Hi Gustavo ,
Please see inline,
> -Original Message-
> From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 5:53 PM
> To: Sunil Kovvuri Goutham ; Geethasowjanya
> Akula ; Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta
> ; Hariprasad Kelam ; David
> S. Miller ; Jakub Kicinski ; Jesse
> Brandeburg ; Christina Jacob
>
> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Gustavo A. R.
> Silva ; linux-harden...@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [EXT] [PATCH][next] octeontx2-pf: Fix out-of-bounds read in
> otx2_get_fecparam()
>
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> Code at line 967 implies that rsp->fwdata.supported_fec may be up to 4:
>
> 967: if (rsp->fwdata.supported_fec <= FEC_MAX_INDEX)
>
Thanks for pointing this. I missed this case .
rsp->fwdata.supported_fec range is 0 to 3. Certainly 4 causes out-of-bounds.
But proper fix is
- if (rsp->fwdata.supported_fec <= FEC_MAX_INDEX)
+ : if (rsp->fwdata.supported_fec < FEC_MAX_INDEX)
Thanks,
Hariprasad k
> If rsp->fwdata.supported_fec evaluates to 4, then there is an out-of-bounds
> read at line 971 because fec is an array with a maximum of 4 elements:
>
> 954 const int fec[] = {
> 955 ETHTOOL_FEC_OFF,
> 956 ETHTOOL_FEC_BASER,
> 957 ETHTOOL_FEC_RS,
> 958 ETHTOOL_FEC_BASER | ETHTOOL_FEC_RS};
> 959 #define FEC_MAX_INDEX 4
>
> 971: fecparam->fec = fec[rsp->fwdata.supported_fec];
>
> Fix this by properly indexing fec[] with rsp->fwdata.supported_fec - 1.
> In this case the proper indexes 0 to 3 are used when
> rsp->fwdata.supported_fec evaluates to a range of 1 to 4, correspondingly.
>
> Fixes: d0cf9503e908 ("octeontx2-pf: ethtool fec mode support")
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1501722 ("Out-of-bounds read")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
> index 237e5d3321d4..f7e8ada32a26 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_ethtool.c
> @@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ static int otx2_get_fecparam(struct net_device
> *netdev,
> if (!rsp->fwdata.supported_fec)
> fecparam->fec = ETHTOOL_FEC_NONE;
> else
> - fecparam->fec = fec[rsp->fwdata.supported_fec];
> + fecparam->fec = fec[rsp->fwdata.supported_fec - 1];
> }
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 2.27.0
