[PATCH] mtd: nand: check ecc->total sanity in nand_scan_tail

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Mon May 29 11:40:49 PDT 2017


On Thu, 25 May 2017 13:50:20 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:

> Drivers are supposed to set correct ecc->{size,strength,bytes} before
> calling nand_scan_tail(), but it does not complain about ecc->total
> bigger than oobsize.
> 
> In this case, chip->scan_bbt() crashes due to memory corruption, but
> it is hard to debug.  It would be kind to fail it earlier with a clear
> message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>


Applied to nand/next.

Thanks,

Boris

> ---
> 
> I was actually hit by this case.
> 
> I wasted half a day until I figured out my coding mistake in my
> Denali driver.  It will be helpful to check this in NAND core.
> 
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> index f4d686192717..14d6a5aa3ee8 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
> @@ -4970,6 +4970,11 @@ int nand_scan_tail(struct mtd_info *mtd)
>  		goto err_free;
>  	}
>  	ecc->total = ecc->steps * ecc->bytes;
> +	if (ecc->total > mtd->oobsize) {
> +		WARN(1, "Total number of ECC bytes exceeded oobsize\n");
> +		ret = -EINVAL;
> +		goto err_free;
> +	}
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The number of bytes available for a client to place data into




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