[PATCH] hwmon: (aspeed-pwm-tacho) Avoid possible buffer overflow

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Fri Jul 3 18:17:44 EDT 2020


On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 02:15:18PM +0300, Evgeny Novikov wrote:
> aspeed_create_fan() reads a pwm_port value using of_property_read_u32().
> If pwm_port will be more than ARRAY_SIZE(pwm_port_params), there will be
> a buffer overflow in
> aspeed_create_pwm_port()->aspeed_set_pwm_port_enable(). The patch fixes
> the potential buffer overflow.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evgeny Novikov <novikov at ispras.ru>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/aspeed-pwm-tacho.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/aspeed-pwm-tacho.c b/drivers/hwmon/aspeed-pwm-tacho.c
> index 33fb54845bf6..3d8239fd66ed 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/aspeed-pwm-tacho.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/aspeed-pwm-tacho.c
> @@ -851,6 +851,8 @@ static int aspeed_create_fan(struct device *dev,
>  	ret = of_property_read_u32(child, "reg", &pwm_port);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> +	if (pwm_port >= ARRAY_SIZE(pwm_port_params))
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	aspeed_create_pwm_port(priv, (u8)pwm_port);
>  
>  	ret = of_property_count_u8_elems(child, "cooling-levels");



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