Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: megaraid_sas: check user-provided offsets

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 11:36:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It sounds unwise to let user space pass an unchecked 32-bit
> offset into a kernel structure in an ioctl. This is an unsigned
> variable, so checking the upper bound for the size of the structure
> it points into is sufficient to avoid data corruption, but as
> the pointer might also be unaligned, it has to be written carefully
> as well.
> 
> While I stumbled over this problem by reading the code, I did not
> continue checking the function for further problems like it.

Oh, yikes!

> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What about a Fixes tag instead?

>  	if (ioc->sense_len) {
> +		/* make sure the pointer is part of the frame */
> +		if (ioc->sense_off > (sizeof(union megasas_frame) - sizeof(__le64))) {

No need for the inner braces and please avoid over 80 char lines.

Otherwise looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>



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