linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/usercopy: Use memory range to be accessed for wraparound check

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:25:08 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Isaac J. Manjarres" <isaacm@...eaurora.org>, crecklin@...hat.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, psodagud@...eaurora.org,
        tsoni@...eaurora.org, eberman@...eaurora.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/usercopy: Use memory range to be accessed for
 wraparound check

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:54:13AM -0700, Isaac J. Manjarres wrote:
> Currently, when checking to see if accessing n bytes starting at
> address "ptr" will cause a wraparound in the memory addresses,
> the check in check_bogus_address() adds an extra byte, which is
> incorrect, as the range of addresses that will be accessed is
> [ptr, ptr + (n - 1)].
> 
> This can lead to incorrectly detecting a wraparound in the
> memory address, when trying to read 4 KB from memory that is
> mapped to the the last possible page in the virtual address
> space, when in fact, accessing that range of memory would not
> cause a wraparound to occur.
> 
> Use the memory range that will actually be accessed when
> considering if accessing a certain amount of bytes will cause
> the memory address to wrap around.
> 
> Fixes: f5509cc18daa ("mm: Hardened usercopy")
> Co-developed-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacm@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Ah, thanks for the reminder! (I got surprised by seeing my Ack in this
email -- next time please use "v2" or "RESEND" to jog my memory.) This
got lost last year; my bad.

Andrew, can you take this or should I send it directly to Linus?

-Kees

> ---
>  mm/usercopy.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
> index 2a09796..98e92486 100644
> --- a/mm/usercopy.c
> +++ b/mm/usercopy.c
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static inline void check_bogus_address(const unsigned long ptr, unsigned long n,
>  				       bool to_user)
>  {
>  	/* Reject if object wraps past end of memory. */
> -	if (ptr + n < ptr)
> +	if (ptr + (n - 1) < ptr)
>  		usercopy_abort("wrapped address", NULL, to_user, 0, ptr + n);
>  
>  	/* Reject if NULL or ZERO-allocation. */
> -- 
> The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
> a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
> 

-- 
Kees Cook