linux-kernel - Re: BUG: bad usercopy in memdup

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:50:43 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        syzbot 
        <bot+719398b443fd30155f92f2a888e749026c62b427@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>, keun-o.park@...kmatter.ae,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: BUG: bad usercopy in memdup_user

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:48:49PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> Well, for example seeing a 0xfffffffffffffff4 where a pointer to object
> must have been is a pretty strong hint to start looking for a way for
> that ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) having ended up there...  Something like
> 0x6e69622f7273752f is almost certainly a misplaced "/usr/bin", i.e. a
> pathname overwriting whatever it ends up in, etc.  And yes, I have run
> into both of those in real life.
> 
> Debugging the situation when crap value has ended up in place of a
> pointer is certainly a case where you do want to see what exactly has
> ended up in there...

Linus, how would you feel about printing ERR_PTRs without molestation?
It's not going to leak any information about the kernel address space
layout.  I'm a little less certain about trying to detect ASCII strings,
but I think this is an improvement.

diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 01c3957b2de6..c80c60b4b3ef 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -1859,6 +1859,9 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
 		return string(buf, end, "(null)", spec);
 	}
 
+	if (IS_ERR(ptr))
+		return pointer_string(buf, end, ptr, spec);
+
 	switch (*fmt) {
 	case 'F':
 	case 'f':