linux-kernel - Re: 3.15: kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1525!

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:41:23 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.15: kernel BUG at kernel/auditsc.c:1525!

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:48 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 06/16/2014 02:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> To hpa, etc:  It appears that entry_32.S is missing any call to the
>> audit exit hook on the badsys path.  If I'm diagnosing this bug report
>> correctly, this causes OOPSes.
>>
>> The the world at large: it's increasingly apparent that no one (except
>> maybe the blackhats) has ever scrutinized the syscall auditing code.
>> This is two old severe bugs in the code that have probably been there
>> for a long time.
>>
>
> Yes, the audit code is a total mess.
>
>> The bad syscall nr paths are their own incomprehensible route
>> through the entry control flow.  Rearrange them to work just like
>> syscalls that return -ENOSYS.
>
> I have to admit... it sort of lends itself to a solution like this:
>
>         /* For the 64-bit case, analogous code for 32 bits */
>         movl $__NR_syscall_max+1,%ecx   # *Not* __NR_syscall_max
>         cmpq %rcx,%rax
>         cmovae %rcx,%rax
>         movq %r10,%rcx
>         call *sys_call_table(,%rax,8)
>
> ... and having an extra (invalid) system call slot in the syscall table
> beyond the end instead of branching off separately.
>
> (Note: we could use either cmova or cmovae, and either the 32- or 64-bit
> form... the reason why is left as an exercise to the reader.)

This is CVE-2014-4508, and it's probably worth fixing.

Is my patch good?  I can resent and cc stable if needed.

--Andy
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