Re: [PATCH] thermal: intel_powerclamp: Check for a possible array out of bounds access.

From: srinivas pandruvada
Date: Mon Jun 05 2023 - 12:37:23 EST


On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 18:13 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Cc list trimmed.
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 11:12 AM Daniil Dulov <d.dulov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > ratio may be equal to MAX_TARGET_RATIO - 1 that will result in
> > out of bound access.
> >
The description was not clear to me.

May be something like this:

"
The max value of "ratio" parameter passed to the function
get_compensation() is MAX_TARGET_RATIO - 1. The size of cal_data array
is MAX_TARGET_RATIO. Hence, accessing cal_data[ratio + 1], will result
in out of bound access.

Add a condition to check ratio < MAX_TARGET_RATIO - 1, before accsssing
cal_data[ratio + 1].
"

The change is correct. But for actual code change,
the ratio < MAX_TARGET_RATIO - 1 is also checked in else if() before,
which can be merged to check only once for this condition.

Thanks,
Srinivas






> > Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
> >
> > Fixes: d6d71ee4a14a ("PM: Introduce Intel PowerClamp Driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Daniil Dulov <d.dulov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> > b/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> > index fb04470d7d4b..9deaf2b8ccf6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> > @@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ static unsigned int get_compensation(int ratio)
> >                 comp = (cal_data[ratio].steady_comp +
> >                         cal_data[ratio - 1].steady_comp +
> >                         cal_data[ratio - 2].steady_comp) / 3;
> > -       } else if (cal_data[ratio].confidence >= CONFIDENCE_OK &&

I think the concern is that cal_data[ratio + 1] is going out of bound
for the "ratio" passed to this function, when ratio ==
ARRAY_SIZE(cal_data) - 1;

Here size of cal_data array is 50. The max possible "ratio" passed can
be 49.




> > +       } else if (ratio < MAX_TARGET_RATIO - 1 &&
> > +               cal_data[ratio].confidence >= CONFIDENCE_OK &&
> >                 cal_data[ratio - 1].confidence >= CONFIDENCE_OK &&
> >                 cal_data[ratio + 1].confidence >= CONFIDENCE_OK) {
> >                 comp = (cal_data[ratio].steady_comp +
> > --
>
> Rui, Srinivas, can you have a look at this, please?