[PATCH net v2] net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access

From: Ahmad Fatoum
Date: Thu Mar 23 2023 - 06:41:02 EST


The probe function sets priv->chip_data to (void *)priv + sizeof(*priv)
with the expectation that priv has enough trailing space.

However, only realtek-smi actually allocated this chip_data space.
Do likewise in realtek-mdio to fix out-of-bounds accesses.

These accesses likely went unnoticed so far, because of an (unused)
buf[4096] member in struct realtek_priv, which caused kmalloc to
round up the allocated buffer to a big enough size, so nothing of
value was overwritten. With a different allocator (like in the barebox
bootloader port of the driver) or with KASAN, the memory corruption
becomes quickly apparent.

Fixes: aac94001067d ("net: dsa: realtek: add new mdio interface for drivers")
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
v1 -> v2:
- drop v1's patch 2/2, which appears to have no functional effect
(Jakub)
- extend commit message with probable reason why this long standing
bug did not pop up so far in Linux (Prompted by Linus' question)
- use saturating size_add instead of wrap-around addition (Jakub)
- added reviewer R-b's
---
drivers/net/dsa/realtek/realtek-mdio.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dsa/realtek/realtek-mdio.c b/drivers/net/dsa/realtek/realtek-mdio.c
index 7134886fe78d..1691faf77f00 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dsa/realtek/realtek-mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dsa/realtek/realtek-mdio.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/of_device.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
#include <linux/regmap.h>

#include "realtek.h"
@@ -152,7 +153,9 @@ static int realtek_mdio_probe(struct mdio_device *mdiodev)
if (!var)
return -EINVAL;

- priv = devm_kzalloc(&mdiodev->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
+ priv = devm_kzalloc(&mdiodev->dev,
+ size_add(sizeof(*priv), var->chip_data_sz),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!priv)
return -ENOMEM;

--
2.30.2