3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Peter Huewe <peter.hu...@infineon.com> commit abce9ac292e13da367bbd22c1f7669f988d931ac upstream. tpm_write calls tpm_transmit without checking the return value and assigns the return value unconditionally to chip->pending_data, even if it's an error value. This causes three bugs. So if we write to /dev/tpm0 with a tpm_param_size bigger than TPM_BUFSIZE=0x1000 (e.g. 0x100a) and a bufsize also bigger than TPM_BUFSIZE (e.g. 0x100a) tpm_transmit returns -E2BIG which is assigned to chip->pending_data as -7, but tpm_write returns that TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been successfully been written to the TPM, altough this is not true (bug #1). As we did write more than than TPM_BUFSIZE bytes but tpm_write reports that only TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been written the vfs tries to write the remaining bytes (in this case 10 bytes) to the tpm device driver via tpm_write which then blocks at /* cannot perform a write until the read has cleared either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout */ while (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0) msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT); for 60 seconds, since data_pending is -7 and nobody is able to read it (since tpm_read luckily checks if data_pending is greater than 0) (#bug 2). After that the remaining bytes are written to the TPM which are interpreted by the tpm as a normal command. (bug #3) So if the last bytes of the command stream happen to be a e.g. tpm_force_clear this gets accidentally sent to the TPM. This patch fixes all three bugs, by propagating the error code of tpm_write and returning -E2BIG if the input buffer is too big, since the response from the tpm for a truncated value is bogus anyway. Moreover it returns -EBUSY to userspace if there is a response ready to be read. Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peter.hu...@infineon.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder <k...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm.c @@ -1186,17 +1186,20 @@ ssize_t tpm_write(struct file *file, con size_t size, loff_t *off) { struct tpm_chip *chip = file->private_data; - size_t in_size = size, out_size; + size_t in_size = size; + ssize_t out_size; /* cannot perform a write until the read has cleared - either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout */ - while (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0) - msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT); - - mutex_lock(&chip->buffer_mutex); + either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout. + This also prevents splitted buffered writes from blocking here. + */ + if (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0) + return -EBUSY; if (in_size > TPM_BUFSIZE) - in_size = TPM_BUFSIZE; + return -E2BIG; + + mutex_lock(&chip->buffer_mutex); if (copy_from_user (chip->data_buffer, (void __user *) buf, in_size)) { @@ -1206,6 +1209,10 @@ ssize_t tpm_write(struct file *file, con /* atomic tpm command send and result receive */ out_size = tpm_transmit(chip, chip->data_buffer, TPM_BUFSIZE); + if (out_size < 0) { + mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex); + return out_size; + } atomic_set(&chip->data_pending, out_size); mutex_unlock(&chip->buffer_mutex); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/