In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: clk-loongson2: Fix memory corruption bug in struct loongson2_clk_provider
Some heap space is allocated for the flexible structure struct
clk_hw_onecell_data and its flexible-array member hws through
the composite structure struct loongson2_clk_provider in function
loongson2_clk_probe(), as shown below:
289 struct loongson2_clk_provider *clp; ... 296 for (p = data; p->name; p++) 297 clks_num++; 298 299 clp = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(clp, clk_data.hws, clks_num), 300 GFP_KERNEL);
Then some data is written into the flexible array:
350 clp->clk_data.hws[p->id] = hw;
This corrupts clk_lock, which is the spinlock variable immediately
following the clk_data member in struct loongson2_clk_provider:
struct loongson2_clk_provider { void __iomem *base; struct device *dev; struct clk_hw_onecell_data clk_data; spinlock_t clk_lock; /* protect access to DIV registers */ };
The problem is that the flexible structure is currently placed in the
middle of struct loongson2_clk_provider instead of at the end.
Fix this by moving struct clk_hw_onecell_data clk_data; to the end of
struct loongson2_clk_provider. Also, add a code comment to help
prevent this from happening again in case new members are added to the
structure in the future.
This change also fixes the following -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning:
drivers/clk/clk-loongson2.c:32:36: warning: structure containing a flexible array member is not at the end of another structure [-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end]