Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756847AbcDJSiP (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:38:15 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51695 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756657AbcDJSiE (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:38:04 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Jerry Hoemann , Dan Williams Subject: [PATCH 4.5 047/238] libnvdimm: Fix security issue with DSM IOCTL. Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:33:44 -0700 Message-Id: <20160410183458.943290599@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.0 In-Reply-To: <20160410183456.398741366@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160410183456.398741366@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 41 4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jerry Hoemann commit 07accfa9d1a8bac8262f6d24a94a54d2d1f35149 upstream. Code attempts to prevent certain IOCTL DSM from being called when device is opened read only. This security feature can be trivially overcome by changing the size portion of the ioctl_command which isn't used. Check only the _IOC_NR (i.e. the command). Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c @@ -513,10 +513,10 @@ static int __nd_ioctl(struct nvdimm_bus /* fail write commands (when read-only) */ if (read_only) - switch (ioctl_cmd) { - case ND_IOCTL_VENDOR: - case ND_IOCTL_SET_CONFIG_DATA: - case ND_IOCTL_ARS_START: + switch (cmd) { + case ND_CMD_VENDOR: + case ND_CMD_SET_CONFIG_DATA: + case ND_CMD_ARS_START: dev_dbg(&nvdimm_bus->dev, "'%s' command while read-only.\n", nvdimm ? nvdimm_cmd_name(cmd) : nvdimm_bus_cmd_name(cmd));