linux-kernel - [RFC] fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:49:21 +1200
From:   Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
To:     tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC] fix race in drivers/char/random.c:get_reg()

get_reg() can be reentered on architectures with prioritized interrupts
(m68k in this case), causing f->reg_index to be incremented after the
range check. Out of bounds memory access past the pt_regs struct results.
This will go mostly undetected unless access is beyond end of memory.

Prevent the race by disabling interrupts in get_reg().

Tested on m68k (Atari Falcon, and ARAnyM emulator).

Kudos to Geert Uytterhoeven for helping to trace this race.

Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
---
 drivers/char/random.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 1ef2640..7d1799b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -1115,12 +1115,16 @@ static void add_interrupt_bench(cycles_t start)
 static __u32 get_reg(struct fast_pool *f, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	__u32 *ptr = (__u32 *) regs;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	if (regs == NULL)
 		return 0;
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 	if (f->reg_idx >= sizeof(struct pt_regs) / sizeof(__u32))
 		f->reg_idx = 0;
-	return *(ptr + f->reg_idx++);
+	ptr += f->reg_idx++;
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	return *ptr;
 }
 
 void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags)
-- 
1.7.0.4