On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 02:19:16PM -0400, Hui Peng wrote:
> In the while loop of technisat_usb2_get_ir, it scans through
> a fix-sized buffer read from the device side, the termination
> condition of the loop is `*b == 0xff`. If no `0xff` byte is read
> from the device side, OOB access happens.
> 
> This patch fixes the bug by adding an upper bound in the while loop.

This issue was fixed in:

 
https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c?id=0c4df39e504bf925ab666132ac3c98d6cbbe380b

Note this limits the loop to the size of the buffer; using the ret
return value might be better.


Sean


> 
> Reported-by: Hui Peng <benqu...@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.pa...@nebelwelt.net>
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benqu...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c 
> b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c
> index c659e18b358b..181f5f97af45 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/technisat-usb2.c
> @@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ static int technisat_usb2_get_ir(struct dvb_usb_device *d)
>       u8 *b;
>       int ret;
>       struct ir_raw_event ev;
> +     int i = 0;
>  
>       buf[0] = GET_IR_DATA_VENDOR_REQUEST;
>       buf[1] = 0x08;
> @@ -656,11 +657,15 @@ static int technisat_usb2_get_ir(struct dvb_usb_device 
> *d)
>  
>       ev.pulse = 0;
>       while (1) {
> +             // only `ret` bytes are read from the device side
> +             if (i >= ret)
> +                     break;
>               ev.pulse = !ev.pulse;
>               ev.duration = (*b * FIRMWARE_CLOCK_DIVISOR * 
> FIRMWARE_CLOCK_TICK) / 1000;
>               ir_raw_event_store(d->rc_dev, &ev);
>  
>               b++;
> +             i++;
>               if (*b == 0xff) {
>                       ev.pulse = 0;
>                       ev.duration = 888888*2;
> -- 
> 2.23.0

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