linux/drivers/base/firmware_loader
Rishabh Bhatnagar 422b3db2a5 firmware: Fix security issue with request_firmware_into_buf()
When calling request_firmware_into_buf() with the FW_OPT_NOCACHE flag
it is expected that firmware is loaded into buffer from memory.
But inside alloc_lookup_fw_priv every new firmware that is loaded is
added to the firmware cache (fwc) list head. So if any driver requests
a firmware that is already loaded the code iterates over the above
mentioned list and it can end up giving a pointer to other device driver's
firmware buffer.
Also the existing copy may either be modified by drivers, remote processors
or even freed. This causes a potential security issue with batched requests
when using request_firmware_into_buf.

Fix alloc_lookup_fw_priv to not add to the fwc head list if FW_OPT_NOCACHE
is set, and also don't do the lookup in the list.

Fixes: 0e742e9275 ("firmware: provide infrastructure to make fw caching optional")
[mcgrof: broken since feature introduction on v4.8]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rishabh Bhatnagar <rishabhb@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-09-12 09:31:00 +02:00
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fallback_table.c firmware: enable to force disable the fallback mechanism at run time 2018-03-20 09:28:47 +01:00
fallback.c mm: provide a fallback for PAGE_KERNEL_RO for architectures 2018-08-17 16:20:29 -07:00
fallback.h firmware: rename fw_sysfs_fallback to firmware_fallback_sysfs() 2018-05-14 16:43:09 +02:00
firmware.h firmware: rename fw_sysfs_fallback to firmware_fallback_sysfs() 2018-05-14 16:43:09 +02:00
Kconfig firmware_loader: move kconfig FW_LOADER entries to its own file 2018-05-14 16:43:10 +02:00
main.c firmware: Fix security issue with request_firmware_into_buf() 2018-09-12 09:31:00 +02:00
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