NACK: [SRU][Trusty] ixgbe: check for vfs outside of sriov_num_vfs before dereference
Heitor Alves de Siqueira
halves at canonical.com
Tue Feb 12 12:15:19 UTC 2019
Will send v2 with correct author.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:43 PM Heitor R. Alves de Siqueira <
halves at canonical.com> wrote:
> BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/1815501
>
> The check for vfinfo is not sufficient because it does not protect
> against specifying vf that is outside of sriov_num_vfs range.
> All of the ndo functions have a check for it except for
> ixgbevf_ndo_set_spoofcheck().
>
> The following patch is all we need to protect against this panic:
>
> ip link set p96p1 vf 0 spoofchk off
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000052
> IP: [<ffffffffa044a1c1>]
> ixgbe_ndo_set_vf_spoofchk+0x51/0x150 [ixgbe]
>
> Reported-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
> (cherry pick from commit 600a507ddcb99096731e1d96a3ebf43e20fc7f80 upstream)
> Signed-off-by: Heitor R. Alves de Siqueira <halves at canonical.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
> index 72084f70adbb..45ec9cb6a474 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
> @@ -1248,6 +1248,9 @@ int ixgbe_ndo_set_vf_spoofchk(struct net_device
> *netdev, int vf, bool setting)
> struct ixgbe_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
> u32 regval;
>
> + if (vf >= adapter->num_vfs)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> adapter->vfinfo[vf].spoofchk_enabled = setting;
>
> regval = IXGBE_READ_REG(hw, IXGBE_PFVFSPOOF(vf_target_reg));
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
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