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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	colin.king@canonical.com, allison@lohutok.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfc: st-nci: Fix an incorrect skb_buff size in 'st_nci_i2c_read()'
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:57:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190811.205719.198343441735959015.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806141640.13197-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue,  6 Aug 2019 16:16:40 +0200

> In 'st_nci_i2c_read()', we allocate a sk_buff with a size of
> ST_NCI_I2C_MIN_SIZE + len.
> 
> However, later on, we first 'skb_reserve()' ST_NCI_I2C_MIN_SIZE bytes, then
> we 'skb_put()' ST_NCI_I2C_MIN_SIZE bytes.
> Finally, if 'len' is not 0, we 'skb_put()' 'len' bytes.
> 
> So we use ST_NCI_I2C_MIN_SIZE*2 + len bytes.
> 
> This is incorrect and should already panic. I guess that it does not occur
> because of extra memory allocated because of some rounding.
> 
> Fix it and allocate enough room for the 'skb_reserve()' and the 'skb_put()'
> calls.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
> This patch is LIKELY INCORRECT. So think twice to what is the correct
> solution before applying it.
> Maybe the skb_reserve should be axed or some other sizes are incorrect.
> There seems to be an issue, that's all I can say.

The skb_reserve() should be removed, and the second memcpy() should remove
the " + ST_NCI_I2C_MIN_SIZE".

This SKB just get sent down to ndlc_recv() so the content returned from I2C
should places at skb->data to be processed.

Pretty clear this code was never tested.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-06 14:16 [PATCH] nfc: st-nci: Fix an incorrect skb_buff size in 'st_nci_i2c_read()' Christophe JAILLET
2019-08-12  3:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2019-08-20  5:33   ` Christophe JAILLET

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