This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: omap: Prevent DoS using unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485) to my tty git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git in the tty-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 308bbc9ab838d0ace0298268c7970ba9513e2c65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:14:46 -0800 Subject: serial: omap: Prevent DoS using unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485) The omap-serial driver emulates RS485 delays using software timers, but neglects to clamp the input values from the unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485). Because the software implementation busy-waits, malicious userspace could stall the cpu for ~49 days. Clamp the input values to < 100ms. Fixes: 4a0ac0f55b18 ("OMAP: add RS485 support") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.12+ Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c index b645f9228ed7..27d3b978f16e 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c @@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ static inline void serial_omap_add_console_port(struct uart_omap_port *up) /* Enable or disable the rs485 support */ static int -serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485conf) +serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485) { struct uart_omap_port *up = to_uart_omap_port(port); unsigned int mode; @@ -1356,8 +1356,12 @@ serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485conf) up->ier = 0; serial_out(up, UART_IER, 0); + /* Clamp the delays to [0, 100ms] */ + rs485->delay_rts_before_send = min(rs485->delay_rts_before_send, 100U); + rs485->delay_rts_after_send = min(rs485->delay_rts_after_send, 100U); + /* store new config */ - port->rs485 = *rs485conf; + port->rs485 = *rs485; /* * Just as a precaution, only allow rs485 -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html