linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}

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Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 19:07:50 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
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        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}_user
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:19:22AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> +/*
> + * "memset(p, 0, size)" but for user space buffers. Caller must have already
> + * checked access_ok(p, size).
> + */
> +static int __memzero_user(void __user *p, size_t s)
> +{
> +	const char zeros[BUFFER_SIZE] = {};
> +	while (s > 0) {
> +		size_t n = min(s, sizeof(zeros));
> +
> +		if (__copy_to_user(p, zeros, n))
> +			return -EFAULT;
> +
> +		p += n;
> +		s -= n;
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}

That's called clear_user().

> +int copy_struct_to_user(void __user *dst, size_t usize,
> +			const void *src, size_t ksize)
> +{
> +	size_t size = min(ksize, usize);
> +	size_t rest = abs(ksize - usize);
> +
> +	if (unlikely(usize > PAGE_SIZE))
> +		return -EFAULT;

Why?

> +	} else if (usize > ksize) {
> +		if (__memzero_user(dst + size, rest))
> +			return -EFAULT;
> +	}
> +	/* Copy the interoperable parts of the struct. */
> +	if (__copy_to_user(dst, src, size))
> +		return -EFAULT;

Why not simply clear_user() and copy_to_user()?

> +int copy_struct_from_user(void *dst, size_t ksize,
> +			  const void __user *src, size_t usize)
> +{
> +	size_t size = min(ksize, usize);
> +	size_t rest = abs(ksize - usize);

Cute, but... you would be just as well without that 'rest' thing.

> +
> +	if (unlikely(usize > PAGE_SIZE))
> +		return -EFAULT;

Again, why?

> +	if (unlikely(!access_ok(src, usize)))
> +		return -EFAULT;

Why not simply copy_from_user() here?

> +	/* Deal with trailing bytes. */
> +	if (usize < ksize)
> +		memset(dst + size, 0, rest);
> +	else if (usize > ksize) {
> +		const void __user *addr = src + size;
> +		char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE] = {};
> +
> +		while (rest > 0) {
> +			size_t bufsize = min(rest, sizeof(buffer));
> +
> +			if (__copy_from_user(buffer, addr, bufsize))
> +				return -EFAULT;
> +			if (memchr_inv(buffer, 0, bufsize))
> +				return -E2BIG;

Frankly, that looks like a candidate for is_all_zeroes_user().
With the loop like above serving as a dumb default.  And on
badly alighed address it _will_ be dumb.  Probably too much
so - something like
	if ((unsigned long)addr & 1) {
		u8 v;
		if (get_user(v, (__u8 __user *)addr))
			return -EFAULT;
		if (v)
			return -E2BIG;
		addr++;
	}
	if ((unsigned long)addr & 2) {
		u16 v;
		if (get_user(v, (__u16 __user *)addr))
			return -EFAULT;
		if (v)
			return -E2BIG;
		addr +=2;
	}
	if ((unsigned long)addr & 4) {
		u32 v;
		if (get_user(v, (__u32 __user *)addr))
			return -EFAULT;
		if (v)
			return -E2BIG;
	}
	<read the rest like you currently do>
would be saner, and things like x86 could trivially add an
asm variant - it's not hard.  Incidentally, memchr_inv() is
an overkill in this case...