[CHECKER] aacraid user pointer use

Hollis Blanchard (hollisb@us.ibm.com)
Fri, 30 May 2003 10:56:58 -0500


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Stanford checker said:
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[BUG] at least bad programming practice. file_opetations.ioctl ->
aac_cfg_ioctl -> aac_do_ioctl -> close_getadapter_fib ->
aac_close_fib_context. All other functions called by aac_do_ioctl assume
arg is a user pointer. It is unknown what will happen.

/home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/scsi/aacraid/
commctrl.c:277:aac_close_fib_context:
ERROR:TAINTED:277:277: dereferencing tainted ptr 'fibctx' [Callstack:
/home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/scsi/sg.c:1002:aac_cfg_ioctl((tainted
3)) ->
/home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/scsi/aacraid/
linit.c:671:aac_do_ioctl((tainted
2)) ->
/home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/scsi/aacraid/
commctrl.c:421:close_getadapter_fib((tainted
1)) ->
/home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/drivers/scsi/aacraid/
commctrl.c:348:aac_close_fib_context((tainted
1))]

while (!list_empty(&fibctx->fibs)) {
struct list_head * entry;
/*
* Pull the next fib from the fibs
*/

Error --->
entry = fibctx->fibs.next;
list_del(entry);
fib = list_entry(entry, struct hw_fib, header.FibLinks);
fibctx->count--;
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As it turns out, the driver is fine. It is dereferencing a
user-supplied pointer (fibctx), but it keeps a list of valid structures
and has already made sure fibctx is one of them before using it. This
is in contrast to the PCMCIA code, which uses a magic number to verify
(as discussed yesterday) rather than keeping a list of all valid
pointers.

The attached aacraid patch may help the checker, and should be
functionally equivalent... but isn't necessary.

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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===== drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c 1.2 vs edited ===== --- 1.2/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c Wed May 7 21:08:36 2003 +++ edited/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c Thu May 29 17:33:17 2003 @@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ if (found == 0) return -EINVAL; - if((fibctx->type != FSAFS_NTC_GET_ADAPTER_FIB_CONTEXT) || - (fibctx->size != sizeof(struct aac_fib_context))) + if((aifcp->type != FSAFS_NTC_GET_ADAPTER_FIB_CONTEXT) || + (aifcp->size != sizeof(struct aac_fib_context))) return -EINVAL; status = 0; spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->fib_lock, flags); @@ -224,16 +224,16 @@ * -EAGAIN */ return_fib: - if (!aac_list_empty(&fibctx->hw_fib_list)) { + if (!aac_list_empty(&aifcp->hw_fib_list)) { struct aac_list_head * entry; /* * Pull the next fib from the fibs */ - entry = (struct aac_list_head*)(ulong)fibctx->hw_fib_list.next; + entry = (struct aac_list_head*)(ulong)aifcp->hw_fib_list.next; aac_list_del(entry); hw_fib = aac_list_entry(entry, struct hw_fib, header.FibLinks); - fibctx->count--; + aifcp->count--; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->fib_lock, flags); if (copy_to_user(f.fib, hw_fib, sizeof(struct hw_fib))) { kfree(hw_fib); @@ -244,11 +244,11 @@ */ kfree(hw_fib); status = 0; - fibctx->jiffies = jiffies/HZ; + aifcp->jiffies = jiffies/HZ; } else { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->fib_lock, flags); if (f.wait) { - if(down_interruptible(&fibctx->wait_sem) < 0) { + if(down_interruptible(&aifcp->wait_sem) < 0) { status = -EINTR; } else { /* Lock again and retry */ @@ -341,11 +341,11 @@ if(found == 0) return 0; /* Already gone */ - if((fibctx->type != FSAFS_NTC_GET_ADAPTER_FIB_CONTEXT) || - (fibctx->size != sizeof(struct aac_fib_context))) + if((aifcp->type != FSAFS_NTC_GET_ADAPTER_FIB_CONTEXT) || + (aifcp->size != sizeof(struct aac_fib_context))) return -EINVAL; spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->fib_lock, flags); - status = aac_close_fib_context(dev, fibctx); + status = aac_close_fib_context(dev, aifcp); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->fib_lock, flags); return status; }

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