[PATCH v2] lib: sbi_pmu: check for index overflows

Anup Patel anup at brainfault.org
Fri Oct 6 05:02:45 PDT 2023


On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:34 PM Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> sbi_pmu_ctr_cfg_match() receives data from a lower privilege level mode.
> We must catch maliciously wrong values.
>
> We already check against total_ctrs. But we do not check that total_ctrs is
> less than SBI_PMU_HW_CTR_MAX + SBI_PMU_FW_CTR_MAX.
>
> Check that the number of hardware counters is in the valid range.
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1566114 Out-of-bounds write
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>

Applied this patch to the riscv/opensbi repo.

Thanks,
Anup

> ---
> v2:
>         check num_hw_ctrs
> ---
>  lib/sbi/sbi_pmu.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/sbi/sbi_pmu.c b/lib/sbi/sbi_pmu.c
> index 9694aae..f4c8fc4 100644
> --- a/lib/sbi/sbi_pmu.c
> +++ b/lib/sbi/sbi_pmu.c
> @@ -981,6 +981,9 @@ int sbi_pmu_init(struct sbi_scratch *scratch, bool cold_boot)
>                 else
>                         num_hw_ctrs = hpm_count + 1;
>
> +               if (num_hw_ctrs > SBI_PMU_HW_CTR_MAX)
> +                       return SBI_EINVAL;
> +
>                 total_ctrs = num_hw_ctrs + SBI_PMU_FW_CTR_MAX;
>         }
>
> --
> 2.40.1
>



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