Re: [PATCH][next] wifi: brcmfmac: fweh: Fix boot crash on Raspberry Pi 4

[Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>]

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On 2/27/2024 10:19 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Fix boot crash on Raspberry Pi by moving the update to `event->datalen`
>> before data is copied into flexible-array member `data` via `memcpy()`.
>>
>> Flexible-array member `data` was annotated with `__counted_by(datalen)`
>> in commit 62d19b358088 ("wifi: brcmfmac: fweh: Add __counted_by for
>> struct brcmf_fweh_queue_item and use struct_size()"). The intention of
>> this is to gain visibility into the size of `data` at run-time through
>> its _counter_ (in this case `datalen`), and with this have its accesses
>> bounds-checked at run-time via CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE and
>> CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS.
>>
>> To effectively accomplish the above, we shall update the counter
>> (`datalen`), before the first access to the flexible array (`data`),
>> which was also done in the mentioned commit.
>>
>> However, commit edec42821911 ("wifi: brcmfmac: allow per-vendor event
>> handling") inadvertently caused a buffer overflow, detected by
>> FORTIFY_SOURCE. It moved the `event->datalen = datalen;` update to after
>> the first `data` access, at which point `event->datalen` was not yet
>> updated from zero (after calling `kzalloc()`), leading to the overflow
>> issue.
>>
>> This fix repositions the `event->datalen = datalen;` update before
>> accessing `data`, restoring the intended buffer overflow protection. :)
>>
>> Fixes: edec42821911 ("wifi: brcmfmac: allow per-vendor event handling")
>> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
>> Closes: https://gist.github.com/nathanchance/e22f681f3bfc467f15cdf6605021aaa6
>> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> Arend, ack?

Figured Kees Cook was the trumping authority here, but here it is:

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

Gr. AvS

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