[PATCH v2 7/9] vdpa: solidrun: Fix potential UB bug with devres

Philipp Stanner pstanner at redhat.com
Wed Aug 21 05:25:57 PDT 2024


On Wed, 2024-08-21 at 08:12 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 09:18:40AM +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > In psnet_open_pf_bar() a string later passed to
> > pcim_iomap_regions() is
> > placed on the stack. Neither pcim_iomap_regions() nor the functions
> > it
> > calls copy that string.
> > 
> > Should the string later ever be used, this, consequently, causes
> > undefined behavior since the stack frame will by then have
> > disappeared.
> > 
> > Fix the bug by allocating the string on the heap through
> > devm_kasprintf().
> > 
> > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org	# v6.3
> > Fixes: 51a8f9d7f587 ("virtio: vdpa: new SolidNET DPU driver.")
> > Reported-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>
> > Closes:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/74e9109a-ac59-49e2-9b1d-d825c9c9f891@wanadoo.fr/
> > Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy at kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <pstanner at redhat.com>
> 
> I don't get why is this a part of a cleanup series -
> looks like an unrelated bugfix?

It was discovered in the discussion of v1 of this series.

It indeed is an unrelated bugfix and could be merged separately. But my
patch #8 depends on it.

So it would be convenient to merge it into mainline through this
series, and have stable just pick patch #7.

Or should it be done differently, in your opinion?

P.

> 
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/vdpa/solidrun/snet_main.c | 7 +++++--
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/solidrun/snet_main.c
> > b/drivers/vdpa/solidrun/snet_main.c
> > index 99428a04068d..4d42a05d70fc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vdpa/solidrun/snet_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/solidrun/snet_main.c
> > @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ static const struct vdpa_config_ops
> > snet_config_ops = {
> >  
> >  static int psnet_open_pf_bar(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct psnet
> > *psnet)
> >  {
> > -	char name[50];
> > +	char *name;
> >  	int ret, i, mask = 0;
> >  	/* We don't know which BAR will be used to communicate..
> >  	 * We will map every bar with len > 0.
> > @@ -573,7 +573,10 @@ static int psnet_open_pf_bar(struct pci_dev
> > *pdev, struct psnet *psnet)
> >  		return -ENODEV;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "psnet[%s]-bars",
> > pci_name(pdev));
> > +	name = devm_kasprintf(&pdev->dev, GFP_KERNEL, "psnet[%s]-
> > bars", pci_name(pdev));
> > +	if (!name)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> >  	ret = pcim_iomap_regions(pdev, mask, name);
> >  	if (ret) {
> >  		SNET_ERR(pdev, "Failed to request and map PCI
> > BARs\n");
> > -- 
> > 2.46.0
> 




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