Re: [PATCH v2] staging: gdm72xx: add userspace data struct

[Wim de With <nauxuron@wimdewith.com>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:44:45PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> (except that you mean sizeof(struct fsm_s) and it doesn't compile at the
> moment!

Oops, sloppy mistake.

> data_s can just be modified to be __user. All uses of it follow that
> rule.

What do you mean? The data still needs to be copied from user space to kernel
space, if I'm not mistaken. And not all uses follow that rule, since in both
gdm_wimax_ioctl_get_data() and gdm_wimax_ioctl_set_data() it is used as both
the source and destination in the copy_from_user() and copy_to_user() call.

> All I think you need in this case is
> 
> 	struct fsm_s fsm_buf;
> 
> 	if (copy_from_user(&fsm_buf, req->data.buf,sizeof(buf))
> 		return -EFAULT
> 	gdm_update_fsm(&fsm_buf);

Do you mean sizeof(fsm_s)? I realize this would have been far simpler than my
overkill solution.

> If you are touching the structs it might be wise to fix the other
> problems with them notably the use of int. sizes when used are unsigned -
> and signed sizes are asking for errors. In fact if you look at the
> existing uses of the size checks they look deeply suspicious the moment
> anything malicious passes in negative numbers.

I would love to do that, but it is a bit outside the scope of this patch, so I
would rather safe this for another patch.