From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
"Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
"Sakari Ailus" <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
"Laurent Pinchart" <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
"Vandana BN" <bnvandana@gmail.com>,
"Ezequiel Garcia" <ezequiel@collabora.com>,
"Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
"Linux Media Mailing List" <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] media/v4l2-core: Fix kernel-infoleak in video_put_user()
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 03:56:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200727075637.GA205716@PWN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3NB2BVo9fH-Wcinrhhs-QJ=9dK59Ds83TvgLmEkRy3qA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:25:16AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:28 AM Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > video_put_user() is copying uninitialized stack memory to userspace due
> > to the compiler not initializing holes in the structures declared on the
> > stack. Fix it by initializing `ev32` and `vb32` using memset().
> >
> > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+79d751604cb6f29fbf59@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=79d751604cb6f29fbf59
> > Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks a lot for addressing this! I now see that I actually created a similar
> bugfix for it back in January, but for some reason that got stuck in my
> backlog and I never wrote a proper description for it or sent it out to the
> list, sorry about that. I would hope we could find a way to have either
> the compiler or sparse warn if we copy uninitialized data to user space,
> but we now don't even check for that within the kernel any more.
I am glad to be of help!
> I would suggest adding these tags to the patch, to ensure it gets backported
> to stable kernels as needed:
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1a6c0b36dd19 ("media: v4l2-core: fix VIDIOC_DQEVENT for time64 ABI")
> Fixes: 577c89b0ce72 ("media: v4l2-core: fix v4l2_buffer handling for
> time64 ABI")
>
> In addition to
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Sure, I will send a v4 soon. Thank you for reviewing the patch.
Peilin Ye
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-27 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-26 16:44 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] media/v4l2-core: Fix kernel-infoleak in video_put_user() Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 17:30 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 18:07 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:08 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 22:15 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 18:12 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:05 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] " Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:10 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 22:16 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:27 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] " Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 7:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 7:56 ` Peilin Ye [this message]
2020-07-27 13:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 14:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:14 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 14:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:46 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 15:30 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 14:43 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 14:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 22:04 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28 10:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 22:33 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28 9:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28 9:47 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28 13:13 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28 12:22 ` Linus Walleij
2020-07-28 13:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28 13:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30 8:07 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-07-30 8:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30 8:38 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-30 9:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30 11:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-30 13:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-02 16:55 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 8:00 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v4] " Peilin Ye
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