[PATCH] pci: aspm: fix memory read outside buffer

IvanHu ivan.hu at canonical.com
Thu May 17 10:12:16 UTC 2012


On 05/17/2012 02:11 PM, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Alex Hung<alex.hung at canonical.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/16/2012 02:03 AM, Colin King wrote:
>>> From: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>>>
>>> valgrind picked up the following bug:
>>>
>>> ==32563== Invalid read of size 1
>>> ==32563==    at 0x41DB6C: pcie_check_aspm_registers (aspm.c:247)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x534131C: fwts_framework_args (fwts_framework.c:608)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x403C68: main (main.c:27)
>>> ==32563==  Address 0x62e9ba3 is 2 bytes after a block of size 1 alloc'd
>>> ==32563==    at 0x4C29DB4: calloc (in
>>> /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x5346F20: fwts_list_from_text (fwts_text_list.c:109)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x5345E94: fwts_pipe_exec (fwts_pipeio.c:149)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x41DB38: pcie_check_aspm_registers (aspm.c:236)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x534131C: fwts_framework_args (fwts_framework.c:608)
>>> ==32563==    by 0x403C68: main (main.c:27)
>>>
>>> this occurs when parsing the output from lspci - the code is reading
>>> outside the
>>> returned string and we need to check for short strings before parsing the
>>> line.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King<colin.king at canonical.com>
>>> ---
>>>   src/pci/aspm/aspm.c |    2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/pci/aspm/aspm.c b/src/pci/aspm/aspm.c
>>> index c3c1c71..c461ce8 100644
>>> --- a/src/pci/aspm/aspm.c
>>> +++ b/src/pci/aspm/aspm.c
>>> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ int pcie_check_aspm_registers(fwts_framework *fw,
>>>                         char *line = fwts_text_list_text(item);
>>>                         char *pEnd;
>>>
>>> -                       if (line[3] == ' ') {
>>> +                       if (strlen(line)>= 3&&    line[3] == ' ') {
>>>                                 reg_val = strtol(line,&pEnd, 16);
>>>                                 for (i = 0; reg_loc<    256&&    i<    16; i++) {
>>>
>>>                                         reg_val = strtol(pEnd + 1,&pEnd,
>>> 16);
>>
>> Thanks for catching that.
>>
>> Acked-by: Alex Hung<alex.hung at canonical.com>
>>
> Acked-by: Keng-Yu Lin<kengyu at canonical.com>
>
Acked-by: Ivan Hu<ivan.hu at canonical.com>




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