linux-hardening - [PATCH] skbuff: Extract list pointers to silence compiler warnings

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon,  6 Dec 2021 22:27:58 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@...me>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>,
        Talal Ahmad <talalahmad@...gle.com>,
        Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] skbuff: Extract list pointers to silence compiler warnings

Under both -Warray-bounds and the object_size sanitizer, the compiler is
upset about accessing prev/next of sk_buff when the object it thinks it
is coming from is sk_buff_head. The warning is a false positive due to
the compiler taking a conservative approach, opting to warn at casting
time rather than access time.

However, in support of enabling -Warray-bounds globally (which has
found many real bugs), arrange things for sk_buff so that the compiler
can unambiguously see that there is no intention to access anything
except prev/next.  Introduce and cast to a separate struct sk_buff_list,
which contains _only_ the first two fields, silencing the warnings:

In file included from ./include/net/net_namespace.h:39,
                 from ./include/linux/netdevice.h:37,
                 from net/core/netpoll.c:17:
net/core/netpoll.c: In function 'refill_skbs':
./include/linux/skbuff.h:2086:9: warning: array subscript 'struct sk_buff[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'struct sk_buff_head[1]' [-Warray-bounds]
 2086 |         __skb_insert(newsk, next->prev, next, list);
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/core/netpoll.c:49:28: note: while referencing 'skb_pool'
   49 | static struct sk_buff_head skb_pool;
      |                            ^~~~~~~~

This change results in no executable instruction differences.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index eae4bd3237a4..ec71b45b62b0 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -292,9 +292,11 @@ struct tc_skb_ext {
 #endif
 
 struct sk_buff_head {
-	/* These two members must be first. */
-	struct sk_buff	*next;
-	struct sk_buff	*prev;
+	/* These two members must be first to match sk_buff. */
+	struct_group_tagged(sk_buff_list, list,
+		struct sk_buff	*next;
+		struct sk_buff	*prev;
+	);
 
 	__u32		qlen;
 	spinlock_t	lock;
@@ -730,7 +732,7 @@ typedef unsigned char *sk_buff_data_t;
 struct sk_buff {
 	union {
 		struct {
-			/* These two members must be first. */
+			/* These two members must be first to match sk_buff_head. */
 			struct sk_buff		*next;
 			struct sk_buff		*prev;
 
@@ -1976,8 +1978,8 @@ static inline void __skb_insert(struct sk_buff *newsk,
 	 */
 	WRITE_ONCE(newsk->next, next);
 	WRITE_ONCE(newsk->prev, prev);
-	WRITE_ONCE(next->prev, newsk);
-	WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, newsk);
+	WRITE_ONCE(((struct sk_buff_list *)next)->prev, newsk);
+	WRITE_ONCE(((struct sk_buff_list *)prev)->next, newsk);
 	WRITE_ONCE(list->qlen, list->qlen + 1);
 }
 
@@ -2073,7 +2075,7 @@ static inline void __skb_queue_after(struct sk_buff_head *list,
 				     struct sk_buff *prev,
 				     struct sk_buff *newsk)
 {
-	__skb_insert(newsk, prev, prev->next, list);
+	__skb_insert(newsk, prev, ((struct sk_buff_list *)prev)->next, list);
 }
 
 void skb_append(struct sk_buff *old, struct sk_buff *newsk,
@@ -2083,7 +2085,7 @@ static inline void __skb_queue_before(struct sk_buff_head *list,
 				      struct sk_buff *next,
 				      struct sk_buff *newsk)
 {
-	__skb_insert(newsk, next->prev, next, list);
+	__skb_insert(newsk, ((struct sk_buff_list *)next)->prev, next, list);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.30.2