linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] bpf, test_run: Track allocation size of data

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Message-ID: <202210180948.0A0D16844D@keescook>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 09:56:32 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf, test_run: Track allocation size of data

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 09:29:07AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 2:02 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> > +       alloc->len = kmalloc_size_roundup(size + headroom + tailroom);
> > +       alloc->data = kzalloc(alloc->len, GFP_USER);
> 
> Don't you need to do this generalically in many places in the kernel?

The size tracking or the rounding up?

The need for rounding up is surprisingly rare[1] -- very few things actually
used ksize(), and almost all of them are due to following some variation
of a realloc idiom. I've sent patches for all of them now, so that should
be a short road to solving the problems ksize() created.

The need for missed size tracking is also pretty uncommon (most
dynamically sized things already track their size in some form
or another). Finding a truly generalizable solution is an ongoing
experiment[2].

-Kees

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220923202822.2667581-1-keescook@chromium.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/20220504014440.3697851-1-keescook@chromium.org/

-- 
Kees Cook