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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc/rtas: fix array overrun in ppc_rtas() syscall
Date: Wed,  6 Jul 2016 00:10:13 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3rkQks3yQtz9sBc@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458282993-6371-1-git-send-email-andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2016-18-03 at 06:36:33 UTC, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> If ppc_rtas() is called with args.nargs == 16 and args.nret == 0, args.rets
> is set to point to &args.args[16], which is beyond the end of the args.args
> array. This results in a minor read overrun of the array when we check the
> first return code (which, per PAPR, is a required output of all RTAS calls)
> to see if there's been a hardware error.
> 
> Change the nargs/nret check to ensure nargs is <= 15, allowing room for the
> status code. Users shouldn't be calling with nret == 0, but there's no real
> harm if they do, so we don't stop them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a9862c7440f191439a51f77233

cheers

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-18  6:36 [PATCH] powerpc/rtas: fix array overrun in ppc_rtas() syscall Andrew Donnellan
2016-07-05 14:10 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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