Re: [PATCH] scsi: prevent stack buffer overflow in host_reset

From: Rolf Eike Beer
Date: Fri Nov 16 2012 - 04:35:26 EST


Am Donnerstag 15 November 2012, 15:51:46 schrieb Sasha Levin:
> store_host_reset() has tried to re-invent the wheel to compare sysfs
> strings. Unfortunately it did so poorly and never bothered to check the
> input from userspace before overwriting stack with it, so something simple
> as:
>
> echo "WoopsieWoopsie" >
> /sys/devices/pseudo_0/adapter0/host0/scsi_host/host0/host_reset
>
> would result in:
>
> [ 316.310101] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is
> corrupted in: ffffffff81f5bac7 [ 316.310101]
> [ 316.320051] Pid: 6655, comm: sh Tainted: G W
> 3.7.0-rc5-next-20121114-sasha-00016-g5c9d68d-dirty #129 [ 316.320051] Call
> Trace:
> [ 316.340058] pps pps0: PPS event at 1352918752.620355751
> [ 316.340062] pps pps0: capture assert seq #303
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff83b3856b>] panic+0xcd/0x1f4
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff81f5bac7>] ? store_host_reset+0xd7/0x100
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff8110b996>] __stack_chk_fail+0x16/0x20
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff81f5bac7>] store_host_reset+0xd7/0x100
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff81e55bb3>] dev_attr_store+0x13/0x30
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff812f7db1>] sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x170
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff8127acc8>] vfs_write+0xb8/0x180
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff8127ae80>] sys_write+0x50/0xa0
> [ 316.320051] [<ffffffff83c03418>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
>
> Fix this by uninventing whatever was going on there and just use
> sysfs_streq.
>
> Bug introduced by 29443691 ("[SCSI] scsi: Added support for adapter and
> firmware reset").
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>

That revision is in 3.2 and all following, so I think this needs to go into
stable, too.

Eike

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