This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serdev: ttyport: add missing receive_buf sanity checks 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 eb281683621b71ab9710d9dccbbef0c2e1769c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:30:52 +0100 Subject: serdev: ttyport: add missing receive_buf sanity checks The receive_buf tty-port callback should return the number of bytes accepted and must specifically never return a negative errno (or a value larger than the buffer size) to the tty layer. A serdev driver not providing a receive_buf callback would currently cause the flush_to_ldisc() worker to spin in a tight loop when the tty buffer pointers are incremented with -EINVAL (-22) after data has been received. A serdev driver occasionally returning a negative errno (or a too large byte count) could cause information leaks or crashes when accessing memory outside the tty buffers in consecutive callbacks. Fixes: cd6484e1830b ("serdev: Introduce new bus for serial attached devices") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.11 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c b/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c index ce7ad0acee7a..09fbdd52a561 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c @@ -27,11 +27,22 @@ static int ttyport_receive_buf(struct tty_port *port, const unsigned char *cp, { struct serdev_controller *ctrl = port->client_data; struct serport *serport = serdev_controller_get_drvdata(ctrl); + int ret; if (!test_bit(SERPORT_ACTIVE, &serport->flags)) return 0; - return serdev_controller_receive_buf(ctrl, cp, count); + ret = serdev_controller_receive_buf(ctrl, cp, count); + + dev_WARN_ONCE(&ctrl->dev, ret < 0 || ret > count, + "receive_buf returns %d (count = %zu)\n", + ret, count); + if (ret < 0) + return 0; + else if (ret > count) + return count; + + return ret; } static void ttyport_write_wakeup(struct tty_port *port) -- 2.15.0