linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched: fix a potential double-fetch bug in sched_copy

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Date:   Tue, 25 Dec 2018 16:16:47 -0600
From:   Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
To:     kjlu@....edu
Cc:     pakki001@....edu, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched: fix a potential double-fetch bug in sched_copy_attr

"uattr->size" is copied in from user space and checked. However, it is
copied in again after the security check. A malicious user may race to
change it. The fix checks if uattr->size is ever changed after the
check.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 6fedf3a98581..0a55bdce9a42 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4447,7 +4447,7 @@ do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy, struct sched_param __user *param)
  */
 static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *attr)
 {
-	u32 size;
+	u32 size, size_cp;
 	int ret;
 
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uattr, SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0))
@@ -4460,15 +4460,17 @@ static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *a
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	size_cp = size;
+
 	/* Bail out on silly large: */
 	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
 		goto err_size;
 
 	/* ABI compatibility quirk: */
 	if (!size)
-		size = SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0;
+		size_cp = SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0;
 
-	if (size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0)
+	else if (size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0)
 		goto err_size;
 
 	/*
@@ -4483,7 +4485,7 @@ static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *a
 		unsigned char val;
 
 		addr = (void __user *)uattr + sizeof(*attr);
-		end  = (void __user *)uattr + size;
+		end  = (void __user *)uattr + size_cp;
 
 		for (; addr < end; addr++) {
 			ret = get_user(val, addr);
@@ -4492,13 +4494,17 @@ static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *a
 			if (val)
 				goto err_size;
 		}
-		size = sizeof(*attr);
+		size_cp = sizeof(*attr);
 	}
 
-	ret = copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size);
+	ret = copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size_cp);
 	if (ret)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	/* Sanity check if size was changed in user space */
+	if (attr->size != size)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	/*
 	 * XXX: Do we want to be lenient like existing syscalls; or do we want
 	 * to be strict and return an error on out-of-bounds values?
-- 
2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)