On 20/07/17 10:56, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> preparing for removal of VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS ioctl from
You don't really prepare for removal. You make sure VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS
no longer works with a minimal patch suitable for backporting.
> davicni vpfe_capture driver because of following reasons:
davicni -> davinci
>
> - This ioctl was never in public api and was only defined in kernel header.
> - The function set_params constantly mixes up pointers and phys_addr_t
> numbers.
> - This is part of a 'VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS' ioctl command that is
> described as an 'experimental ioctl that will change in future kernels'.
> - The code to allocate the table never gets called after we copy_from_user
> the user input over the kernel settings, and then compare them
> for inequality.
> - We then go on to use an address provided by user space as both the
> __user pointer for input and pass it through phys_to_virt to come up
> with a kernel pointer to copy the data to. This looks like a trivially
> exploitable root hole.
Add something like:
"Due to these reasons we make sure this ioctl now returns -EINVAL and backport
this patch as far as possible."
Regards,
Hans
>
> Fixes: 5f15fbb68fd7 ("V4L/DVB (12251): v4l: dm644x ccdc module for vpfe
> capture driver")
> Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.cse...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c | 22 ++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c
> b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c
> index e3fe3e0..1831bf5 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/davinci/vpfe_capture.c
> @@ -1719,27 +1719,9 @@ static long vpfe_param_handler(struct file *file, void
> *priv,
>
> switch (cmd) {
> case VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS:
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> v4l2_warn(&vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev,
> - "VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS: experimental ioctl\n");
> - if (ccdc_dev->hw_ops.set_params) {
> - ret = ccdc_dev->hw_ops.set_params(param);
> - if (ret) {
> - v4l2_dbg(1, debug, &vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev,
> - "Error setting parameters in CCDC\n");
> - goto unlock_out;
> - }
> - ret = vpfe_get_ccdc_image_format(vpfe_dev,
> - &vpfe_dev->fmt);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - v4l2_dbg(1, debug, &vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev,
> - "Invalid image format at CCDC\n");
> - goto unlock_out;
> - }
> - } else {
> - ret = -EINVAL;
> - v4l2_dbg(1, debug, &vpfe_dev->v4l2_dev,
> - "VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS not supported\n");
> - }
> + "VPFE_CMD_S_CCDC_RAW_PARAMS not supported\n");
> break;
> default:
> ret = -ENOTTY;
>
