[PATCH v2] iommu/arm-smmu: Fix out-of-bounds dereference

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Nov 7 12:43:26 PST 2016


On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:25:09PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> When we iterate a master's config entries, what we generally care
> about is the entry's stream map index, rather than the entry index
> itself, so it's nice to have the iterator automatically assign the
> former from the latter. Unfortunately, booting with KASAN reveals
> the oversight that using a simple comma operator results in the
> entry index being dereferenced before being checked for validity,
> so we always access one element past the end of the fwspec array.
> 
> Flip things around so that the check always happens before the index
> may be dereferenced.
> 
> Fixes: adfec2e709d2 ("iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to iommu_fwspec")
> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> index f86683eec446..786d33900382 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/arm-smmu.c
> @@ -324,8 +324,10 @@ struct arm_smmu_master_cfg {
>  #define INVALID_SMENDX			-1
>  #define __fwspec_cfg(fw) ((struct arm_smmu_master_cfg *)fw->iommu_priv)
>  #define fwspec_smmu(fw)  (__fwspec_cfg(fw)->smmu)
> +#define fwspec_smendx(fw, i) \
> +	(i >= fw->num_ids ? INVALID_SMENDX : __fwspec_cfg(fw)->smendx[i])
>  #define for_each_cfg_sme(fw, i, idx) \
> -	for (i = 0; idx = __fwspec_cfg(fw)->smendx[i], i < fw->num_ids; ++i)
> +	for (i = 0; idx = fwspec_smendx(fw, i), i < fw->num_ids; ++i)

That's certainly more readable:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Joerg, if you haven't sent your fixes pull yet, please could you add this on
top? Otherwise, I'll queue it for 4.10, given that I think this only causes
a KASAN splat (the out-of-bounds read isn't ever used for anything).

Will



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