[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 103/129] serial: omap: Prevent DoS using unprivileged ioctl(TIOCSRS485)

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Feb 26 10:21:14 UTC 2016


3.16.7-ckt25 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>

commit 308bbc9ab838d0ace0298268c7970ba9513e2c65 upstream.

The omap-serial driver emulates RS485 delays using software timers,
but neglects to clamp the input values from the unprivileged
ioctl(TIOCSRS485). Because the software implementation busy-waits,
malicious userspace could stall the cpu for ~49 days.

Clamp the input values to < 100ms.

Fixes: 4a0ac0f55b18 ("OMAP: add RS485 support")
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
index e454b7c2ecd9..9053aa7a970f 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
@@ -1350,7 +1350,7 @@ static inline void serial_omap_add_console_port(struct uart_omap_port *up)
 
 /* Enable or disable the rs485 support */
 static void
-serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485conf)
+serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485)
 {
 	struct uart_omap_port *up = to_uart_omap_port(port);
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -1365,8 +1365,12 @@ serial_omap_config_rs485(struct uart_port *port, struct serial_rs485 *rs485conf)
 	up->ier = 0;
 	serial_out(up, UART_IER, 0);
 
+	/* Clamp the delays to [0, 100ms] */
+	rs485->delay_rts_before_send = min(rs485->delay_rts_before_send, 100U);
+	rs485->delay_rts_after_send  = min(rs485->delay_rts_after_send, 100U);
+
 	/* store new config */
-	up->rs485 = *rs485conf;
+	up->rs485 = *rs485;
 
 	/*
 	 * Just as a precaution, only allow rs485




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