On 20/07/17 10:56, Lad, Prabhakar wrote: > preparing for removal of VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS ioctl from You don't really prepare for removal. You make sure VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS no longer works with a minimal patch suitable for backporting. > davicni vpfe_capture driver because of following reasons: davicni -> davinci > > - This ioctl was never in public api and was only defined in kernel header. > - The function set_params constantly mixes up pointers and phys_addr_t > numbers. > - This is part of a 'VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS' ioctl command that is > described as an 'experimental ioctl that will change in future kernels'. > - The code to allocate the table never gets called after we copy_from_user > the user input over the kernel settings, and then compare them > for inequality. > - We then go on to use an address provided by user space as both the > __user pointer for input and pass it through phys_to_virt to come up > with a kernel pointer to copy the data to. This looks like a trivially > exploitable root hole. Add something like: "Due to these reasons we make sure this ioctl now returns -EINVAL and backport this patch as far as possible." Regards, Hans > > Fixes: 5f15fbb68fd7 ("V4L/DVB (12251): v4l: dm644x ccdc module for vpfe capture driver") > Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c | 22 ++-------------------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c > index e3fe3e0..1831bf5 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c > @@ -1719,27 +1719,9 @@ static long vpfe_param_handler(struct file *file, void *priv, > > switch (cmd) { > case VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS: > + ret = -EINVAL; > v4l2_warn(&vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev, > - "VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS: experimental ioctl\n"); > - if (ccdc_dev->hw_ops.set_params) { > - ret = ccdc_dev->hw_ops.set_params(param); > - if (ret) { > - v4l2_dbg(1, debug, &vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev, > - "Error setting parameters in CCDC\n"); > - goto unlock_out; > - } > - ret = vpfe_get_ccdc_image_format(vpfe_dev, > - &vpfe_dev->fmt); > - if (ret < 0) { > - v4l2_dbg(1, debug, &vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev, > - "Invalid image format at CCDC\n"); > - goto unlock_out; > - } > - } else { > - ret = -EINVAL; > - v4l2_dbg(1, debug, &vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev, > - "VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS not supported\n"); > - } > + "VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS not supported\n"); > break; > default: > ret = -ENOTTY; >