linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, x86_64: Fix checks for userspace address limit

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Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 13:42:54 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, x86_64: Fix checks for userspace address limit


* Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:

> hi,
> there seems to be bug in the _copy_to_user and _copy_from_user
> functions, not allowing access to the last user page.
> 
> Also I tried to decipher the inline assembly in __range_not_ok,
> and it seems to work properly, but the macro comment seems to
> be misleading.
> 
> wbr,
> jirka
> 
> ---
> As shown in BZ 30352 (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30352)
> there's an issue with reading last allowed page on x86_64.
> 
> The _copy_to_user and _copy_from_user functions use following
> check for address limit:
> 
> if (buf + size >= limit)
> 	fail
> 
> while it should be:
> 
> if (buf + size > limit)
> 	fail
> 
> That's because the size represents the number of bytes being
> read/write from/to buf address AND including the buf address.
> So the copy function will actually never touch the limit
> address even if "buf + size == limit".
> 
> Following program fails to use the last page as buffer
> due to the wrong limit check.
> 
> ---
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <assert.h>
> 
> #define PAGE_SIZE       (4096)
> #define LAST_PAGE       ((void*)(0x7fffffffe000))
> 
> int main()
> {
>         int fds[2], err;
>         void * ptr = mmap(LAST_PAGE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>                           MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
>         assert(ptr == LAST_PAGE);
>         err = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
>         assert(err == 0);
>         err = send(fds[0], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
>         perror("send");
>         assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
>         err = recv(fds[1], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, MSG_WAITALL);
>         perror("recv");
>         assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
>         return 0;
> }
> ---
> 
> Other place checking the addr limit is access_ok function,
> which is working properly. There's just misleading comment
> for the __range_not_ok macro.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S    |    4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index abd3e0e..99f0ad7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>   * Returns 0 if the range is valid, nonzero otherwise.
>   *
>   * This is equivalent to the following test:
> - * (u33)addr + (u33)size >= (u33)current->addr_limit.seg (u65 for x86_64)
> + * (u33)addr + (u33)size > (u33)current->addr_limit.seg (u65 for x86_64)
>   *
>   * This needs 33-bit (65-bit for x86_64) arithmetic. We have a carry...
>   */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
> index 99e4826..a73397f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ ENTRY(_copy_to_user)
>  	addq %rdx,%rcx
>  	jc bad_to_user
>  	cmpq TI_addr_limit(%rax),%rcx
> -	jae bad_to_user
> +	ja bad_to_user
>  	ALTERNATIVE_JUMP X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD,copy_user_generic_unrolled,copy_user_generic_string
>  	CFI_ENDPROC
>  ENDPROC(_copy_to_user)
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ ENTRY(_copy_from_user)
>  	addq %rdx,%rcx
>  	jc bad_from_user
>  	cmpq TI_addr_limit(%rax),%rcx
> -	jae bad_from_user
> +	ja bad_from_user
>  	ALTERNATIVE_JUMP X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD,copy_user_generic_unrolled,copy_user_generic_string
>  	CFI_ENDPROC
>  ENDPROC(_copy_from_user)

Hm, something tickles me about this area that we would reintroduce a security 
hole, that we really wanted to treat the last page of user-space as some sort 
of guard page but i cannot quite remember it why ...

IIRC Linus wrote bits of this so i'm Cc:-ing him just in case he remembers.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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