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From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	"Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
	"Sakari Ailus" <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Vandana BN" <bnvandana@gmail.com>,
	"Ezequiel Garcia" <ezequiel@collabora.com>,
	"Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] media/v4l2-core: Fix kernel-infoleak in video_put_user()
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:16:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200726221658.GB102357@PWN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200726221056.GJ28704@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:10:56AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Peilin,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:05:57PM -0400, Peilin Ye wrote:
> > video_put_user() is copying uninitialized stack memory to userspace. Fix
> > it by initializing `ev32` and `vb32` using memset().
> 
> How about mentioning that this is caused by the compiler not
> initializing the holes ? Maybe something along the lines of
> 
> video_put_user() is copying uninitialized stack memory to userspace due
> to the compiler not initializing holes in the structures declared on the
> stack. Fix it by initializing the structures using memset().
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

I see, that makes sense. I will send a v3.

Thank you,
Peilin Ye

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From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: "Niklas Söderlund" <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Sakari Ailus" <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	"Vandana BN" <bnvandana@gmail.com>,
	"Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
	"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	"Ezequiel Garcia" <ezequiel@collabora.com>,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] media/v4l2-core: Fix kernel-infoleak in video_put_user()
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:16:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200726221658.GB102357@PWN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200726221056.GJ28704@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:10:56AM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Peilin,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:05:57PM -0400, Peilin Ye wrote:
> > video_put_user() is copying uninitialized stack memory to userspace. Fix
> > it by initializing `ev32` and `vb32` using memset().
> 
> How about mentioning that this is caused by the compiler not
> initializing the holes ? Maybe something along the lines of
> 
> video_put_user() is copying uninitialized stack memory to userspace due
> to the compiler not initializing holes in the structures declared on the
> stack. Fix it by initializing the structures using memset().
> 
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

I see, that makes sense. I will send a v3.

Thank you,
Peilin Ye
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-26 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-26 16:44 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] media/v4l2-core: Fix kernel-infoleak in video_put_user() Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 16:44 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 17:30 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 17:30   ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 18:07   ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 18:07     ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:08     ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 22:08       ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 22:15       ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:15         ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 18:12   ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 18:12     ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:05 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v2] " Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:05   ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:10   ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 22:10     ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-07-26 22:16     ` Peilin Ye [this message]
2020-07-26 22:16       ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:27   ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v3] " Peilin Ye
2020-07-26 22:27     ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27  7:25     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27  7:25       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27  7:56       ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27  7:56         ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 13:16       ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 13:16         ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 14:05         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:05           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:14           ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 14:14             ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 14:20             ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:20               ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:46             ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 14:46               ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 15:30               ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 15:30                 ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 14:43           ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 14:43             ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 14:55             ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 14:55               ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-27 22:04         ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 22:04           ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28  9:00           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28  9:00             ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28 10:02           ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28 10:02             ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-27 22:33         ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27 22:33           ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28  9:10           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28  9:10             ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28  9:47           ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28  9:47             ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28 13:13             ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28 13:13               ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-28 12:22         ` Linus Walleij
2020-07-28 12:22           ` Linus Walleij
2020-07-28 13:06           ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28 13:06             ` Dan Carpenter
2020-07-28 13:58             ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-28 13:58               ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30  8:07               ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-07-30  8:07                 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-07-30  8:15                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30  8:15                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30  8:38                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-30  8:38                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-30  9:18                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30  9:18                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30 11:48                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-30 11:48                         ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-30 13:49                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-30 13:49                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-02 16:55         ` Peilin Ye
2020-08-02 16:55           ` Peilin Ye
2020-07-27  8:00     ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v4] " Peilin Ye
2020-07-27  8:00       ` Peilin Ye

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