Re: [PATCH v2] rave-sp: Remove VLA

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Apr 30 2018 - 09:48:45 EST


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:38 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Kyle Spiers wrote:
>
>> As part of the effort to remove VLAs from the kernel[1], this creates
>> constants for the checksum lengths of CCITT and 8B2C and changes
>> crc_calculated to be the maximum size of a checksum.
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kyle Spiers <ksspiers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/mfd/rave-sp.c | 11 +++++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> Kees, do you want me to add your Ack?

Sure!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-Kees

>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/rave-sp.c b/drivers/mfd/rave-sp.c
>> index 5c858e784a89..4ce96b7137db 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mfd/rave-sp.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/rave-sp.c
>> @@ -45,7 +45,9 @@
>> #define RAVE_SP_DLE 0x10
>>
>> #define RAVE_SP_MAX_DATA_SIZE 64
>> -#define RAVE_SP_CHECKSUM_SIZE 2 /* Worst case scenario on RDU2 */
>> +#define RAVE_SP_CHECKSUM_8B2C 1
>> +#define RAVE_SP_CHECKSUM_CCITT 2
>> +#define RAVE_SP_CHECKSUM_SIZE RAVE_SP_CHECKSUM_CCITT
>> /*
>> * We don't store STX, ETX and unescaped bytes, so Rx is only
>> * DATA + CSUM
>> @@ -415,7 +417,12 @@ static void rave_sp_receive_frame(struct rave_sp *sp,
>> const size_t payload_length = length - checksum_length;
>> const u8 *crc_reported = &data[payload_length];
>> struct device *dev = &sp->serdev->dev;
>> - u8 crc_calculated[checksum_length];
>> + u8 crc_calculated[RAVE_SP_CHECKSUM_SIZE];
>> +
>> + if (unlikely(checksum_length > sizeof(crc_calculated))) {
>> + dev_warn(dev, "Checksum too long, dropping\n");
>> + return;
>> + }
>>
>> print_hex_dump(KERN_DEBUG, "rave-sp rx: ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE,
>> 16, 1, data, length, false);
>
> --
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