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Message-ID: <CALCETrW5-_JFO_9F9bt2F1s5N_dseffYxCTX_SHJL39UcMyrFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:30:33 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/x86: fix out-of-bounds in get_wchan()

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com> wrote:
>>> > 2015-09-28 12:00 GMT+03:00 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>:
>>> >>         stack = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p);
>>> >> -       if (p->thread.sp < stack || p->thread.sp >= stack+THREAD_SIZE)
>>> >> +       /* The task can be already running at this point, so tread carefully. */
>>> >> +       fp = READ_ONCE(p->thread.sp);
>>> >> +       if (fp < stack || fp >= stack+THREAD_SIZE)
>>> >
>>> > Since we deference fp, it should be "|| fp + sizeof(u64) >= stack + THREAD_SIZE"
>>>
>>> Good point.
>>> I guess it should be "|| fp + sizeof(u64) > stack + THREAD_SIZE",
>>> because == is OK if we add 8.
>>>
>>
>> This whole mess with +8 and -16 and whatever is just crap. And all of
>> it completely undocumented. Proper version below.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>         tglx
>>
>> 8<-------------------------------
>>
>> Subject: x86/process: Add proper bound checks in 64bit get_wchan()
>> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:16:52 +0200
>>
>> Dmitry Vyukov reported the following using trinity and the memory
>> error detector AddressSanitizer
>> (https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel).
>>
>> [ 124.575597] ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on
>> address ffff88002e280000
>> [ 124.576801] ffff88002e280000 is located 131938492886538 bytes to
>> the left of 28857600-byte region [ffffffff81282e0a, ffffffff82e0830a)
>> [ 124.578633] Accessed by thread T10915:
>> [ 124.579295] inlined in describe_heap_address
>> ./arch/x86/mm/asan/report.c:164
>> [ 124.579295] #0 ffffffff810dd277 in asan_report_error
>> ./arch/x86/mm/asan/report.c:278
>> [ 124.580137] #1 ffffffff810dc6a0 in asan_check_region
>> ./arch/x86/mm/asan/asan.c:37
>> [ 124.581050] #2 ffffffff810dd423 in __tsan_read8 ??:0
>> [ 124.581893] #3 ffffffff8107c093 in get_wchan
>> ./arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:444
>>
>> The address checks in the 64bit implementation of get_wchan() are
>> wrong in several ways:
>>
>>  - The lower bound of the stack is not the start of the stack
>>    page. It's the start of the stack page plus sizeof (struct
>>    thread_info)
>>
>>  - The upper bound must be top of stack minus 2 * sizeof(unsigned
>>    long). This is required because the stack pointer points at the
>>    frame pointer. The layout on the stack is: ... IP FP ... IP FP.
>>
>> Fix the bound checks and get rid of the mix of numeric constants, u64
>> and unsigned long. Making all unsigned long allows us to use the same
>> function for 32bit as well.
>>
>> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
>> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
>> Based-on-patch-from: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@...t.med.uni-muenchen.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
>> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
>> Cc: x86@...nel.org
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> Index: tip/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
>> +++ tip/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
>> @@ -501,24 +501,47 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(set_personality_ia32);
>>
>>  unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p)
>>  {
>> -       unsigned long stack;
>> -       u64 fp, ip;
>> +       unsigned long start, bottom, top, sp, fp, ip;
>>         int count = 0;
>>
>>         if (!p || p == current || p->state == TASK_RUNNING)
>>                 return 0;
>> -       stack = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p);
>> -       if (p->thread.sp < stack || p->thread.sp >= stack+THREAD_SIZE)
>> +
>> +       start = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(p);
>> +       if (!start)
>>                 return 0;
>> -       fp = *(u64 *)(p->thread.sp);
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * Layout of the stack page:
>> +        *
>> +        * ----------- top = start = THREAD_SIZE - sizeof(unsigned long)
>> +        * stack
>
> There's TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING in here, too.  Arguably the
> padding is still in bounds, though.  Also, I think you mean "start +",
> not "start =".
>
>> +        * ----------- bottom = start + sizeof(thread_info)
>> +        * thread_info
>> +        * ----------- start
>> +        *
>> +        * The tasks stack pointer points at the location where the
>> +        * framepointer is stored. The data on the stack is:
>> +        * ... IP FP ... IP FP
>> +        *
>> +        * We need to read FP and IP, so we need to adjust the upper
>> +        * bound by another unsigned long.
>> +        */
>> +       top = start + THREAD_SIZE - 2 * sizeof(unsigned long);
>> +       bottom = start + sizeof(struct thread_info);
>> +
>> +       sp = p->thread.sp;
>> +       if (sp < bottom || sp > top)
>> +               return 0;
>> +
>> +       fp = *(unsigned long *)sp;
>>         do {
>> -               if (fp < (unsigned long)stack ||
>> -                   fp >= (unsigned long)stack+THREAD_SIZE)
>> +               if (fp < bottom || fp > top)
>>                         return 0;
>> -               ip = *(u64 *)(fp+8);
>> +               ip = *(unsigned long *)(fp + sizeof(unsigned long));
>>                 if (!in_sched_functions(ip))
>>                         return ip;
>> -               fp = *(u64 *)fp;
>> +               fp = *(unsigned long *)fp;
>>         } while (count++ < 16);
>
> I'm be vaguely amazed if this isn't an exploitable info leak even
> without the out of bounds thing.  Can we really not find a way to do
> this without walking the stack?
>
> The bounds checking looks okay, though.

Also, I like Borislav's READ_ONCE suggestion.  Let's avoid TOCTOU due
to optimization.

Re: a CVE: if anyone wants a CVE, ask oss-security.  It's unclear to
me exactly how one might exploit this.

--Andy
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