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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Max Staudt <max@enpas.org>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-can@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] can: can327: fix snprintf() limit in can327_handle_prompt()
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:57:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ff913b9-93b3-4636-b0f6-6e874f813d2f@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6db4d783-6db2-4b86-887c-3c95d6763774@wanadoo.fr>

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 06:34:49PM +0900, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> On 14/11/2024 at 18:03, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > This code is printing hex values to the &local_txbuf buffer and it's
> > using the snprintf() function to try prevent buffer overflows.  The
> > problem is that it's not passing the correct limit to the snprintf()
> > function so the limit doesn't do anything.  On each iteration we print
> > two digits so the remaining size should also decrease by two, but
> > instead it passes the sizeof() the entire buffer each time.
> > 
> > If the frame->len were too long it would result in a buffer overflow.
> 
> But, can frame->len be too long? Classical CAN frame maximum length is 8
> bytes. And I do not see a path for a malformed frame to reach this part of
> the driver.
> 
> If such a path exists, I think this should be explained. Else, I am just not
> sure if this needs a Fixes: tag.
> 

Even when bugs don't affect runtime we still assign a Fixes tag, but we don't
CC stable.  There is no way that passing the wrong size was intentional.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-14  9:03 [PATCH net] can: can327: fix snprintf() limit in can327_handle_prompt() Dan Carpenter
2024-11-14  9:19 ` Max Staudt
2024-11-14  9:26   ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-14  9:29     ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-14 10:11       ` Max Staudt
2024-11-14  9:34 ` Vincent Mailhol
2024-11-14  9:57   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2024-11-14 12:35     ` Vincent Mailhol
2024-11-14 13:34       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2024-11-14 14:54         ` Vincent Mailhol
2024-11-14 15:08           ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-14 15:24             ` Vincent Mailhol
2024-11-14 15:42               ` Dan Carpenter
2024-11-19  0:48                 ` Max Staudt

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