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firewire: cdev: fix user memory corruption (i386 userland on amd64 kernel)
authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Sat, 6 Oct 2012 12:12:56 +0000 (14:12 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:32:39 +0000 (09:32 -0700)
commiteba428c5ad1614ae139610d3becb504ce2637187
tree2a8454800b50f17f7ad6047a4f82a5f323b8a0d5
parentd16325665f213bfb893c978f54d43b142a0daecd
firewire: cdev: fix user memory corruption (i386 userland on amd64 kernel)

commit 790198f74c9d1b46b6a89504361b1a844670d050 upstream.

Fix two bugs of the /dev/fw* character device concerning the
FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO ioctl with nonzero fw_cdev_get_info.bus_reset.
(Practically all /dev/fw* clients issue this ioctl right after opening
the device.)

Both bugs are caused by sizeof(struct fw_cdev_event_bus_reset) being 36
without natural alignment and 40 with natural alignment.

 1) Memory corruption, affecting i386 userland on amd64 kernel:
    Userland reserves a 36 bytes large buffer, kernel writes 40 bytes.
    This has been first found and reported against libraw1394 if
    compiled with gcc 4.7 which happens to order libraw1394's stack such
    that the bug became visible as data corruption.

 2) Information leak, affecting all kernel architectures except i386:
    4 bytes of random kernel stack data were leaked to userspace.

Hence limit the respective copy_to_user() to the 32-bit aligned size of
struct fw_cdev_event_bus_reset.

Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c