[PATCH 1/2] staging: vchiq: Fix bulk userdata handling

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Jan 4 13:31:34 EST 2021


On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 12:09:27PM +0000, Phil Elwell wrote:
> The addition of the local 'userdata' pointer to
> vchiq_irq_queue_bulk_tx_rx omitted the case where neither BLOCKING nor
> WAITING modes are used, in which case the value provided by the
> caller is replaced with a NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 4184da4f316a ("staging: vchiq: fix __user annotations")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil at raspberrypi.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> index f500a7043805..2a8883673ba1 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ static int vchiq_irq_queue_bulk_tx_rx(struct vchiq_instance *instance,
>  	struct vchiq_service *service;
>  	struct bulk_waiter_node *waiter = NULL;
>  	bool found = false;
> -	void *userdata = NULL;
> +	void *userdata;
>  	int status = 0;
>  	int ret;
>  
> @@ -997,6 +997,8 @@ static int vchiq_irq_queue_bulk_tx_rx(struct vchiq_instance *instance,
>  			"found bulk_waiter %pK for pid %d", waiter,
>  			current->pid);
>  		userdata = &waiter->bulk_waiter;
> +	} else {
> +		userdata = args->userdata;

"args->userdata" is marked as a user pointer so we really don't want to
mix user and kernel pointers here.  Presumably this opens up a large
security hole.

regards,
dan carpenter




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