Re: [PATCH] net/hamradio/6pack: Fix the size of a sk_buff used in 'sp_bump()'
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-08-28 04:39:55
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-08-28 04:39:55
Also in:
kernel-janitors, linux-hams, lkml
From: Christophe JAILLET <redacted> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:02:09 +0200
We 'allocate' 'count' bytes here. In fact, 'dev_alloc_skb' already add some extra space for padding, so a bit more is allocated. However, we use 1 byte for the KISS command, then copy 'count' bytes, so count+1 bytes. Explicitly allocate and use 1 more byte to be safe. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <redacted> --- This patch should be safe, be however may no be the correct way to fix the "buffer overflow". Maybe, the allocated size is correct and we should have: memcpy(ptr, sp->cooked_buf + 1, count - 1); or memcpy(ptr, sp->cooked_buf + 1, count - 1sp->rcount); I've not dig deep enough to understand the link betwwen 'rcount' and how 'cooked_buf' is used.
I'm trying to figure out how this code works too. Why are they skipping over the first byte? Is that to avoid the command byte? Yes, then using sp->rcount as the memcpy length makes sense. Why is the caller subtracting 2 from the RX buffer count when calculating sp->rcount? This makes the situation even more confusing.