[PATCH v2] i2c:at91: add bound checking on SMBus block length bytes

Marek Roszko mark.roszko at gmail.com
Wed Aug 20 18:39:41 PDT 2014


The driver was not bound checking the received length byte to ensure it was within the
the buffer size that is allocated for SMBus blocks. This resulted in buffer overflows
whenever an invalid length byte was received.
It also failed to ensure the length byte was not zero. If it received zero, it would end up
in an infinite loop as the at91_twi_read_next_byte function returned immediately without
allowing RHR to be read to clear the RXRDY interrupt.

Tested agaisnt a SMBus compliant battery.

Signed-off-by: Marek Roszko <mark.roszko at gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com>
---
Change from v1:
fixed typo in commit message
reworded message slightly to be specifically say length byte

 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
index e95f9ba..ec4ff33 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ struct at91_twi_dev {
 	unsigned twi_cwgr_reg;
 	struct at91_twi_pdata *pdata;
 	bool use_dma;
+	bool recv_len_abort;
 	struct at91_twi_dma dma;
 };
 
@@ -267,12 +268,24 @@ static void at91_twi_read_next_byte(struct at91_twi_dev *dev)
 	*dev->buf = at91_twi_read(dev, AT91_TWI_RHR) & 0xff;
 	--dev->buf_len;
 
+	/* return if aborting, we only needed to read RHR to clear RXRDY*/
+	if (dev->recv_len_abort)
+		return;
+
 	/* handle I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA */
 	if (unlikely(dev->msg->flags & I2C_M_RECV_LEN)) {
-		dev->msg->flags &= ~I2C_M_RECV_LEN;
-		dev->buf_len += *dev->buf;
-		dev->msg->len = dev->buf_len + 1;
-		dev_dbg(dev->dev, "received block length %d\n", dev->buf_len);
+		/* ensure length byte is a valid value */
+		if (*dev->buf <= I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX && *dev->buf > 0) {
+			dev->msg->flags &= ~I2C_M_RECV_LEN;
+			dev->buf_len += *dev->buf;
+			dev->msg->len = dev->buf_len + 1;
+			dev_dbg(dev->dev, "received block length %d\n",
+					 dev->buf_len);
+		} else {
+			/* abort and send the stop by reading one more byte */
+			dev->recv_len_abort = true;
+			dev->buf_len = 1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* send stop if second but last byte has been read */
@@ -444,6 +457,12 @@ static int at91_do_twi_transfer(struct at91_twi_dev *dev)
 		ret = -EIO;
 		goto error;
 	}
+	if (dev->recv_len_abort) {
+		dev_err(dev->dev, "invalid smbus block length recvd\n");
+		ret = -EPROTO;
+		goto error;
+	}
+
 	dev_dbg(dev->dev, "transfer complete\n");
 
 	return 0;
@@ -500,6 +519,7 @@ static int at91_twi_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_msg *msg, int num)
 	dev->buf_len = m_start->len;
 	dev->buf = m_start->buf;
 	dev->msg = m_start;
+	dev->recv_len_abort = false;
 
 	ret = at91_do_twi_transfer(dev);
 
-- 
1.7.10.4




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