From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192se firmware load can overflow target buffer
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F331967.3070900@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328737514.2627.14.camel@bwh-desktop>
On 02/08/2012 03:45 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:08 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> The firmware file size check does not use the
>> correct limit.
>>
>> Cc: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>> Cc: Chaoming Li<chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>
>> Cc: John W. Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com>
>> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner<tim.gardner@canonical.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.h | 3 ++-
>> drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/sw.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.h
>> index babe85d..5c377fc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.h
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/fw.h
>> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>> #define __REALTEK_FIRMWARE92S_H__
>>
>> #define RTL8190_MAX_FIRMWARE_CODE_SIZE 64000
>> +#define RTL8190_MAX_RAW_FIRMWARE_CODE_SIZE 164000
>> #define RTL8190_CPU_START_OFFSET 0x80
>> /* Firmware Local buffer size. 64k */
>> #define MAX_FIRMWARE_CODE_SIZE 0xFF00
>> @@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ struct rt_firmware {
>> u8 fw_emem[RTL8190_MAX_FIRMWARE_CODE_SIZE];
>> u32 fw_imem_len;
>> u32 fw_emem_len;
>> - u8 sz_fw_tmpbuffer[164000];
>> + u8 sz_fw_tmpbuffer[RTL8190_MAX_RAW_FIRMWARE_CODE_SIZE];
>> u32 sz_fw_tmpbufferlen;
>> u16 cmdpacket_fragthresold;
>> };
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/sw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/sw.c
>> index ca38dd9..155da0a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/sw.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192se/sw.c
>> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static void rtl92se_fw_cb(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context)
>> rtlpriv->max_fw_size = 0;
>> return;
>> }
>> - if (firmware->size> rtlpriv->max_fw_size) {
>> + if (firmware->size>= RTL8190_MAX_RAW_FIRMWARE_CODE_SIZE) {
>
> This appears to reject a firmware blob which is exactly the maximum
> size, which looks wrong. Also doesn't this make the max_fw_size field
> redundant?
>
> Ben.
>
>> RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG,
>> "Firmware is too big!\n");
>> release_firmware(firmware);
>
For all the drivers under rtlwifi, max_fw_size is set to zero whenever the
required firmware file is not found. In the original version with synchronous
firmware loading, the existence of the required file and it's size were known
immediately, but with the asynch loading now used, that info is not known until
later. Thus a parameter is used. In addition, rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu, and
rtl8192de all share the same asynchronous loading callback routine, but each has
a different firmware size. The parameter max_fw_size contains that info as well.
The patch is NACKed.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-09 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-08 21:08 [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192se firmware load can overflow target buffer Tim Gardner
2012-02-08 21:45 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-09 0:55 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-02-09 2:30 ` Larry Finger
2012-02-09 14:41 ` Tim Gardner
2012-02-09 16:43 ` Larry Finger
2012-02-09 17:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Tim Gardner
2012-02-10 0:21 ` Larry Finger
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