Hi,
> Changelog would've been nice. This also should have been v3 not v2
So should I write a new patch (v4) and add Changelog?
> Hmm is this + 1 correct? I am wondering if we should be dropping
> the + 1 here and make it maxlen <= 0 above.
>
> What do you think?
Well, I think the + 1 is unnecessary here. But it's been there for
over 11 years, So maybe someone
has another opinion on the matter.
Cheers,
Abdelrahman
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 9:56 PM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Abdelrahman,
>
> Thanks for your patch.
>
> On 12.11.24 20:10, Abdelrahman Youssef wrote:
> > While fuzzing, the name marked by FDT_BEGIN_NODE sometimes extends beyond
> > the struct block area, Causing a heap-overflow.
> >
> > Since `maxlen` is an unsigned integer representing the length of name,
> > It can be negative, So it overflows to large numbers, Causing strnlen()
> > to overflow.
> >
> > So we can just change the type of maxlen to signed and check if it's negative.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Abdelrahman Youssef <abdelrahmanyossef12@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Changelog would've been nice. This also should have been v3 not v2.
>
> > drivers/of/fdt.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> > index 2c3ea31394..d8d8a4922c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> > @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static struct device_node *__of_unflatten_dtb(const void *infdt, int size,
> > void *dt_strings;
> > struct fdt_header f;
> > int ret;
> > - unsigned int maxlen;
> > + int maxlen;
> > const struct fdt_header *fdt = infdt;
> >
> > ret = fdt_parse_header(infdt, size, &f);
> > @@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ static struct device_node *__of_unflatten_dtb(const void *infdt, int size,
> > maxlen = (unsigned long)fdt + f.off_dt_struct +
> > f.size_dt_struct - (unsigned long)name;
> >
> > + if (maxlen < 0) {
> > + ret = -ESPIPE;
> > + goto err;
> > + }
> > +
> > len = strnlen(name, maxlen + 1);
>
> Hmm is this + 1 correct? I am wondering if we should be dropping
> the + 1 here and make it maxlen <= 0 above.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Ahmad
>
> > if (len > maxlen) {> ret = -ESPIPE;
>
>
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