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staging: istallion: fix arbitrary kernel memory reads/writes

stli_brdstats is defined as global variable.  After de-BKL-ization in
the patch b4eda9cb48eac1b7 an access to the variable is not serialized
anymore.  This leads to the race window between the check and the use
in stli_getbrdstats():

        if (copy_from_user(&stli_brdstats, bp, sizeof(combrd_t)))
                return -EFAULT;
        if (stli_brdstats.brd >= STL_MAXBRDS) <<<
                return -ENODEV;
        brdp = stli_brds[stli_brdstats.brd];  <<<

If one process calls COM_GETBRDSTATS ioctl() with sane .brd, second
process calls COM_GETBRDSTATS ioctl() with invalid .brd, and the
second process' copy_from_user() executes exactly between the check and
stli_brds[] indexation of the first process, then the first process gets
contents of memory at *stli_brds[stli_brdstats.brd] address.  Also
the resulting .nrpanels field may be too big, in this case
stli_brdstats.panels array overflows.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov 14 years ago
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      drivers/staging/tty/istallion.c

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drivers/staging/tty/istallion.c

@@ -186,7 +186,6 @@ static struct ktermios		stli_deftermios = {
  *	re-used for each stats call.
  */
 static comstats_t	stli_comstats;
-static combrd_t		stli_brdstats;
 static struct asystats	stli_cdkstats;
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
@@ -4005,6 +4004,7 @@ static int stli_getbrdstats(combrd_t __user *bp)
 {
 	struct stlibrd *brdp;
 	unsigned int i;
+	combrd_t stli_brdstats;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(&stli_brdstats, bp, sizeof(combrd_t)))
 		return -EFAULT;