On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 08:24:03AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:50:04PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:59:57PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > In order to prevent a potential NULL deference with hostile userspace,
> > > we need to check whether the ioctl was passed an invalid args pointer.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rant...@gmail.com>
> > > Link: 
> > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca+ydwtpubvbwxbt-tdgpuvj1eu7itmcho_2b3w13hkd5+jw...@mail.gmail.com
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c |   11 +++++++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c 
> > > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> > > index 365e41a..9f5602e 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
> > > @@ -1103,7 +1103,11 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer(struct drm_device *dev, void 
> > > *data,
> > >   struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 *exec2_list = NULL;
> > >   int ret, i;
> > >  
> > > - if (args->buffer_count < 1) {
> > > + if (args == NULL)
> > > +         return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > > + if (args->buffer_count < 1 ||
> > > +     args->buffer_count > INT_MAX / sizeof(*exec2_list)) {
> > >           DRM_DEBUG("execbuf with %d buffers\n", args->buffer_count);
> > >           return -EINVAL;
> > >   }
> > > @@ -1182,8 +1186,11 @@ i915_gem_execbuffer2(struct drm_device *dev, void 
> > > *data,
> > >   struct drm_i915_gem_exec_object2 *exec2_list = NULL;
> > >   int ret;
> > >  
> > > + if (args == NULL)
> > > +         return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > >   if (args->buffer_count < 1 ||
> > > -     args->buffer_count > UINT_MAX / sizeof(*exec2_list)) {
> > > +     args->buffer_count > INT_MAX / sizeof(*exec2_list)) {
> > >           DRM_DEBUG("execbuf2 with %d buffers\n", args->buffer_count);
> > >           return -EINVAL;
> > >   }
> > 
> > Why did you change UINT_MAX to INT_MAX?
> 
> Because we check later against INT_MAX, and I didn't like the confusion.
> If we are going to pick an arbitrary limit, lets at least be consistent.
> 
> > TBH, I'm confused what we're
> > trying to achieve, and why we need anything other than:
> > if (!args->buffer_count)
> 
> Because we then promptly do a u32 multiply and we need to be sure that
> userspace can't trigger an overflow there and cause us to read
> unallocated memory later.
> > 
> > I'm also not seeing how the NULL checks are needed since at least it
> > seems to be for execbuffer (IOW) we could never have NULL args.
> 
> That's what I thought too. Looking at the stack trace, the empirical
> evidence is that we need the check.
> -Chris

I think we need to investigate the issue more then, or put a BUG_ON() in
the drm code and run it through trinity. We have other places where arg
can't/shouldn't be NULL and we don't check.

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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