IB/nes: Return an error on ib_copy_from_udata() failure instead of NULL
In case of error while accessing to userspace memory, function nes_create_qp() returns NULL instead of an error code wrapped through ERR_PTR(). But NULL is not expected by ib_uverbs_create_qp(), as it check for error with IS_ERR(). As page 0 is likely not mapped, it is going to trigger an Oops when the kernel will try to dereference NULL pointer to access to struct ib_qp's fields. In some rare cases, page 0 could be mapped by userspace, which could turn this bug to a vulnerability that could be exploited: the function pointers in struct ib_device will be under userspace total control. This was caught when using spatch (aka. coccinelle) to rewrite calls to ib_copy_{from,to}_udata(). Link: https://www.gitorious.org/opteya/ib-hw-nes-create-qp-null Link: https://www.gitorious.org/opteya/coccib/source/75ebf2c1033c64c1d81df13e4ae44ee99c989eba:ib_copy_udata.cocci Link: http://marc.info/?i=cover.1394485254.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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