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SubjectRe: [CHECKER] potential dereference of user pointer errors

Thanks a lot for your confirmation! So actually the first copy_from_user
is meant to copy in what "*data" points to, not "data".

-Junfeng

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Chris Wright wrote:

> * Junfeng Yang (yjf@stanford.edu) wrote:
> >
> > [BUG] not sure. the dereference occurs at a tainted place. call
> > copy_from_user (, data, ), then copy_from_user (, *data, )
> >
> > /home/junfeng/linux-2.5.63/sound/core/seq/instr/ainstr_iw.c:92:snd_seq_iwffff_copy_env_from_stream:
> > ERROR:TAINTED deferencing "data" tainted by [dist=0][copy_from_user:parm1]
>
> seems like a bug, although i think it's the first copy_from_user that
> would be broken.
>
> Looks like call flow could be something like:
> Store user buf ptr in event.data.ext.ptr.
> Call snd_seq_iwffff_put with the event.data.ext.ptr (offset by header bits)
> Call snd_seq_iwffff_copy_env_from_stream with &event.data.ext.ptr (offset a
> little further).
>
> Finally, call copy_from_user on &event.data.ext.ptr, which is copying
> into an stype. This looks like it's the bug. I don't think the 32 bit
> addr should be copied into the stype, rather the 1st 32bits of the data
> (IOW copy_from_user(stype, *data,...)). The second copy_from_user (with
> *data) copies in the whole iwffff_env_record_t struct which begins with
> an stype, so it really looks as if the first copy is broken. Patch
> below. Jaroslav?
>
> thanks,
> -chris
> --
> Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
>
> ===== instr/ainstr_iw.c 1.3 vs edited =====
> --- 1.3/sound/core/seq/instr/ainstr_iw.c Mon Feb 10 02:39:27 2003
> +++ edited/instr/ainstr_iw.c Fri Mar 21 13:01:32 2003
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
> while (1) {
> if (*len < (long)sizeof(__u32))
> return -EINVAL;
> - if (copy_from_user(&stype, data, sizeof(stype)))
> + if (copy_from_user(&stype, *data, sizeof(stype)))
> return -EFAULT;
> if (stype == IWFFFF_STRU_WAVE)
> return 0;
>

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