From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:67c:670:201:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1hg268-0004o8-B2 for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:12:05 +0000 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:12:02 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20190626071202.yvzsac4ysbalixm3@pengutronix.de> References: <20190619104916.4128-1-antonynpavlov@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190619104916.4128-1-antonynpavlov@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [RFC] sandbox: prevent segfault in tap_alloc() To: Antony Pavlov Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org, Oleksij Rempel Hi Antony, On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 01:49:16PM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote: > Tap network interface initialization in sandbox > barebox leads to segfault under Debian Buster/Sid. > > The problem is that strcpy(dev, ifr.ifr_name) inside > tap_alloc() tries to alter read-only data passed > by tap_probe() and barebox receives SIGSEGV. > > Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov > --- > drivers/net/tap.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/tap.c b/drivers/net/tap.c > index 1fbfa085b1..d7e32f4875 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/tap.c > +++ b/drivers/net/tap.c > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ > > struct tap_priv { > int fd; > - char *name; > + char name[128]; > }; > > static int tap_eth_send(struct eth_device *edev, void *packet, int length) > @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static int tap_probe(struct device_d *dev) > int ret = 0; > > priv = xzalloc(sizeof(struct tap_priv)); > - priv->name = "barebox"; > + strncpy(priv->name, "barebox", sizeof(priv->name)); > > priv->fd = tap_alloc(priv->name); Can we change the prototype of tap_alloc() to something like this: int tap_alloc(const char *name, int *fd, char **outname); outname would be an allocated string to be freed by the caller. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox