ACK: [SRU][F][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2023-52614

Mehmet Basaran mehmet.basaran at canonical.com
Wed Sep 18 06:16:02 UTC 2024


Acked-by: Mehmet Basaran <mehmet.basaran at canonical.com>

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Koichiro Den <koichiro.den at canonical.com> writes:

> [Impact]
>
> PM / devfreq: Fix buffer overflow in trans_stat_show
>
> Fix buffer overflow in trans_stat_show().
>
> Convert simple snprintf to the more secure scnprintf with size of
> PAGE_SIZE.
>
> Add condition checking if we are exceeding PAGE_SIZE and exit early from
> loop. Also add at the end a warning that we exceeded PAGE_SIZE and that
> stats is disabled.
>
> Return -EFBIG in the case where we don't have enough space to write the
> full transition table.
>
> Also document in the ABI that this function can return -EFBIG error.
>
> [Backport]
>
> I crafted a custom diff that suits our tree to avoid unnecessary changes
> and new features. The key missing dependencies missing from our tree are
> as follows:
> - commit b5d281f6c16d ("PM / devfreq: Rework freq_table to be local to devfreq struct")
> - commit a03dacb0316f ("PM / devfreq: Add cpu based scaling support to passive governor")
> - commit 483d557ee9a3 ("PM / devfreq: Clean up the devfreq instance name in sysfs attr")
> - commit 1ebd0bc0e8ad ("PM / devfreq: Move statistics to separate struct devfreq_stats")
> - commit 14a343968199 ("PM / devfreq: Add clearing transitions stats")
> - commit b76b3479dab9 ("PM / devfreq: Change time stats to 64-bit")
> - commit 5c0f6c795957 ("PM / devfreq: Add new interrupt_driven flag for governors")
>
> [Fix]
>
> Noble:  fixed via stable
> Jammy:  fixed via stable
> Focal:  Backport - crafted diff manually, see [Backport]
> Bionic: fix sent to esm ML
> Xenial: fix sent to esm ML
> Trusty: won't fix
>
> [Test Case]
>
> Compile and boot tested
>
> [Where problems could occur]
>
> This fix affects platforms that provide OPP table and request devfreq
> feature, an issue with this fix would cause buffer overflow when reading
> /sys/class/devfreq/.../trans_stat if the output exceeds PAGE_SIZE.
>
>
> Christian Marangi (1):
>   PM / devfreq: Fix buffer overflow in trans_stat_show
>
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq |  2 +
>  drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c                     | 60 +++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> -- 
> 2.43.0
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