linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] qnx4: fix to avoid panic due to buffer overflow

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:26:55 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>
Cc: Ronald Monthero <debug.penguin32@...il.com>, gustavoars@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qnx4: fix to avoid panic due to buffer overflow

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 05:48:20PM +0100, Anders Larsen wrote:
> On 2023-11-16 15:58 Kees Cook wrote:
> >         if ((de->di_status & QNX4_FILE_LINK) == QNX4_FILE_LINK) {
> >                 lnk = (struct qnx4_link_info *) de;
> > 
> > It seems that entries may be either struct qnx4_inode_entry or struct
> > qnx4_link_info but it's not captured in a union.
> > 
> > This needs to be fixed by not lying to the compiler about what is there.
> > 
> > How about this?
> 
> > diff --git a/fs/qnx4/namei.c b/fs/qnx4/namei.c
> > index 8d72221735d7..3cd20065bcfa 100644
> > --- a/fs/qnx4/namei.c
> > +++ b/fs/qnx4/namei.c
> > @@ -26,31 +26,39 @@
> >  static int qnx4_match(int len, const char *name,
> >  		      struct buffer_head *bh, unsigned long *offset)
> >  {
> > -	struct qnx4_inode_entry *de;
> > -	int namelen, thislen;
> > +	union qnx4_dir_entry *de;
> > +	char *entry_fname;
> > +	int entry_len, entry_max_len;
> > 
> >  	if (bh == NULL) {
> >  		printk(KERN_WARNING "qnx4: matching unassigned buffer !
> \n");
> >  		return 0;
> >  	}
> > -	de = (struct qnx4_inode_entry *) (bh->b_data + *offset);
> > +	de = (union qnx4_dir_entry *) (bh->b_data + *offset);
> >  	*offset += QNX4_DIR_ENTRY_SIZE;
> > -	if ((de->di_status & QNX4_FILE_LINK) != 0) {
> > -		namelen = QNX4_NAME_MAX;
> > -	} else {
> > -		namelen = QNX4_SHORT_NAME_MAX;
> > -	}
> > -	thislen = strlen( de->di_fname );
> > -	if ( thislen > namelen )
> > -		thislen = namelen;
> > -	if (len != thislen) {
> > +
> > +	switch (de->inode.di_status) {
> > +	case QNX4_FILE_LINK:
> > +		entry_fname = de->link.dl_fname;
> > +		entry_max_len = sizeof(de->link.dl_fname);
> > +		break;
> > +	case QNX4_FILE_USED:
> > +		entry_fname = de->inode.di_fname;
> > +		entry_max_len = sizeof(de->inode.di_fname);
> > +		break;
> > +	default:
> >  		return 0;
> >  	}
> 
> The switch won't work since the _status field is a bit-field, so we should 
> rather reuse the similar union-logic already present in fs/qnx4/dir.c

Ah, okay, LINK and USED might both be there. And perfect, yes, it looks
like the union qnx4_directory_entry in fs/qnx4/dir.c would be perfect.

-Kees

> > -	if (strncmp(name, de->di_fname, len) == 0) {
> > -		if ((de->di_status & (QNX4_FILE_USED|QNX4_FILE_LINK)) !
> = 0) {
> > -			return 1;
> > -		}
> > -	}
> > +
> > +	/* Directory entry may not be %NUL-terminated. */
> > +	entry_len = strnlen(entry_fname, entry_max_len);
> > +
> > +	if (len != entry_len)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	if (strncmp(name, entry_fname, len) == 0)
> > +		return 1;
> > +
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/qnx4_fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/qnx4_fs.h
> > index 31487325d265..e033dbe1e009 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/qnx4_fs.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/qnx4_fs.h
> > @@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ struct qnx4_link_info {
> >  	__u8		dl_status;
> >  };
> > 
> > +union qnx4_dir_entry {
> > +	struct qnx4_inode_entry inode;
> > +	struct qnx4_link_info link;
> > +};
> > +_Static_assert(offsetof(struct qnx4_inode_entry, di_status) ==
> > +	       offsetof(struct qnx4_link_info, dl_status));
> > +
> >  struct qnx4_xblk {
> >  	__le32		xblk_next_xblk;
> >  	__le32		xblk_prev_xblk;
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Kees Cook