[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "sg: fix dxferp in from_to case" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Apr 4 23:21:04 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    sg: fix dxferp in from_to case

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt38.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 8be1b165d5f07d24233eeab4c583051a9294081c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert at interlog.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 00:31:29 -0500
Subject: sg: fix dxferp in from_to case

commit 5ecee0a3ee8d74b6950cb41e8989b0c2174568d4 upstream.

One of the strange things that the original sg driver did was let the
user provide both a data-out buffer (it followed the sg_header+cdb)
_and_ specify a reply length greater than zero. What happened was that
the user data-out buffer was copied into some kernel buffers and then
the mid level was told a read type operation would take place with the
data from the device overwriting the same kernel buffers. The user would
then read those kernel buffers back into the user space.

>From what I can tell, the above action was broken by commit fad7f01e61bf
("sg: set dxferp to NULL for READ with the older SG interface") in 2008
and syzkaller found that out recently.

Make sure that a user space pointer is passed through when data follows
the sg_header structure and command.  Fix the abnormal case when a
non-zero reply_len is also given.

Fixes: fad7f01e61bf737fe8a3740d803f000db57ecac6
Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert at interlog.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Milne <emilne at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/sg.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index 0be16bf..1f65e32 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -633,7 +633,8 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos)
 	else
 		hp->dxfer_direction = (mxsize > 0) ? SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV : SG_DXFER_NONE;
 	hp->dxfer_len = mxsize;
-	if (hp->dxfer_direction == SG_DXFER_TO_DEV)
+	if ((hp->dxfer_direction == SG_DXFER_TO_DEV) ||
+	    (hp->dxfer_direction == SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV))
 		hp->dxferp = (char __user *)buf + cmd_size;
 	else
 		hp->dxferp = NULL;
--
2.7.4





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