[PATCH] ath10k: fix information leak in debugfs

Venkateswara Naralasetty vnaralas at codeaurora.org
Wed Jan 17 21:11:46 PST 2018


During write to some of debugfs in ath10k, few variables
exposing stack data when process user input. which leads
to possible information leak.

This patch fix this issue by initializing buffer and checks
the return valure of 'simple_write_to_buffer'.

Signed-off-by: Venkateswara Naralasetty <vnaralas at codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c       | 21 +++++++++---------
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debugfs_sta.c | 31 ++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
index 6d836a2..e0120ff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Atheros Communications Inc.
  * Copyright (c) 2011-2017 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -979,13 +980,13 @@ static ssize_t ath10k_write_htt_max_amsdu_ampdu(struct file *file,
 {
 	struct ath10k *ar = file->private_data;
 	int res;
-	char buf[64];
+	char buf[64] = {0};
 	unsigned int amsdu, ampdu;
 
-	simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
-
-	/* make sure that buf is null terminated */
-	buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = 0;
+	res = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos,
+				     user_buf, count);
+	if (res <= 0)
+		return res;
 
 	res = sscanf(buf, "%u %u", &amsdu, &ampdu);
 
@@ -1035,14 +1036,14 @@ static ssize_t ath10k_write_fw_dbglog(struct file *file,
 {
 	struct ath10k *ar = file->private_data;
 	int ret;
-	char buf[96];
+	char buf[96] = {0};
 	unsigned int log_level;
 	u64 mask;
 
-	simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
-
-	/* make sure that buf is null terminated */
-	buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = 0;
+	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos,
+				     user_buf, count);
+	if (ret <= 0)
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = sscanf(buf, "%llx %u", &mask, &log_level);
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debugfs_sta.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debugfs_sta.c
index b260b09..5583854 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debugfs_sta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debugfs_sta.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
  * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -136,12 +137,12 @@ static ssize_t ath10k_dbg_sta_write_addba(struct file *file,
 	struct ath10k *ar = arsta->arvif->ar;
 	u32 tid, buf_size;
 	int ret;
-	char buf[64];
+	char buf[64] = {0};
 
-	simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
-
-	/* make sure that buf is null terminated */
-	buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0';
+	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos,
+				     user_buf, count);
+	if (ret <= 0)
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = sscanf(buf, "%u %u", &tid, &buf_size);
 	if (ret != 2)
@@ -187,12 +188,12 @@ static ssize_t ath10k_dbg_sta_write_addba_resp(struct file *file,
 	struct ath10k *ar = arsta->arvif->ar;
 	u32 tid, status;
 	int ret;
-	char buf[64];
-
-	simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
+	char buf[64] = {0};
 
-	/* make sure that buf is null terminated */
-	buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0';
+	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos,
+				     user_buf, count);
+	if (ret <= 0)
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = sscanf(buf, "%u %u", &tid, &status);
 	if (ret != 2)
@@ -237,12 +238,12 @@ static ssize_t ath10k_dbg_sta_write_delba(struct file *file,
 	struct ath10k *ar = arsta->arvif->ar;
 	u32 tid, initiator, reason;
 	int ret;
-	char buf[64];
-
-	simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos, user_buf, count);
+	char buf[64] = {0};
 
-	/* make sure that buf is null terminated */
-	buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0';
+	ret = simple_write_to_buffer(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, ppos,
+				     user_buf, count);
+	if (ret <= 0)
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = sscanf(buf, "%u %u %u", &tid, &initiator, &reason);
 	if (ret != 3)
-- 
2.7.4




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