Future of Ozwpan Driver - Maintainer? [Was: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ozwpan: Four remote packet-of-death vulnerabilities]

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 03:34:57PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With four security critical bug patches having finally been put in
> Greg's for-linus branch [1][2][3][4], I'd like to turn attention back
> at the bigger issue. Where is the maintainer of this driver during
> these discussions? The MAINTAINERS file lists Shigekatsu Tateno, and
> in a commit [5] from May of last year, Rupesh Gujare turned over
> maintenance to him.
> 
> I ask because I also noted another important vulnerability in my
> original patch series cover letter, with the hope that the actual
> maintainer would take care of patching this, as it is likely a little
> bit nuanced:
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
> > On a slightly related note, there are several other vulnerabilities in
> > this driver that are worth looking into. When ozwpan receives a packet,
> > it casts the packet into a variety of different structs, based on the
> > value of type and length parameters inside the packet. When making these
> > casts, and when reading bytes based on this length parameter, the actual
> > length of the packet in the socket buffer is never actually consulted. As
> > such, it's very likely that a packet could be sent that results in the
> > kernel reading memory in adjacent buffers, resulting in an information
> > leak, or from unpaged addresses, resulting in a crash. In the former case,
> > it may be possible with certain message types to actually send these
> > leaked adjacent bytes back to the sender of the packet. So, I'd highly
> > recommend the maintainers of this driver go branch-by-branch from the
> > initial rx function, adding checks to ensure all reads and casts are
> > within the bounds of the socket buffer.
> 
> It seems a bit odd to not receive any review from the actual
> maintainer, and seeing that there is still a pending security issue
> that hasn't been addressed, I wonder if we should revisit what Dan
> suggested last week:
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> > Maybe we should just delete these ozwpan drivers entirely...  They were
> > merged when Ozmodevices was its own company and I don't think anyone is
> > working on them any more.
> 
> I know for a fact that the drivers *are* in use places, though not
> necessarily with the upstream codebase. Also, it was more or less
> exactly a year ago when Atmel appointed the new maintainer, which
> makes me hope that somebody there still cares about them. But I'm not
> sure exactly.
> 
> What's the best way to proceed? Is anybody in a position to reach out
> and nudge the maintainer? Or is it just the case that Atmel's vacation
> policy is awesome, and he's just been hanging out on the beach, and
> I'm jumping the gun with this email?

I don't know, but I'm a bit loath to delete the driver from the tree as
then people will just continue to use the version with all of the bugs.

If Atmel doesn't want to maintain the code anymore, do you want to do
it?  You can always send patches for this issue, as you seem to have the
hardware and can do testing, which I can't.

thanks,

greg k-h