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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: johan@kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, somlo@cmu.edu
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix sysfs information leak" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:42:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <164249536725446@kroah.com> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 1b656e9aad7f4886ed466094d1dc5ee4dd900d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:25:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix sysfs information leak

Make sure to always NUL-terminate file names retrieved from the firmware
to avoid accessing data beyond the entry slab buffer and exposing it
through sysfs in case the firmware data is corrupt.

Fixes: 75f3e8e47f38 ("firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 4.6
Cc: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201132528.30025-4-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
index ccb7ed62452f..f08e056ed0ae 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
 	/* set file entry information */
 	entry->size = be32_to_cpu(f->size);
 	entry->select = be16_to_cpu(f->select);
-	memcpy(entry->name, f->name, FW_CFG_MAX_FILE_PATH);
+	strscpy(entry->name, f->name, FW_CFG_MAX_FILE_PATH);
 
 	/* register entry under "/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/" */
 	err = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_entry_ktype,


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