APPLIED: [SRU v2][Trusty] ixgbe: check for vfs outside of sriov_num_vfs before dereference

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Mon Mar 4 04:23:39 UTC 2019


On 2019-02-12 10:54:42 , Heitor R. Alves de Siqueira wrote:
> From: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov at intel.com>
> 
> BugLink: https://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 picked from commit 600a507ddcb99096731e1d96a3ebf43e20fc7f80)
> 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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