In general, accessing userspace memory beyond the length of the supplied
buffer in VFS read/write handlers can lead to both kernel memory corruption
(via kernel_read()/kernel_write(), which can e.g. be triggered via
sys_splice()) and privilege escalation inside userspace.
In this case, the affected files are in debugfs (and should therefore only
be accessible to root) and check that *pos is zero (which prevents the
sys_splice() trick). Therefore, this is not a security fix, but rather a
small cleanup.
Fix it by using simple_read_from_buffer() instead of custom logic.
Fixes: 4a2da0b8c078 ("IB/mlx5: Add debug control parameters for congestion control")
Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cong.c | 9 +--------
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 20 ++------------------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cong.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cong.c
index 985fa2637390..7e4e358a4fd8 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cong.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cong.c
@@ -359,9 +359,6 @@ static ssize_t get_param(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
int ret;
char lbuf[11];
- if (*pos)
- return 0;
-
ret = mlx5_ib_get_cc_params(param->dev, param->port_num, offset, &var);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -370,11 +367,7 @@ static ssize_t get_param(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
- if (copy_to_user(buf, lbuf, ret))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- *pos += ret;
- return ret;
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, pos, lbuf, ret);
}
static const struct file_operations dbg_cc_fops = {
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
index 90a9c461cedc..37847add6f74 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -310,19 +310,11 @@ static ssize_t size_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
char lbuf[20];
int err;
- if (*pos)
- return 0;
-
err = snprintf(lbuf, sizeof(lbuf), "%d\n", ent->size);
if (err < 0)
return err;
- if (copy_to_user(buf, lbuf, err))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- *pos += err;
-
- return err;
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, pos, lbuf, err);
}
static const struct file_operations size_fops = {
@@ -372,19 +364,11 @@ static ssize_t limit_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
char lbuf[20];
int err;
- if (*pos)
- return 0;
-
err = snprintf(lbuf, sizeof(lbuf), "%d\n", ent->limit);
if (err < 0)
return err;
- if (copy_to_user(buf, lbuf, err))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- *pos += err;
-
- return err;
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, pos, lbuf, err);
}
static const struct file_operations limit_fops = {
--
2.18.0.399.gad0ab374a1-goog
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