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Commit 0ee4e769 authored by Vivien Didelot's avatar Vivien Didelot Committed by David S. Miller
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ethtool: fix potential userspace buffer overflow


ethtool_get_regs() allocates a buffer of size ops->get_regs_len(),
and pass it to the kernel driver via ops->get_regs() for filling.

There is no restriction about what the kernel drivers can or cannot do
with the open ethtool_regs structure. They usually set regs->version
and ignore regs->len or set it to the same size as ops->get_regs_len().

But if userspace allocates a smaller buffer for the registers dump,
we would cause a userspace buffer overflow in the final copy_to_user()
call, which uses the regs.len value potentially reset by the driver.

To fix this, make this case obvious and store regs.len before calling
ops->get_regs(), to only copy as much data as requested by userspace,
up to the value returned by ops->get_regs_len().

While at it, remove the redundant check for non-null regbuf.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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