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authorClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>2010-10-25 11:41:53 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2010-12-14 23:40:09 +0100
commit329ad1cf88c3007e095a304028d11021eae8d402 (patch)
tree6d334200eb0c7043017b9d99a3445863ca45101b /drivers
parent4d21e4b72b282e24fdf6a1993ef21730df94fe86 (diff)
firewire: ohci: fix buffer overflow in AR split packet handling
commit 85f7ffd5d2b320f73912b15fe8cef34bae297daf upstream. When the controller had to split a received asynchronous packet into two buffers, the driver tries to reassemble it by copying both parts into the first page. However, if size + rest > PAGE_SIZE, i.e., if the yet unhandled packets before the split packet, the split packet itself, and any received packets after the split packet are together larger than one page, then the memory after the first page would get overwritten. To fix this, do not try to copy the data of all unhandled packets at once, but copy the possibly needed data every time when handling a packet. This gets rid of most of the infamous crashes and data corruptions when using firewire-net. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firewire/ohci.c35
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
index 4b521dd5a9d..725bb3c272b 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
d = &ab->descriptor;
if (d->res_count == 0) {
- size_t size, rest, offset;
+ size_t size, size2, rest, pktsize, size3, offset;
dma_addr_t start_bus;
void *start;
@@ -701,12 +701,41 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
ab = ab->next;
d = &ab->descriptor;
size = buffer + PAGE_SIZE - ctx->pointer;
+ /* valid buffer data in the next page */
rest = le16_to_cpu(d->req_count) - le16_to_cpu(d->res_count);
+ /* what actually fits in this page */
+ size2 = min(rest, (size_t)PAGE_SIZE - size);
memmove(buffer, ctx->pointer, size);
- memcpy(buffer + size, ab->data, rest);
+ memcpy(buffer + size, ab->data, size2);
ctx->current_buffer = ab;
ctx->pointer = (void *) ab->data + rest;
- end = buffer + size + rest;
+
+ while (size > 0) {
+ void *next = handle_ar_packet(ctx, buffer);
+ pktsize = next - buffer;
+ if (pktsize >= size) {
+ /*
+ * We have handled all the data that was
+ * originally in this page, so we can now
+ * continue in the next page.
+ */
+ buffer = next;
+ break;
+ }
+ /* move the next packet to the start of the buffer */
+ memmove(buffer, next, size + size2 - pktsize);
+ size -= pktsize;
+ /* fill up this page again */
+ size3 = min(rest - size2,
+ (size_t)PAGE_SIZE - size - size2);
+ memcpy(buffer + size + size2,
+ (void *) ab->data + size2, size3);
+ size2 += size3;
+ }
+
+ /* handle the packets that are fully in the next page */
+ buffer = (void *) ab->data + (buffer - (start + size));
+ end = (void *) ab->data + rest;
while (buffer < end)
buffer = handle_ar_packet(ctx, buffer);