ufs: add ioctl interface for query request
Hello Dolev Raviv,
The patch 4aca8e8975db: "ufs: add ioctl interface for query request" from Mar 12, 2015, leads to the following Smatch warning:
drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c:4386 ufshcd_query_ioctl() warn: maybe return -EFAULT instead of the bytes remaining?
drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
4364 /* copy to user */
4365 err = copy_to_user(buffer, ioctl_data,
4366 sizeof(struct ufs_ioctl_query_data));
4367 if (err)
4368 dev_err(hba->dev, "%s: Failed copying back to user.\n",
4369 __func__);
copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes not copied and not an error code. Printing these error messages in the ioctl means the user can trigger a DoS by filling up /var/log/messages. They make the code uglier. We should stop here if the copy fails and goto out_release_mem otherwise we might end up returning success by mistake.
The normal way to do it is:
if (copy_to_user(buffer, ioctl_data,
sizeof(struct ufs_ioctl_query_data))) {
err = -EFAULT;
goto out_release_mem;
}4370 err = copy_to_user(buffer + sizeof(struct ufs_ioctl_query_data), 4371 data_ptr, ioctl_data->buf_size); 4372 if (err) 4373 dev_err(hba->dev, "%s: err %d copying back to user.\n", 4374 __func__, err); 4375 goto out_release_mem; 4376 4377 out_einval: 4378 dev_err(hba->dev, 4379 "%s: illegal ufs query ioctl data, opcode 0x%x, idn 0x%x\n", 4380 __func__, ioctl_data->opcode, (unsigned int)ioctl_data->idn); 4381 err = -EINVAL; 4382 out_release_mem: 4383 kfree(ioctl_data); 4384 kfree(desc); 4385 out: 4386 return err; 4387 }
regards,
dan carpenter
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copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes not copied and not an error code. Printing these error messages in the ioctl means the user can trigger a DoS by filling up
/var/log/messages. They make the code uglier. We should stop here if the copy fails and gotoout_release_memotherwise we might end up returning success by mistake.
Thanks for the comment, I will update the code.
I wanted to clarify about the possibility of a DoS attack:
- Isn't var/log/messages cyclic or size limited in some way?
- What determines that dev_err() prints go to /var/log/messages? would it still be the case if dev_dbg() was used instead?
Thanks,
Gilad.
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copy_to/from_user() returns the number of bytes not copied and not an error code. Printing these error messages in the ioctl means the user can trigger a DoS by filling up
/var/log/messages. They make the code uglier. We should stop here if the copy fails and gotoout_release_memotherwise we might end up returning success by mistake.Thanks for the comment, I will update the code.
I wanted to clarify about the possibility of a DoS attack:
- Isn't var/log/messages cyclic or size limited in some way?
Some people limit it some people don't. To be honest, I'm not really concerned about this, but I use it as an excuse to remove debug messages.
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- What determines that
dev_err()prints go to/var/log/messages? would it still be the case ifdev_dbg()was used instead?
Normally dev_dbg() message are not printed. But just remove them. They make the code uglier.
regards,
dan carpenter