linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Check real user/group id for %pK

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Message-ID: <5255DBD8.30005@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:42:32 +1100
From:	Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, eldad@...refinery.com,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com,
	Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Check real user/group id for %pK

On 10/10/13 09:33, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 09:25 +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> 
>> 	if (kptr_restrict && (in_irq() || in_serving_softirq() ||
>> 			      in_nmi())) {
>>
>> Is making sure that you don't have kernel code doing something like this:
>>
>> 	irqreturn_t some_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
>> 	{
>> 		struct seq_file *seq = to_seq(data);
>>
>> 		seq_printf(seq, "value = %pK\n");
>> 		return IRQ_HANDLED;
>> 	}
>>
>> Because that obviously won't work when kptr_restrict=1 (because the
>> CAP_SYSLOG check is meaningless). However, the code is broken regardless
>> of the kptr_restrict value.
> 
> The only brokenness I see here is that the code doesn't pass
> a pointer along with %pK
> 
> 		seq_printf(seq, "value of seq: %pK\n", seq);
> 
>>  Since the default value of kptr_restrict is
>> 0, this kind of bug can go over-looked because the seq file will print
>> the pointer value correctly when kptr_restrict=0, and it will correctly
>> print 0's when kptr_restrict=2, but it will print 'pK-error' when
>> kptr_restrict=1. Doing the check in all cases makes it more likely that
>> bugs like this get found. In fact, doing something like:
>>
>> 	if (WARN_ON(in_irq() || in_serving_softirq() || in_nmi())) {
>>
>> Might be better, since that will print a stack-trace showing where the
>> offending vsprintf is.
> 
> WARN_ON would be potentially _very_ noisy.
> Maybe a long period (once a day?) ratelimited dump_stack();

If it was noisy, it would indicate a bunch of broken kernel code which
needs fixing :-). Anyway, this is really a separate issue to what I am
trying to fix, which is why I left the original code intact. If you want
to change it, post a follow-up patch.

~Ryan

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