Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Prevent possibile overflow

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Hi Evgeny,

On Wed, 2021-08-04 at 13:48 +0300, Evgeny Novikov wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Your patch fixes the out of bound issue, but I have another concern 
> regarding possible incomplete initialization of first 8 elements of
> the 
> lpm_priority array that is declared on the stack and is not
> initialized, 
> say, with zeroes. Yet again due to some invalid values coming from
> the 
> register, it is not guaranteed that something meaningful will be 
> assigned for all first 8 elements of lpm_priority in the first cycle
> in 
> pmc_core_get_low_power_modes(). In the second cycle this function 
> accesses all these elements from lpm_priority. Though there is test 
> "!(BIT(mode) & lpm_en)", it can pass accidentally, thus some
> unexpected 
> values can be stored to "pmcdev->lpm_en_modes[i++]" and exposed
> later.

I sent out a v2 that validates the priority levels are within bounds
and meaningful before reordering them to set the lpm_en_modes. Thanks.

David

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Evgeny Novikov
> 
> 
> On 04.08.2021 03:30, David E. Box wrote:
> > Low Power Mode (LPM) priority is encoded in 4 bits. Yet, this value
> > is used
> > as an index to an array whose element size was less than 16,
> > leading to the
> > possibility of overflow should we read a larger than expected
> > priority. Set
> > the array size to 16 to prevent this.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Evgeny Novikov <novikov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: David E. Box <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c | 2 +-
> >   drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.h | 1 +
> >   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > index b0e486a6bdfb..2a761fe98277 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > @@ -1451,7 +1451,7 @@ DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(pmc_core_pkgc);
> >   
> >   static void pmc_core_get_low_power_modes(struct pmc_dev *pmcdev)
> >   {
> > -       u8 lpm_priority[LPM_MAX_NUM_MODES];
> > +       u8 lpm_priority[LPM_MAX_PRI];
> >         u32 lpm_en;
> >         int mode, i, p;
> >   
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.h
> > b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.h
> > index e8dae9c6c45f..b98c2b44c938 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.h
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.h
> > @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ enum ppfear_regs {
> >   #define LPM_MAX_NUM_MODES                     8
> >   #define GET_X2_COUNTER(v)                     ((v) >> 1)
> >   #define LPM_STS_LATCH_MODE                    BIT(31)
> > +#define LPM_MAX_PRI                            16      /* size of
> > 4 bits */
> >   
> >   #define TGL_PMC_SLP_S0_RES_COUNTER_STEP               0x7A
> >   #define TGL_PMC_LTR_THC0                      0x1C04





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