[PATCH] net: ath10k: fix OOB: __ath10k_htt_rx_ring_fill_n

[Kalle Valo]

Zekun Shen <bruceshenzk at gmail.com> writes:

> The idx in __ath10k_htt_rx_ring_fill_n function lives in
> consistent dma region writable by the device. Malfunctional
> or malicious device could manipulate such idx to have a OOB
> write. Either by
>     htt->rx_ring.netbufs_ring[idx] = skb;
> or by
>     ath10k_htt_set_paddrs_ring(htt, paddr, idx);
>
> The idx can also be negative as it's signed, giving a large
> memory space to write to.
>
> It's possibly exploitable by corruptting a legit pointer with
> a skb pointer. And then fill skb with payload as rougue object.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zekun Shen <bruceshenzk at gmail.com>
> ---
> Part of the log here. Sometimes it appears as UAF when writing 
> to a freed memory by chance.
>
>  [   15.594376] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff887f5c1804f0
>  [   15.595483] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
>  [   15.596250] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
>  [   15.597013] PGD 0 P4D 0
>  [   15.597395] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
>  [   15.597967] CPU: 0 PID: 82 Comm: kworker/u2:2 Not tainted 5.6.0 #69
>  [   15.598843] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), 
>  BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
>  [   15.600438] Workqueue: ath10k_wq ath10k_core_register_work [ath10k_core]
>  [   15.601389] RIP: 0010:__ath10k_htt_rx_ring_fill_n 
>  (linux/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_rx.c:173) ath10k_core

I added the log to the commit log as it looks useful.

Also I made minor changes to the title and to the error message.

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