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SubjectRe: [PATCH] thermal: sysfs: Perform bounds check when storing thermal states
On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 04:51:59PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 09:16 +0200, Varad Gautam wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 8:45 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 11:02:50PM +0200, Varad Gautam wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 6:18 PM Greg KH <
> > > > gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 03:00:02PM +0000, Varad Gautam wrote:
> > > > > > Check that a user-provided thermal state is within the
> > > > > > maximum
> > > > > > thermal states supported by a given driver before attempting
> > > > > > to
> > > > > > apply it. This prevents a subsequent OOB access in
> > > > > > thermal_cooling_device_stats_update() while performing
> > > > > > state-transition accounting on drivers that do not have this
> > > > > > check
> > > > > > in their set_cur_state() handle.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Varad Gautam <varadgautam@google.com>
> > > > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > > drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> > > > > > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> > > > > > b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> > > > > > index 1c4aac8464a7..0c6b0223b133 100644
> > > > > > --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> > > > > > +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> > > > > > @@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ cur_state_store(struct device *dev,
> > > > > > struct device_attribute *attr,
> > > > > > const char *buf, size_t count)
> > > > > > {
> > > > > > struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev =
> > > > > > to_cooling_device(dev);
> > > > > > - unsigned long state;
> > > > > > + unsigned long state, max_state;
> > > > > > int result;
> > > > > >
> > > > > > if (sscanf(buf, "%ld\n", &state) != 1)
> > > > > > @@ -618,10 +618,20 @@ cur_state_store(struct device *dev,
> > > > > > struct device_attribute *attr,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > mutex_lock(&cdev->lock);
> > > > > >
> > > > > > + result = cdev->ops->get_max_state(cdev, &max_state);
> > > > > > + if (result)
> > > > > > + goto unlock;
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > + if (state > max_state) {
> > > > > > + result = -EINVAL;
> > > > > > + goto unlock;
> > > > > > + }
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > result = cdev->ops->set_cur_state(cdev, state);
> > > > >
> > > > > Why doesn't set_cur_state() check the max state before setting
> > > > > it? Why
> > > > > are the callers forced to always check it before? That feels
> > > > > wrong...
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The problem lies in thermal_cooling_device_stats_update(), not
> > > > set_cur_state().
> > > >
> > > > If ->set_cur_state() doesn't error out on invalid state,
> > > > thermal_cooling_device_stats_update() does a:
> > > >
> > > > stats->trans_table[stats->state * stats->max_states +
> > > > new_state]++;
> > > >
> > > > stats->trans_table reserves space depending on max_states, but
> > > > we'd end up
> > > > reading/writing outside it. cur_state_store() can prevent this
> > > > regardless of
> > > > the driver's ->set_cur_state() implementation.
> > >
> > > Why wouldn't cur_state_store() check for an out-of-bounds condition
> > > by
> > > calling get_max_state() and then return an error if it is invalid,
> > > preventing thermal_cooling_device_stats_update() from ever being
> > > called?
> > >
> >
> > That's what this patch does, it adds the out-of-bounds check.
>
> No, I think Greg' question is
> why cdev->ops->set_cur_state() return 0 when setting a cooling state
> that exceeds the maximum cooling state?

Yes, that is what I am asking, it should not allow a state to be
exceeded.

thanks,

greg k-h

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