Message-ID: <152a02a9-3a82-af69-0eac-8014494e76ec@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:16:36 +0530
From:   Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com>
To:     Pengfei Wang <wpengfeinudt@...il.com>
Cc:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH] coccicheck: add a test for repeat copy_from_user

On Tuesday 10 January 2017 02:32 PM, Pengfei Wang wrote:
>
>> 在 2017年1月10日，下午4:40，Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com> 写道：
>>
>> On Tuesday 10 January 2017 01:51 PM, Pengfei Wang wrote:
>>>
>>>> 在 2017年1月10日，上午1:05，Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com> 写道：
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 27 December 2016 11:51 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
>>>>> I totally dropped the ball on this.  Many thanks to Vaishali for
>>>>> resurrecting it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some changes are suggested below.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is usually a sign of a resized request. This adds a check for
>>>>>> potential races or confusions. The check isn't 100% accurate, so it
>>>>>> needs some manual review.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> scripts/coccinelle/tests/reusercopy.cocci | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
>>>>>> create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/tests/reusercopy.cocci
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/tests/reusercopy.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/tests/reusercopy.cocci
>>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>>> index 000000000000..53645de8ae95
>>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>>> +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/tests/reusercopy.cocci
>>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
>>>>>> +/// Recopying from the same user buffer frequently indicates a pattern of
>>>>>> +/// Reading a size header, allocating, and then re-reading an entire
>>>>>> +/// structure. If the structure's size is not re-validated, this can lead
>>>>>> +/// to structure or data size confusions.
>>>>>> +///
>>>>>> +// Confidence: Moderate
>>>>>> +// Copyright: (C) 2016 Kees Cook, Google. License: GPLv2.
>>>>>> +// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
>>>>>> +// Comments:
>>>>>> +// Options: -no_includes -include_headers
>>>>>
>>>>> The options could be: --no-include --include-headers
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, Coccinelle supports both, but it only officially supports the
>>>>> -- versions.
>>>>>
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +virtual report
>>>>>> +virtual org
>>>>>
>>>>> Add, the following for the *s:
>>>>>
>>>>> virtual context
>>>>>
>>>>> Then add the following rule:
>>>>>
>>>>> @ok@
>>>>> position p;
>>>>> expression src,dest;
>>>>> @@
>>>>>
>>>>> copy_from_user@p(&dest, src, sizeof(dest))
>>>>>
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +@..._twice@
>>>>>> +position p;
>>>>>
>>>>> Change this to:
>>>>>
>>>>> position p != ok.p;
>>>>>
>>>>>> +identifier src;
>>>>>> +expression dest1, dest2, size1, size2, offset;
>>>>>> +@@
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +*copy_from_user(dest1, src, size1)
>>>>>> + ... when != src = offset
>>>>>> +     when != src += offset
>>>>
>>>> Here, may be we should add few more lines from Pengfei's
>>>> script to avoid th potential FPs.
>>>>
>>>>> Add the following lines:
>>>>>
>>>>>    when != if (size2 > e1 || ...) { ... return ...; }
>>>>>    when != if (size2 > e1 || ...) { ... size2 = e2 ... }
>>>>>
>>>>> These changes drop cases where the last argument to copy_from_usr is the
>>>>> size of the first argument, which seems safe enough, and where there is a
>>>>> test on the size value that can either update it or abort the function.
>>>>> These changes only eliminate false positives, as far as I could tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it would be more convenient, I could just send the complete revised
>>>>> patch, or whatever seems convenient.
>>>>
>>>> I was also thinking that probably we should also add other user space memory API functions. May be get_user and strncpy_from_user. Although I'm not sure how common it is to find such patterns for both of these functions.
>>>
>>> I strongly recommend you adding get_user() API , which is used pervasively
>>> within the kernel just like copy_from user().
>>
>> Sure. I have changed regetuser-wang.cocci from Kees's RFC patches to
>> include everything in the pattern matching rule. I'll send that as well.
>>
>>> In many situations, there is a combination use, get_user() copies first then
>>> followed by a copy_from_user() copy. According to our investigation, this typical
>>> situation works by get_user() firstly copying a field of a specific struct to check,
>>> then copy_from_user() copies in the whole struct to use. Of course, the struct
>>> field is fetch twice.
>>
>> Do you mean that there is a problem when we have get_user() followed by copy_from_user()? Basically something like
>> this:
>>
>> get_user(..., src.arg) //where src.arg = field of a structure
>> ...
>> copy_from_user(..., src, ...) //where src is a whole structure
>>
>> If that is the case then we would need to have one more new script
>> or rule for such kind of combinational patterns. Disjunction can
>> probably give FPs.
>
> Yes, I’ve seen these cases when examining the source code. Actually, copying a field
> first and then copying the whole struct is very common in the kernel especially the driver.
> For example, when a struct (or a message as we call it) is variable length, the first copy is
> used to check its size field, and allocate a kernel buffer based on it, then the second copy is
> to copy the whole message also based on the size. There are also situations of the
> variable type messages.
>
> The reason that they use get_user() instead of copy_from_user() for the first copy is because
> get_user() is defined as a macro, which works faster than a function call that copy_from_user() does
> when copy simple data type such as char and int.

I see. If possible, can you point me to a code or actual bug
[reported by you or others] which has this kind of pattern
particularly?

I wrote a separate rule for the kind of pattern you have
described but I am not sure if this kind of code is suspicious.
Like you said, it is very common to use this pattern in drivers.
So may be suspicious one can have a specific pattern for this
combinational usage of get_user and copy_from_user.

Thanks.

>
> Regards
> Pengfei
>
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>> Regards
>>> Pengfei
>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> julia
>>>>>
>>>>>> +*copy_from_user@p(dest2, src, size2)
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +@...ipt:python depends on org@
>>>>>> +p << cfu_twice.p;
>>>>>> +@@
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +cocci.print_main("potentially dangerous second copy_from_user()",p)
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +@...ipt:python depends on report@
>>>>>> +p << cfu_twice.p;
>>>>>> +@@
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +coccilib.report.print_report(p[0],"potentially dangerous second copy_from_user()")
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 2.6.3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Kees Cook
>>>>>> Chrome OS & Brillo Security
>>>>>>
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