On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 11:36:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It sounds unwise to let user space pass an unchecked 32-bit
> offset into a kernel structure in an ioctl. This is an unsigned
> variable, so checking the upper bound for the size of the structure
> it points into is sufficient to avoid data corruption, but as
> the pointer might also be unaligned, it has to be written carefully
> as well.
>
> While I stumbled over this problem by reading the code, I did not
> continue checking the function for further problems like it.
Oh, yikes!
>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
What about a Fixes tag instead?
> if (ioc->sense_len) {
> + /* make sure the pointer is part of the frame */
> + if (ioc->sense_off > (sizeof(union megasas_frame) -
> sizeof(__le64))) {
No need for the inner braces and please avoid over 80 char lines.
Otherwise looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
