linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clone3: validate stack arguments

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Message-ID: <20191101151014.75jfcdc3hrwt6ssv@wittgenstein>
Date:   Fri, 1 Nov 2019 16:10:14 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@....com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>, nd <nd@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone3: validate stack arguments

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:57:10PM +0000, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 31/10/2019 11:36, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> > index 99335e1f4a27..25b4fa00bad1 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> > @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@
> >   *               sent when the child exits.
> >   * @stack:       Specify the location of the stack for the
> >   *               child process.
> > + *               Note, @stack is expected to point to the
> > + *               lowest address. The stack direction will be
> > + *               determined by the kernel and set up
> > + *               appropriately based on @stack_size.
> >   * @stack_size:  The size of the stack for the child process.
> >   * @tls:         If CLONE_SETTLS is set, the tls descriptor
> >   *               is set to tls.
> > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > index bcdf53125210..55af6931c6ec 100644
> > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -2561,7 +2561,35 @@ noinline static int copy_clone_args_from_user(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs,
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static bool clone3_args_valid(const struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
> > +/**
> > + * clone3_stack_valid - check and prepare stack
> > + * @kargs: kernel clone args
> > + *
> > + * Verify that the stack arguments userspace gave us are sane.
> > + * In addition, set the stack direction for userspace since it's easy for us to
> > + * determine.
> > + */
> > +static inline bool clone3_stack_valid(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
> > +{
> > +	if (kargs->stack == 0) {
> > +		if (kargs->stack_size > 0)
> > +			return false;
> > +	} else {
> > +		if (kargs->stack_size == 0)
> > +			return false;
> > +
> > +		if (!access_ok((void __user *)kargs->stack, kargs->stack_size))
> > +			return false;
> > +
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP) && !defined(CONFIG_IA64)
> > +		kargs->stack += kargs->stack_size;
> > +#endif
> > +	}
> 
> from the description it is not clear whose
> responsibility it is to guarantee the alignment
> of sp on entry.

Userspace.

> 
> i think 0 stack size may work if signals are
> blocked and then prohibiting it might not be
> the right thing.

Note that stack size 0 is allowed:

struct clone_args args = {
	.exit_signal = SIGCHLD,
};

clone3(&args, sizeof(args));

will just work fine.

> 
> it's not clear how libc should deal with v5.3
> kernels which don't have the stack+=stack_size
> logic.

stable is already Cced and the change will be backported to v5.3.
Nearly all distros track pull in stable updates.

Florian, thoughts on this?

Christian