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Message-ID: <202109231746.7B4C306CEC@keescook>
Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:01:51 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>,
        0day robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...ts.01.org,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>,
        Vito Caputo <vcaputo@...garu.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: /proc/$pid/chan kernel address exposures (was Re: [proc/wchan]
 30a3a19273:
 leaking-addresses.proc.wchan./proc/bus/input/devices:B:KEY=1000000000007ff980000000007fffebeffdfffeffffffffffffffffffffe)

On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 07:25:36PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 1/3/21 3:27 PM, kernel test robot wrote:
> > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):
> >
> > commit: 30a3a192730a997bc4afff5765254175b6fb64f3 ("[PATCH] proc/wchan: Use printk format instead of lookup_symbol_name()")
> > url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Helge-Deller/proc-wchan-Use-printk-format-instead-of-lookup_symbol_name/20201218-010048
> > base: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 09162bc32c880a791c6c0668ce0745cf7958f576
> >
> > in testcase: leaking-addresses
> > version: leaking-addresses-x86_64-4f19048-1_20201111
> > [...]
> > caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
> 
> I don't see anything wrong with the wchan patch (30a3a192730a997bc4afff5765254175b6fb64f3),
> or that it could have leaked anything.
> 
> Maybe the kernel test robot picked up the wchan patch by mistake ?
>
> > [...]
> > [2 wchan] 0xffffc9000000003c
       ^^^^^

As the root cause of a kernel address exposure, Jann pointed out[2]
commit 152c432b128c, which I've tracked to here, only to discover this
regression was, indeed, reported. :(

So, we have a few things:

1) wchan has been reporting "0" in the default x86 config (ORC unwinder)
   for 4 years now.

2) non-x86 or non-ORC, wchan has been leaking raw kernel addresses since
   commit 152c432b128c (v5.12).

3) the output of scripts/leaking_addresses.pl is hard to read. :)

We can fix 1 and 2 with:
   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210923233105.4045080-1-keescook@chromium.org/
(though that will need a Cc: stable now...)

If we don't do that, we still need to revert 152c432b128c in v5.12 and
later.

We should likely make leaking_addresses.pl a little more readable while
we're at it.

-Kees

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210921193249.el476vlhg5k6lfcq@shells.gnugeneration.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez2zC=+PuNgezH53HBPZ8CXU5H=vkWx7nJs60G8RXt3w0Q@mail.gmail.com/

-- 
Kees Cook