Patch "scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer()" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer()

to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scsi-arcmsr-buffer-overflow-in-arcmsr_iop_message_xfer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7bc2b55a5c030685b399bb65b6baa9ccc3d1f167 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:44:56 +0300
Subject: scsi: arcmsr: Buffer overflow in arcmsr_iop_message_xfer()

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit 7bc2b55a5c030685b399bb65b6baa9ccc3d1f167 upstream.

We need to put an upper bound on "user_len" so the memcpy() doesn't
overflow.

Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c
@@ -2388,7 +2388,8 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc
 	}
 	case ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER: {
 		unsigned char *ver_addr;
-		int32_t user_len, cnt2end;
+		uint32_t user_len;
+		int32_t cnt2end;
 		uint8_t *pQbuffer, *ptmpuserbuffer;
 		ver_addr = kmalloc(ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!ver_addr) {
@@ -2397,6 +2398,11 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc
 		}
 		ptmpuserbuffer = ver_addr;
 		user_len = pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.Length;
+		if (user_len > ARCMSR_API_DATA_BUFLEN) {
+			retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL;
+			kfree(ver_addr);
+			goto message_out;
+		}
 		memcpy(ptmpuserbuffer,
 			pcmdmessagefld->messagedatabuffer, user_len);
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&acb->wqbuffer_lock, flags);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.7/scsi-arcmsr-simplify-user_len-checking.patch
queue-4.7/scsi-arcmsr-buffer-overflow-in-arcmsr_iop_message_xfer.patch