jingle.wu@emc.com.tw,
Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] Input: elantech - Fix stack out of bound access in elantech_change_report_id()
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:53:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZN/hXipFP7Ipb7G@arighi-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YZNsoj7Onbxr68OQ@ninjato>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 09:32:34AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 08:22:23AM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > The array param[] in elantech_change_report_id() must be at least 3
> > bytes, because elantech_read_reg_params() is calling ps2_command() with
> > PSMOUSE_CMD_GETINFO, that is going to access 3 bytes from param[], but
> > it's defined in the stack as an array of 2 bytes, therefore we have a
> > potential stack out-of-bounds access here, also confirmed by KASAN:
>
> I think a comment in the code why the array size is 3 when only 2 values
> are defined would be helpful. Like a short summary of the above.
>
Good idea, I like it, I'll send a v2 adding such comment.
Thanks!
-Andrea
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 7:22 [RESEND PATCH] Input: elantech - Fix stack out of bound access in elantech_change_report_id() Andrea Righi
2021-11-16 8:32 ` Wolfram Sang
2021-11-16 9:53 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
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