From: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, kjlu@umn.edu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/acr: Fix undefined behavior in nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl()
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:20:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <536c833413ccbe0b8ad653a50c5ea867bf975290.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfPC3N+H9Fu/gqpz@kroah.com>
Sigh-thank you for catching this - I had totally forgot about the umn.edu ban.
I pushed this already but I will go ahead and send a revert for this patch.
Will cc you on it as well.
On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 11:18 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:58:55AM +0800, Zhou Qingyang wrote:
> > In nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl(), the return value of kmalloc() is directly
> > passed to memcpy(), which could lead to undefined behavior on failure
> > of kmalloc().
> >
> > Fix this bug by using kmemdup() instead of kmalloc()+memcpy().
> >
> > This bug was found by a static analyzer.
> >
> > Builds with 'make allyesconfig' show no new warnings,
> > and our static analyzer no longer warns about this code.
> >
> > Fixes: 22dcda45a3d1 ("drm/nouveau/acr: implement new subdev to replace
> > "secure boot"")
> > Signed-off-by: Zhou Qingyang <zhou1615@umn.edu>
> > ---
> > The analysis employs differential checking to identify inconsistent
> > security operations (e.g., checks or kfrees) between two code paths
> > and confirms that the inconsistent operations are not recovered in the
> > current function or the callers, so they constitute bugs.
> >
> > Note that, as a bug found by static analysis, it can be a false
> > positive or hard to trigger. Multiple researchers have cross-reviewed
> > the bug.
> >
> > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c | 9 +++++----
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > index 667fa016496e..a6ea89a5d51a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/acr/hsfw.c
> > @@ -142,11 +142,12 @@ nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl(struct nvkm_acr *acr, const
> > char *name, int ver,
> >
> > hsfw->imem_size = desc->code_size;
> > hsfw->imem_tag = desc->start_tag;
> > - hsfw->imem = kmalloc(desc->code_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > - memcpy(hsfw->imem, data + desc->code_off, desc->code_size);
> > -
> > + hsfw->imem = kmemdup(data + desc->code_off, desc->code_size,
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> > nvkm_firmware_put(fw);
> > - return 0;
> > + if (!hsfw->imem)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > + else
> > + return 0;
> > }
> >
> > int
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
>
> As stated before, umn.edu is still not allowed to contribute to the
> Linux kernel. Please work with your administration to resolve this
> issue.
>
--
Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Software Engineer at Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-24 16:58 [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau/acr: Fix undefined behavior in nvkm_acr_hsfw_load_bl() Zhou Qingyang
2022-01-25 19:11 ` Lyude Paul
2022-01-28 10:18 ` Greg KH
2022-01-28 19:20 ` Lyude Paul [this message]
2022-01-28 19:53 ` Alex Deucher
2022-01-28 19:57 ` Lyude Paul
2022-01-29 8:32 ` Greg KH
2022-01-28 19:57 ` Karol Herbst
2022-01-28 20:01 ` Alex Deucher
2022-01-29 8:30 ` Greg KH
2022-01-29 14:18 ` Kangjie Lu
2022-01-29 14:47 ` Greg KH
2022-01-29 15:19 ` Kangjie Lu
2022-01-29 15:54 ` Greg KH
2022-01-29 8:24 ` Greg KH
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