linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid undefined behavior in hardened usercopy check

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Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:47:50 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid undefined behavior in hardened usercopy check

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com> wrote:
> check_bogus_address() checked for pointer overflow using this expression,
> where 'ptr' has type 'const void *':
>
>         ptr + n < ptr
>
> Since pointer wraparound is undefined behavior, gcc at -O2 by default
> treats it like the following, which would not behave as intended:
>
>         (long)n < 0
>
> Fortunately, this doesn't currently happen for kernel code because kernel
> code is compiled with -fno-strict-overflow.  But the expression should be
> fixed anyway to use well-defined integer arithmetic, since it could be
> treated differently by different compilers in the future or could be
> reported by tools checking for undefined behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Cool, thanks. I'll get this into my tree.

-Kees

> ---
>  mm/usercopy.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
> index 8ebae91..82f81df 100644
> --- a/mm/usercopy.c
> +++ b/mm/usercopy.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static inline const char *check_kernel_text_object(const void *ptr,
>  static inline const char *check_bogus_address(const void *ptr, unsigned long n)
>  {
>         /* Reject if object wraps past end of memory. */
> -       if (ptr + n < ptr)
> +       if ((unsigned long)ptr + n < (unsigned long)ptr)
>                 return "<wrapped address>";
>
>         /* Reject if NULL or ZERO-allocation. */
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security