Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1] i2c: pm_smbus: check smb_index before block transfer write

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 12/6/18 1:18 PM, P J P wrote:
> From: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
> 
> While performing block transfer write in smb_ioport_writeb(),
> 'smb_index' is incremented and used to index smb_data[] array.
> Check 'smb_index' value to avoid OOB access.
> 
> Note that this bug is exploitable by a guest to escape
> from the virtual machine. However the commit which
> introduced the bug was only made after the 3.0 release,
> and so it is not present in any released QEMU versions.
> 
> Fixes: 38ad4fae43 i2c: pm_smbus: Add block transfer capability
> Reported-by: Michael Hanselmann <public@hansmi.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

> ---
>  hw/i2c/pm_smbus.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> Update v1: add note about issue being introduced after 3.0 release
>   -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg01115.html
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i2c/pm_smbus.c b/hw/i2c/pm_smbus.c
> index 685a2378ed..03062740cc 100644
> --- a/hw/i2c/pm_smbus.c
> +++ b/hw/i2c/pm_smbus.c
> @@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ static void smb_ioport_writeb(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t val,
>              uint8_t read = s->smb_addr & 0x01;
>  
>              s->smb_index++;
> +            if (s->smb_index >= PM_SMBUS_MAX_MSG_SIZE) {
> +                s->smb_index = 0;
> +            }
>              if (!read && s->smb_index == s->smb_data0) {
>                  uint8_t prot = (s->smb_ctl >> 2) & 0x07;
>                  uint8_t cmd = s->smb_cmd;
>