On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 8:56 AM Leon Romanovsky <l...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:48:03PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > In general, accessing userspace memory beyond the length of the supplied
> > buffer in VFS read/write handlers can lead to both kernel memory corruption
> > (via kernel_read()/kernel_write(), which can e.g. be triggered via
> > sys_splice()) and privilege escalation inside userspace.
> >
> > In this case, the affected files are in debugfs (and should therefore only
> > be accessible to root), and the read handlers check that *pos is zero
> > (meaning that at least sys_splice() can't trigger kernel memory
> > corruption). Because of the root requirement, this is not a security fix,
> > but rather a cleanup.
> >
> > For the read handlers, fix it by using simple_read_from_buffer() instead of
> > custom logic. Add min() calls to the write handlers.
> >
> > changed in v2:
> > - also fix write handlers
>
> No changelog in commit messages, please
I will try to do that better in the future. I never noticed that
changelogs go below the three dashes...
> > Fixes: 4a2da0b8c078 ("IB/mlx5: Add debug control parameters for congestion
> > control")
> > Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters")
> > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/cong.c | 9 +--------
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 32 ++++++++-----------------------
> > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
> >
>
> Thanks,
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leo...@mellanox.com>
