The patch titled drm: fix leak of uninitialized data to userspace has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was drm-fix-leak-of-uninitialized-data-to-userspace-2.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drm: fix leak of uninitialized data to userspace From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [ 175.375036] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (f65d2294) > [ 175.375049] 7063693a303030303a30303a30322e3000a76c080800000000a76c080e000000 > [ 175.375096] i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u u u u u u u u u u u u > [ 175.375137] ^ > [ 175.375142] > [ 175.375148] Pid: 2288, comm: Xorg Not tainted (2.6.27-tipskw-00069-g37cb0b7-dirty #81) 900 > [ 175.375155] EIP: 0060:[<c020d283>] EFLAGS: 00003246 CPU: 0 > [ 175.375169] EIP is at __copy_to_user_ll+0x43/0x60 > [ 175.375174] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000028 ECX: 00000005 EDX: f65d2280 > [ 175.375180] ESI: f65d2294 EDI: 086cb6b4 EBP: f631bef4 ESP: c055bd68 > [ 175.375186] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 > [ 175.375191] CR0: 8005003b CR2: f67c1c44 CR3: 36368000 CR4: 000006c0 > [ 175.375197] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 > [ 175.375202] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 > [ 175.375206] [<c020d6f3>] copy_to_user+0x43/0x60 > [ 175.375214] [<c028df28>] drm_getunique+0x38/0x50 > [ 175.375224] [<c028d329>] drm_ioctl+0x1b9/0x2f0 > [ 175.375231] [<c0188a07>] vfs_ioctl+0x67/0x70 > [ 175.375239] [<c0188a6c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x5c/0x270 > [ 175.375246] [<c0188cbe>] sys_ioctl+0x3e/0x60 > [ 175.375253] [<c010336d>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x35 > [ 175.375261] [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff The hexdump decodes to: vegardno@thuin ~ $ ./a.out 7063693a303030303a30303a30322e3000a76c080800000000a76c080e000000 pci:0000:00:02.0<0><167>l<8><8><0><0><0><0><167>l<8><14><0><0><0> ...so drm_getunique() is trying to copy some uninitialized data to userspace. The ECX register contains the number of words that are left to copy -- so there are 5 * 4 = 20 bytes left. The offset of the first uninitialized byte (counting from the start of the string) is also 20 (i.e. 0xf65d2294&((1 << 5)-1) == 20). So somebody tried to copy 40 bytes when the string was only 19 long. In drm_set_busid() we have this code: dev->unique_len = 40; dev->unique = drm_alloc(dev->unique_len + 1, DRM_MEM_DRIVER); ... len = snprintf(dev->unique, dev->unique_len, "pci:%04x:%02x:%02x.%d", ...so it seems that dev->unique is never updated to reflect the actual length of the string. The remaining bytes (20 in this case) are random uninitialized bytes that are copied into userspace. This patch fixes the problem by setting dev->unique_len after the snprintf(). Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c~drm-fix-leak-of-uninitialized-data-to-userspace-2 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c~drm-fix-leak-of-uninitialized-data-to-userspace-2 +++ a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static int drm_set_busid(struct drm_devi return -EBUSY; master->unique_len = 40; - master->unique = drm_alloc(master->unique_len + 1, DRM_MEM_DRIVER); + master->unique = drm_alloc(master->unique_len, DRM_MEM_DRIVER); if (master->unique == NULL) return -ENOMEM; @@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ static int drm_set_busid(struct drm_devi dev->pdev->bus->number, PCI_SLOT(dev->pdev->devfn), PCI_FUNC(dev->pdev->devfn)); - if (len > master->unique_len) + if (len >= master->unique_len) DRM_ERROR("buffer overflow"); + else + master->unique_len = len; dev->devname = drm_alloc(strlen(dev->driver->pci_driver.name) + master->unique_len + _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch vfs-fix-switch_names-breakage-in-short-to-short-case.patch inotify-fix-type-errors-in-interfaces.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html