linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] sctp: prefer struct

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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 19:33:05 -0400
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
To: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>, 
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 1:23 PM Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com> wrote:
>
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].
>
> As the "ids" variable is a pointer to "struct sctp_assoc_ids" and this
> structure ends in a flexible array:
>
> struct sctp_assoc_ids {
>         [...]
>         sctp_assoc_t    gaids_assoc_id[];
> };
>
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + size * count" in
> the kmalloc() function.
>
> Also, refactor the code adding the "ids_size" variable to avoid sizing
> twice.
>
> This way, the code is more readable and safer.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
> modified manually.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> The Coccinelle script used to detect this code pattern is the following:
>
> virtual report
>
> @rule1@
> type t1;
> type t2;
> identifier i0;
> identifier i1;
> identifier i2;
> identifier ALLOC =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kmalloc_node|kzalloc_node|vmalloc|vzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
> position p1;
> @@
>
> i0 = sizeof(t1) + sizeof(t2) * i1;
> ...
> i2 = ALLOC@p1(..., i0, ...);
>
> @script:python depends on report@
> p1 << rule1.p1;
> @@
>
> msg = "WARNING: verify allocation on line %s" % (p1[0].line)
> coccilib.report.print_report(p1[0],msg)
>
> Regards,
> Erick
> ---
>  net/sctp/socket.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
> index e416b6d3d270..64196b1dce1d 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/socket.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
> @@ -7119,6 +7119,7 @@ static int sctp_getsockopt_assoc_ids(struct sock *sk, int len,
>         struct sctp_sock *sp = sctp_sk(sk);
>         struct sctp_association *asoc;
>         struct sctp_assoc_ids *ids;
> +       size_t ids_size;
>         u32 num = 0;
>
>         if (sctp_style(sk, TCP))
> @@ -7131,11 +7132,11 @@ static int sctp_getsockopt_assoc_ids(struct sock *sk, int len,
>                 num++;
>         }
>
> -       if (len < sizeof(struct sctp_assoc_ids) + sizeof(sctp_assoc_t) * num)
> +       ids_size = struct_size(ids, gaids_assoc_id, num);
> +       if (len < ids_size)
>                 return -EINVAL;
>
> -       len = sizeof(struct sctp_assoc_ids) + sizeof(sctp_assoc_t) * num;
> -
> +       len = ids_size;
>         ids = kmalloc(len, GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN);
>         if (unlikely(!ids))
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.25.1
>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>