Oops. I send this to Mauro's old email address. Sorry about that.
regards,
dan carpenter
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:38:07PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I'd like to send this patch except that it "breaks"
> cx24116_send_diseqc_msg(). The cx24116 driver accepts ->msg_len values
> up to 24 but it looks like it's just copying 16 bytes past the end of
> the ->msg[] array so it's already broken.
>
> cmd->msg_len is an unsigned char. The comment next to the struct
> declaration says that valid values are are 3-6. Some of the drivers
> check that this is true, but most don't and it could cause memory
> corruption.
>
> Some examples of functions which don't check are:
> ttusbdecfe_dvbs_diseqc_send_master_cmd()
> cx24123_send_diseqc_msg()
> ds3000_send_diseqc_msg()
> etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx>
> ---
> This is a static checker fix and I haven't tested it but the security
> implications are quite bad so we should fix this.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
> index 57601c0..3d1eee6 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
> @@ -2267,7 +2267,13 @@ static int dvb_frontend_ioctl_legacy(struct file *file,
>
> case FE_DISEQC_SEND_MASTER_CMD:
> if (fe->ops.diseqc_send_master_cmd) {
> - err = fe->ops.diseqc_send_master_cmd(fe, (struct dvb_diseqc_master_cmd*) parg);
> + struct dvb_diseqc_master_cmd *cmd = parg;
> +
> + if (cmd->msg_len >= 3 && cmd->msg_len <= 6)
> + err = fe->ops.diseqc_send_master_cmd(fe, cmd);
> + else
> + err = -EINVAL;
> +
> fepriv->state = FESTATE_DISEQC;
> fepriv->status = 0;
> }
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