Re: [PATCH 2/2] monitor/rfcomm: Fix a potential memory access issue

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Hi,

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 4:08 AM,  <mcchou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Miao-chen Chou <mcchou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch introduces a temp variable to prevent the access to an unaligned
> struct member. Since the struct rfcomm_rpn is used from PDU, enforcing alignment
> is not a solution due to padding.
> ---
>  monitor/rfcomm.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/monitor/rfcomm.c b/monitor/rfcomm.c
> index b32ad40..7f1f23e 100644
> --- a/monitor/rfcomm.c
> +++ b/monitor/rfcomm.c
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static inline bool mcc_rpn(struct rfcomm_frame *rfcomm_frame, uint8_t indent)
>  {
>         struct l2cap_frame *frame = &rfcomm_frame->l2cap_frame;
>         struct rfcomm_rpn rpn;
> +       uint16_t pm;
>
>         if (!l2cap_frame_get_u8(frame, &rpn.dlci))
>                 return false;
> @@ -235,8 +236,11 @@ static inline bool mcc_rpn(struct rfcomm_frame *rfcomm_frame, uint8_t indent)
>                 GET_RPN_RTCI(rpn.io), GET_RPN_RTCO(rpn.io), rpn.xon,
>                 rpn.xoff);
>
> -       if (!l2cap_frame_get_le16(frame, &rpn.pm))
> +       /* prevent unaligned memory access */
> +       pm = rpn.pm;
> +       if (!l2cap_frame_get_le16(frame, &pm))
>                 return false;
> +       rpn.pm = pm;

Not sure what was the intention here but if you were to introduce a
new variable for pm then we don't need rpn struct anymore.

>
>         print_field("%*cpm 0x%04x", indent, ' ', rpn.pm);
>
> @@ -265,6 +269,7 @@ static inline bool mcc_pn(struct rfcomm_frame *rfcomm_frame, uint8_t indent)
>  {
>         struct l2cap_frame *frame = &rfcomm_frame->l2cap_frame;
>         struct rfcomm_pn pn;
> +       uint16_t mtu;
>
>         /* rfcomm_pn struct is defined in rfcomm.h */
>
> @@ -284,8 +289,11 @@ static inline bool mcc_pn(struct rfcomm_frame *rfcomm_frame, uint8_t indent)
>         if (!l2cap_frame_get_u8(frame, &pn.ack_timer))
>                 return false;
>
> -       if (!l2cap_frame_get_le16(frame, &pn.mtu))
> +       /* prevent unaligned memory access */
> +       mtu = pn.mtu;
> +       if (!l2cap_frame_get_le16(frame, &mtu))
>                 return false;
> +       pn.mtu = mtu;

Similar problem here, but Im not exactly sure why this is a problem
since l2cap_frame_get_le16 does already takes care of unligned access.

>         if (!l2cap_frame_get_u8(frame, &pn.max_retrans))
>                 return false;
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>
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