linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 11/19] x86, boot: Add checking for memcpy

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Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:36:03 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, lasse.collin@...aani.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/19] x86, boot: Add checking for memcpy

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>
> parse_elf is using local memcpy to move section to running position.
> That memcpy actually only support no overlapping case or when dest < src.
>
> Add checking in memcpy to find out the wrong case for future use, at
> that time we will need to have backward memcpy for it.
>
> Also add comments in parse_elf about the fact.

Seems like this would be better to just fix the memcpy to handle the overlap?

-Kees

>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> ---
> v2->v3:
>     Add a declaration for error() since its declaration is in misc.h.
>     But it's not included in compressed/string.c.
>
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c   | 14 +++++++-------
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h   |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
> index dd7ed8a..4b2cd0c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
> @@ -114,9 +114,6 @@
>  #undef memset
>  #define memzero(s, n)  memset((s), 0, (n))
>
> -
> -static void error(char *m);
> -
>  /*
>   * This is set up by the setup-routine at boot-time
>   */
> @@ -243,7 +240,7 @@ void __puthex(unsigned long value)
>         }
>  }
>
> -static void error(char *x)
> +void error(char *x)
>  {
>         error_putstr("\n\n");
>         error_putstr(x);
> @@ -378,9 +375,12 @@ static void parse_elf(void *output)
>  #else
>                         dest = (void *)(phdr->p_paddr);
>  #endif
> -                       memcpy(dest,
> -                              output + phdr->p_offset,
> -                              phdr->p_filesz);
> +                       /*
> +                        * simple version memcpy only can work when dest is
> +                        *   smaller than src or no overlapping.
> +                        * Here dest is smaller than src always.
> +                        */
> +                       memcpy(dest, output + phdr->p_offset, phdr->p_filesz);
>                         break;
>                 default: /* Ignore other PT_* */ break;
>                 }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> index 11736a6..39d0e9a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
> @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ void __puthex(unsigned long value);
>  #define error_putstr(__x)  __putstr(__x)
>  #define error_puthex(__x)  __puthex(__x)
>
> +void error(char *x);
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
>
>  #define debug_putstr(__x)  __putstr(__x)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> index 00e788b..3a935d0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  #include "../string.c"
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> -void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
> +void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
>  {
>         int d0, d1, d2;
>         asm volatile(
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
>         return dest;
>  }
>  #else
> -void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
> +void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
>  {
>         long d0, d1, d2;
>         asm volatile(
> @@ -30,6 +30,31 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
>  }
>  #endif
>
> +extern void error(char *x);
> +void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
> +{
> +       unsigned long start_dest, end_dest;
> +       unsigned long start_src, end_src;
> +       unsigned long max_start, min_end;
> +
> +       if (dest < src)
> +               return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
> +
> +       start_dest = (unsigned long)dest;
> +       end_dest = (unsigned long)dest + n;
> +       start_src = (unsigned long)src;
> +       end_src = (unsigned long)src + n;
> +       max_start = (start_dest > start_src) ?  start_dest : start_src;
> +       min_end = (end_dest < end_src) ? end_dest : end_src;
> +
> +       if (max_start >= min_end)
> +               return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
> +
> +       error("memcpy does not support overlapping with dest > src!\n");
> +
> +       return dest;
> +}
> +
>  void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n)
>  {
>         int i;
> --
> 2.5.0
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS & Brillo Security