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From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc:     Charlie Sands <sandsch@northvilleschools.net>,
        gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
        phil@philpotter.co.uk, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paskripkin@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Fix unsafe memory access by memcmp
Date:   Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:29:48 +0200
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On luned? 4 aprile 2022 14:03:32 CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 01:25:37PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > On luned? 4 aprile 2022 12:50:41 CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:52:07PM -0400, Charlie Sands wrote:
> > > > This patch fixes sparse warnings about the memcmp function unsafely
> > > > accessing userspace memory without first copying it to kernel space.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Charlie Sands <sandsch@northvilleschools.net>
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > > V2: Fixed checkpatch.pl warning and changed variable name as suggested
> > > > by Greg K. H. and improved error checking on the "copy_from_user" function as
> > > > suggested by Pavel Skripkin.
> > > > 
> > > >  drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------
> > > >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > > > index 7df213856d66..4b4eec2bde96 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > > > @@ -3233,23 +3233,28 @@ static int rtw_p2p_get(struct net_device *dev,
> > > >  			       struct iw_request_info *info,
> > > >  			       union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *extra)
> > > >  {
> > > > -	if (!memcmp(wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
> > > > +	char wrqu_data[9];
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (copy_from_user(wrqu_data, wrqu->data.pointer, 9) != 0)
> > > > +		return 0;
> > > 
> > > return -EFAULT;  We can't assume that that user wants to copy 9 bytes
> > > especially when they're passing a 4 character + NUL string.
> > > 
> > > This is a custom ioctl.  Called from ioctl_private_iw_point().
> > > 
> > > I think if you try to dereference a user pointer like this then it will
> > > cause a crash, right?  So that means no one has ever tested or used this
> > > code and we hopefully we can just delete it?
> > 
> > After a quick look, I'm pretty confident that we can also delete 
> > rtw_p2p_get2() and rtw_p2p_set() unless I'm overlooking something.
> 
> What are the problems with rtw_p2p_get2() and rtw_p2p_set()?
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
Is it safe to access user space pointers without using proper helpers? 
In those cases I mean: is it safe without using copy_from_user()?

As I said, perhaps I'm overlooking something. However my conclusions 
follow by your own argument.

If I understand what you wrote, you asked to delete rtw_p2p_get()
because it looks like nobody "has ever tested or used this code".

rtw_p2p_get2() and rtw_p2p_set() use the same pattern of rtw_p2p_get()
when they access user space without using the proper helpers.

Therefore, I thought that, if you suggest to delete rtw_p2p_get(), why
not also rtw_p2p_set() and rtw_p2p_get2() that use the same unsafe
accesses?

What am I still missing?

Thanks,

Fabio M. De Francesco