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scsi: core: Fix legacy /proc parsing buffer overflow
authorTony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:25:40 +0000 (14:25 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:27:30 +0000 (18:27 +0200)
commit0e1605ec5bea016117bc6d9d0bfe95906c014c7a
treefea304524071644227e29f0028b2cc9e0f8be9b6
parentf3f0f95a023370561a9b4d2028308f8452f1e7d1
scsi: core: Fix legacy /proc parsing buffer overflow

commit 9426d3cef5000824e5f24f80ed5f42fb935f2488 upstream.

(lightly modified commit message mostly by Linus Torvalds)

The parsing code for /proc/scsi/scsi is disgusting and broken.  We should
have just used 'sscanf()' or something simple like that, but the logic may
actually predate our kernel sscanf library routine for all I know.  It
certainly predates both git and BK histories.

And we can't change it to be something sane like that now, because the
string matching at the start is done case-insensitively, and the separator
parsing between numbers isn't done at all, so *any* separator will work,
including a possible terminating NUL character.

This interface is root-only, and entirely for legacy use, so there is
absolutely no point in trying to tighten up the parsing.  Because any
separator has traditionally worked, it's entirely possible that people have
used random characters rather than the suggested space.

So don't bother to try to pretty it up, and let's just make a minimal patch
that can be back-ported and we can forget about this whole sorry thing for
another two decades.

Just make it at least not read past the end of the supplied data.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/b570f5fe-cb7c-863a-6ed9-f6774c219b88@cybernetics.com/
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin K Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c