Thread (118 messages) 118 messages, 10 authors, 2021-08-30

Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read8

From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-27 09:07:35
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:27:27AM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -83,7 +83,12 @@ int proc_get_read_reg(char *page, char **start,
 
 	switch (proc_get_read_len) {
 	case 1:
-		len += snprintf(page + len, count - len, "rtw_read8(0x%x)=0x%x\n", proc_get_read_addr, rtw_read8(padapter, proc_get_read_addr));
+		error = rtw_read8(padapter, proc_get_read_addr, (u8 *) &tmp);
+		if (error)
+			return len;
+
+		len += snprintf(page + len, count - len, "rtw_read8(0x%x)=0x%x\n",
+				proc_get_read_addr, (u8) tmp);
 		break;
Oh my goodness...  :P

If you look at what proc_get_read_addr is, it turns out it's a 32bit
address which is controlled by the user in proc_set_read_reg().  LOL!
Just a giant security hole.

My advise is just delete this dead code.  No one is using it so how
necessary can it be?

regards,
dan carpenter
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