From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>,
Jonathan Marek <jonathan@marek.ca>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] misc: fastrpc: restrict user apps from sending kernel RPC messages
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 19:50:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YD03ew7+6v0XPh6l@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA8EJprTwqFWfPMjLrA2T0rJ=D3btLFHwY33VVJka1Og-9UeAQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 08:45:34PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 18:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 06:34:10PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 11:25, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:26:58PM +0300, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> > > > > Verify that user applications are not using the kernel RPC message
> > > > > handle to restrict them from directly attaching to guest OS on the
> > > > > remote subsystem. This is a port of CVE-2019-2308 fix.
> > > >
> > > > A port of the fix of what to what?
> > >
> > > I'm sorry for the confusion. It is a port of the original
> > > Qualcomm/CodeAurora fix to the upstream driver.
> > >
> > > See https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.9/commit/?id=cc2e11eeb988964af72309f71b0fb21c11ed6ca9,
> >
> > So this is a fix from 2019 that you never submitted upstream causing all
> > of these kernels to be vulnerable?
>
> It seems there is some kind of confusion here.
> Srinivas and Thierry have developed the fastrpc driver. It is not the
> same as the driver developed by Qualcomm. However in this case it
> suffers from the same problem as the original adsprpc driver..
> We have submitted the fix as soon as we've noticed the issue.
Ah, that makes more sense, thanks.
So really, it's not the same CVE issue, aren't they fun? :)
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-01 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 19:26 [PATCH v2] misc: fastrpc: restrict user apps from sending kernel RPC messages Dmitry Baryshkov
2021-02-13 8:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-01 15:34 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2021-03-01 15:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-01 17:45 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2021-03-01 18:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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