On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:46:11PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Upstream commit e6bd18f57aad (IB/security: Restrict use of the write()
> interface) handled the cases for all drivers in the current upstream
> kernel. The ipath driver had recently been deprecated and moved to
> staging, and then removed entirely. It had the same security flaw as
> the qib driver. Fix that up with this separate patch.
>
> Note: The ipath driver only supports hardware that ended production
> over 10 years ago, so there should be none of this hardware still
> present in the wild.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4.x
> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
> index 13c3cd11ab92..f237a2e2a086 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
> #include <linux/uio.h>
> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>
> +#include <rdma/ib.h>
> +
> #include "ipath_kernel.h"
> #include "ipath_common.h"
> #include "ipath_user_sdma.h"
> @@ -2243,6 +2245,9 @@ static ssize_t ipath_write(struct file *fp, const char __user *data,
> ssize_t ret = 0;
> void *dest;
>
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ib_safe_file_access(fp)))
> + return -EACCESS;
This needs to be "EACCES" (one fewer 'S').
-Kamal
> +
> if (count < sizeof(cmd.type)) {
> ret = -EINVAL;
> goto bail;
> --
> 2.5.5
>
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