Re: [GIT PULL] TPM driver robustness fixes

[Jeff Mahoney]

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On 03/16/2011 10:23 PM, Rajiv Andrade wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit
> 2e270d84223262a38d4755c61d55f5c73ea89e56:
> 
>   Merge branch 'for-linus' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 (2011-03-16
> 13:26:17 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://tpmdd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/tpmdd/tpmdd/ for-james
> 
> Peter Huewe (3):
> 
>       This patch changes the call of tpm_transmit by supplying the size
> of the userspace buffer instead of TPM_BUFSIZE
> 
>       This patch fixes information leakage to the userspace by
> initializing the data buffer to zero
> 
>       Since the buffer might contain security related data it might be a
> good idea to zero the buffer after we have copied it to userspace.
> 
>  drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c |    7 ++++---
> 
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> 
> index 1f46f1c..c6d2cde 100644
> 
> --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> 
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c
> 
> @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ static ssize_t tpm_transmit(struct tpm_chip *chip,
> const char *buf,
> 
>      goto out;
> 
>  
> 
>  out_recv:
> 
> -    rc = chip->vendor.recv(chip, (u8 *) buf, bufsiz);
> 
> +    rc = chip->vendor.recv(chip, (u8 *) buf, TPM_BUFSIZE);
> 
>      if (rc<  0)
> 
>          dev_err(chip->dev,
> 
>              "tpm_transmit: tpm_recv: error %zd\n", rc);
> 

This works in the tpm_write case, but it seems like it's introducing a
bug in the __tpm_pcr_read (bufsiz=30) and tpm_continue_selftest
(bufsiz=10) cases. Am I missing something?

- -Jeff

> @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ int tpm_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> 
>          return -EBUSY;
> 
>      }
> 
>  
> 
> -    chip->data_buffer = kmalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE * sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> +    chip->data_buffer = kzalloc(TPM_BUFSIZE * sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
>      if (chip->data_buffer == NULL) {
> 
>          clear_bit(0,&chip->is_open);
> 
>          put_device(chip->dev);
> 
> @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ ssize_t tpm_write(struct file *file, const char
> __user *buf,
> 
>      }
> 
>  
> 
>      /* atomic tpm command send and result receive */
> 
> -    out_size = tpm_transmit(chip, chip->data_buffer, TPM_BUFSIZE);
> 
> +    out_size = tpm_transmit(chip, chip->data_buffer, in_size);
> 
>  
> 
>      atomic_set(&chip->data_pending, out_size);
> 
>      mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
> 
> @@ -1064,6 +1064,7 @@ ssize_t tpm_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> 
>          mutex_lock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
> 
>          if (copy_to_user(buf, chip->data_buffer, ret_size))
> 
>              ret_size = -EFAULT;
> 
> +        memset(chip->data_buffer, 0, ret_size);
> 
>          mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex);
> 
>      }
> 
>  
> 
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