BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553179
commit
7326fffb712f09a315bc73cc1ee63843f59b8bd4 upstream.
This patch address a possible security issue:
The request field in client notify request ioctl comes from user space
as u32 and is downcasted to u8 with out validation.
Check request field to have approved values
MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_STAR/STOP
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
{
struct mei_cl *cl = file->private_data;
- return mei_cl_notify_request(cl, file, request);
+ if (request != MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_START &&
+ request != MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_STOP)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return mei_cl_notify_request(cl, file, (u8)request);
}
/**