[PATCH] drm: Return -ENOTTY for non-drm ioctls

Charles Baylis cb-kernel at fishzet.co.uk
Fri Jul 16 16:43:12 UTC 2021


Hi

The attached patch fixes a problem where non-drm ioctls are incorrectly
handled by drm drivers. 

This causes problems when isatty() is called on a file descriptor which
was opened on a drm device node. Glibc implements isatty() by invoking
the TCGETS ioctl on the fd. TCGETS is 0x5401, so this is handled by drm_ioctl
as DRM_IOCTL_GET_UNIQUE, which succeeds, so isatty() returns true.

As a side effect, DRM_IOCTL_GET_UNIQUE also writes to a pointer, in the
argument buffer, so the calling application's memory can be corrupted, causing
a crash later.

Tested on an Ubuntu 20.10 VM under qemu with virgl:
* "if [ -t 0 ]; then echo is a tty; fi < /dev/dri/card0" outputs nothing
* glxgears still works

Thanks
Charles
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commit 0072b12086cdf7350df75d36a12d392e3ba92865
Author: Charles Baylis <cb-kernel at fishzet.co.uk>
Date:   Fri Jul 16 11:58:47 2021 +0100

    drm: Return -ENOTTY for non-drm ioctls
    
    Return -ENOTTY from drm_ioctl() when userspace passes in a cmd number
    which doesn't relate to the drm subsystem.
    
    Glibc uses the TCGETS ioctl to implement isatty(), and without this
    change isatty() returns it incorrectly returns true for drm devices.
    
    To test run this command:
       $ if [ -t 0 ]; then echo is a tty; fi < /dev/dri/card0
    which shows "is a tty" without this patch.
    
    This may also modify memory which the userspace application is not
    expecting.
    
    Signed-off-by: Charles Baylis <cb-kernel at fishzet.co.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
index 98ae00661656..f454e0424086 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
@@ -834,6 +834,9 @@ long drm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
 	if (drm_dev_is_unplugged(dev))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+       if (DRM_IOCTL_TYPE(cmd) != DRM_IOCTL_BASE)
+               return -ENOTTY;
+
 	is_driver_ioctl = nr >= DRM_COMMAND_BASE && nr < DRM_COMMAND_END;
 
 	if (is_driver_ioctl) {
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_ioctl.h b/include/drm/drm_ioctl.h
index 10100a4bbe2a..afb27cb6a7bd 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_ioctl.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_ioctl.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ typedef int drm_ioctl_compat_t(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
 			       unsigned long arg);
 
 #define DRM_IOCTL_NR(n)                _IOC_NR(n)
+#define DRM_IOCTL_TYPE(n)              _IOC_TYPE(n)
 #define DRM_MAJOR       226
 
 /**


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