| Message ID | 1398971837-18809-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com |
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diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c index 8308e36..eb62461 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c @@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ static struct ib_qp *nes_create_qp(struct ib_pd *ibpd, nes_free_resource(nesadapter, nesadapter->allocated_qps, qp_num); kfree(nesqp->allocated_buffer); nes_debug(NES_DBG_QP, "ib_copy_from_udata() Failed \n"); - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); } if (req.user_wqe_buffers) { virt_wqs = 1;
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled IB/nes: Return an error on ib_copy_from_udata() failure instead of NULL to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.1. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From ac43db70080420922d5dbbbe12d758bba70158f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:06:27 +0100 Subject: IB/nes: Return an error on ib_copy_from_udata() failure instead of NULL commit 9d194d1025f463392feafa26ff8c2d8247f71be1 upstream. In case of error while accessing to userspace memory, function nes_create_qp() returns NULL instead of an error code wrapped through ERR_PTR(). But NULL is not expected by ib_uverbs_create_qp(), as it check for error with IS_ERR(). As page 0 is likely not mapped, it is going to trigger an Oops when the kernel will try to dereference NULL pointer to access to struct ib_qp's fields. In some rare cases, page 0 could be mapped by userspace, which could turn this bug to a vulnerability that could be exploited: the function pointers in struct ib_device will be under userspace total control. This was caught when using spatch (aka. coccinelle) to rewrite calls to ib_copy_{from,to}_udata(). Link: https://www.gitorious.org/opteya/ib-hw-nes-create-qp-null Link: https://www.gitorious.org/opteya/coccib/source/75ebf2c1033c64c1d81df13e4ae44ee99c989eba:ib_copy_udata.cocci Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1394485254.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.9.1