Re: [PATCH V2] Fix unsafe memory access by memcmp

[Fabio M. De Francesco]

On luned? 4 aprile 2022 12:50:41 CEST Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:52:07PM -0400, Charlie Sands wrote:
> > This patch fixes sparse warnings about the memcmp function unsafely
> > accessing userspace memory without first copying it to kernel space.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Charlie Sands <sandsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > V2: Fixed checkpatch.pl warning and changed variable name as suggested
> > by Greg K. H. and improved error checking on the "copy_from_user" function as
> > suggested by Pavel Skripkin.
> > 
> >  drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > index 7df213856d66..4b4eec2bde96 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > @@ -3233,23 +3233,28 @@ static int rtw_p2p_get(struct net_device *dev,
> >  			       struct iw_request_info *info,
> >  			       union iwreq_data *wrqu, char *extra)
> >  {
> > -	if (!memcmp(wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
> > +	char wrqu_data[9];
> > +
> > +	if (copy_from_user(wrqu_data, wrqu->data.pointer, 9) != 0)
> > +		return 0;
> 
> return -EFAULT;  We can't assume that that user wants to copy 9 bytes
> especially when they're passing a 4 character + NUL string.
> 
> This is a custom ioctl.  Called from ioctl_private_iw_point().
> 
> I think if you try to dereference a user pointer like this then it will
> cause a crash, right?  So that means no one has ever tested or used this
> code and we hopefully we can just delete it?

After a quick look, I'm pretty confident that we can also delete 
rtw_p2p_get2() and rtw_p2p_set() unless I'm overlooking something.

Thanks,

Fabio M. De Francesco