On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 02:02:11PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The "fix" struct has a 2 byte hole after ->ywrapstep and the
> > "fix = info->fix;" assignment doesn't necessarily clear it. It depends
> > on the compiler.
> >
> > Fixes: 1f5e31d7e55a ("fbmem: don't call copy_from/to_user() with mutex held")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > I have 13 more similar places to patch... I'm not totally sure I
> > understand all the issues involved.
>
> What I have done in a similar situation with struct siginfo, is that
> where the structure first appears I have initialized it with memset,
> and then field by field.
>
> Then when the structure is copied I copy the structure with memcpy.
>
> That ensures all of the bytes in the original structure are initialized
> and that all of the bytes are copied.
>
> The goal is to avoid memory that has values of the previous users of
> that memory region from leaking to userspace. Which depending on who
> the previous user of that memory region is could tell userspace
> information about what the kernel is doing that it should not be allowed
> to find out.
>
> I tried to trace through where "info" and thus presumably "info->fix" is
> coming from and only made it as far as register_framebuffer. Given
> that I suspect a local memset, and then a field by field copy right
> before copy_to_user might be a sound solution. But ick. That is a lot
> of fields to copy.
I know it might sound quite inefficient, but what about making struct
fb_fix_screeninfo __packed?
This doesn't solve other potential similar issues, but for this
particular case it could be a reasonable and simple fix.
-Andrea
