[PATCH] pcmcia: avoid buffer overflow in pcmcia_setup_isa_irq
Christoph Fritz
chf.fritz at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 3 06:26:08 EDT 2010
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:40 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:38:19AM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > buffer overflow in next-tree's commit 6f0f38c45a8f2f511c25893e33011ff32fc811db:
> > size of array pcmcia_used_irq[] can be less than 32
> >
> > in drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
> > +static int pcmcia_setup_isa_irq(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev, int type)
> > +{
> > [..]
> > + for (try = 0; try < 64; try++) {
> > + irq = try % 32;
> > [..]
> > +
> > + /* avoid an IRQ which is already used by another PCMCIA card */
> > + if ((try < 32) && pcmcia_used_irq[irq])
> > + continue;
> >
> > drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
> > static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[NR_IRQS];
> >
> > arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
> > #define NR_IRQS_LEGACY 16
> > [..]
> > #else /* !CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC: */
> > # define NR_IRQS NR_IRQS_LEGACY
> > #endif
> >
> > ---
> > non-tested fix:
>
> What about this?
>
>
> [PATCH] pcmcia: avoid buffer overflow in pcmcia_setup_isa_irq
>
> NR_IRQS may be as low as 16, causing a (harmless?) buffer overflow in
> pcmcia_setup_isa_irq():
>
> static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[NR_IRQS];
>
> ...
>
> if ((try < 32) && pcmcia_used_irq[irq])
> continue;
>
> This is read-only, so if this address would be non-zero, it would just
> mean we would not attempt an IRQ >= NR_IRQS -- which would fail anyway!
> And as request_irq() fails for an irq >= NR_IRQS, the setting code path:
>
> pcmcia_used_irq[irq]++;
>
> is never reached as well.
>
> Reported-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz at googlemail.com>
> CC: stable at kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
> index d48437f..54aa1c2 100644
> --- a/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
> +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_resource.c
> @@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pcmcia_request_exclusive_irq);
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE
>
> /* mask of IRQs already reserved by other cards, we should avoid using them */
> -static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[NR_IRQS];
> +static u8 pcmcia_used_irq[32];
>
> static irqreturn_t test_action(int cpl, void *dev_id)
> {
> @@ -700,6 +700,9 @@ static int pcmcia_setup_isa_irq(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev, int type)
> for (try = 0; try < 64; try++) {
> irq = try % 32;
>
> + if (irq > NR_IRQS)
> + continue;
> +
> /* marked as available by driver, not blocked by userspace? */
> if (!((mask >> irq) & 1))
> continue;
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz at googlemail.com>
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