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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 12/12] user_events: Validate user payloads for size and null termination
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:11:50 -0800
Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 04:50:47PM -0800, Beau Belgrave wrote:
> > +static int user_event_validate(struct user_event *user, void *data, int len)
> > +{
> > + struct list_head *head = &user->validators;
> > + struct user_event_validator *validator;
> > + void *pos, *end = data + len;
> > + u16 *val, offset, size;
> > +
> > + list_for_each_entry(validator, head, link) {
> > + pos = data + validator->offset;
> > + val = pos;
> > +
> > + /* Already done min_size check, no bounds check here */
> > + offset = *val++;
> > + size = *val++;
>
> I believe I have these backwards, size should come first for both dyn
> and rel data. Is this correct?

it's size << 16 | offset;


>
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c
> > index 9d53717139e6..bea694e9df8c 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/user_events/ftrace_test.c
> > @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ const char *status_file = "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/user_events_status";
> > const char *enable_file = "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/user_events/__test_event/enable";
> > const char *trace_file = "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace";
> >
> > +struct rel_loc {
> > + __u16 offset;
> > + __u16 size;
> > +} __packed;
> > +
>
> Same here.

I would not use pointer arithmetic or the above structure, as I'm not sure
they work the same for both big and little endian. It's best to just use
u32 and '|' (or) the two unsigned shorts into one integer.

-- Steve

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