2023-07-24 12:27:23

by Oleksandr Natalenko

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Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/3] scsi: qedf: do not touch __user pointer in qedf_dbg_debug_cmd_read() directly

The qedf_dbg_debug_cmd_read() function invokes sprintf()
directly on a __user pointer, which may crash the kernel.

Avoid doing that by using a small on-stack buffer for sprintf()
and then calling simple_read_from_buffer() which does a proper
copy_to_user() call.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <[email protected]>
---
drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_debugfs.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_debugfs.c b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_debugfs.c
index 4d1b99569d490..f910af0029a2c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qedf/qedf_debugfs.c
@@ -138,15 +138,14 @@ qedf_dbg_debug_cmd_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buffer, size_t count,
loff_t *ppos)
{
int cnt;
+ char cbuf[35];
struct qedf_dbg_ctx *qedf_dbg =
(struct qedf_dbg_ctx *)filp->private_data;

QEDF_INFO(qedf_dbg, QEDF_LOG_DEBUGFS, "debug mask=0x%x\n", qedf_debug);
- cnt = sprintf(buffer, "debug mask = 0x%x\n", qedf_debug);
+ cnt = sprintf(cbuf, "debug mask = 0x%x\n", qedf_debug);

- cnt = min_t(int, count, cnt - *ppos);
- *ppos += cnt;
- return cnt;
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(buffer, count, ppos, cbuf, cnt);
}

static ssize_t
--
2.41.0