Re: [PATCH] regulator: vctrl: Fix out of bounds array access for vctrl->vtable

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Fri Apr 14 2017 - 15:01:14 EST


El Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:11:37AM -0700 Matthias Kaehlcke ha dit:

> Hi Axel,
>
> El Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:50:43AM +0800 Axel Lin ha dit:
>
> > Current code only allocates rdesc->n_voltages entries for vctrl->vtable.
> > Thus use rdesc->n_voltages instead of n_voltages in the for loop.
>
> This is intended. n_voltages is the number of voltages of the control
> regulator. In the first loop of the function we determine how many of
> these voltages are usable by the vctrl regulator (=> rdesc->n_voltages).
> The loop that populates vctrl->vtable iterates over n_voltages,
> however it skips those that are outside of the voltage range for the
> control regulator.

Sorry, I should have gotten coffee first. Your patch changes the
pre-calc and not the population loop, the use of n_voltages there
is indeed incorrect. Thanks for catching this!

Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > While at it, also switch to use devm_kcalloc instead of devm_kmalloc_array
> > + __GFP_ZERO flag and fix the argument order.
>
> This looks good to me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matthias
>
> > Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/regulator/vctrl-regulator.c | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/regulator/vctrl-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/vctrl-regulator.c
> > index 6baadef..78de002 100644
> > --- a/drivers/regulator/vctrl-regulator.c
> > +++ b/drivers/regulator/vctrl-regulator.c
> > @@ -345,9 +345,9 @@ static int vctrl_init_vtable(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> >
> > - vctrl->vtable = devm_kmalloc_array(
> > - &pdev->dev, sizeof(struct vctrl_voltage_table),
> > - rdesc->n_voltages, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> > + vctrl->vtable = devm_kcalloc(&pdev->dev, rdesc->n_voltages,
> > + sizeof(struct vctrl_voltage_table),
> > + GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!vctrl->vtable)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static int vctrl_init_vtable(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > NULL);
> >
> > /* pre-calculate OVP-safe downward transitions */
> > - for (i = n_voltages - 1; i > 0; i--) {
> > + for (i = rdesc->n_voltages - 1; i > 0; i--) {
> > int j;
> > int ovp_min_uV = (vctrl->vtable[i].out *
> > (100 - vctrl->ovp_threshold)) / 100;