linux-kernel - Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches

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Message-ID: <9519edb7-456a-a2fa-659e-3e5a1ff89466@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:17:57 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@...nel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as
 usercopy caches

On 11. 01. 18, 3:02, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>
> 
> Mark the kmalloc slab caches as entirely whitelisted. These caches
> are frequently used to fulfill kernel allocations that contain data
> to be copied to/from userspace. Internal-only uses are also common,
> but are scattered in the kernel. For now, mark all the kmalloc caches
> as whitelisted.
> 
> This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
> whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
> understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
> mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>
> [kees: merged in moved kmalloc hunks, adjust commit log]
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> ---
>  mm/slab.c        |  3 ++-
>  mm/slab.h        |  3 ++-
>  mm/slab_common.c | 10 ++++++----
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index b9b0df620bb9..dd367fe17a4e 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
...
> @@ -1098,7 +1099,8 @@ void __init setup_kmalloc_cache_index_table(void)
>  static void __init new_kmalloc_cache(int idx, slab_flags_t flags)
>  {
>  	kmalloc_caches[idx] = create_kmalloc_cache(kmalloc_info[idx].name,
> -					kmalloc_info[idx].size, flags);
> +					kmalloc_info[idx].size, flags, 0,
> +					kmalloc_info[idx].size);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -1139,7 +1141,7 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(slab_flags_t flags)
>  
>  			BUG_ON(!n);
>  			kmalloc_dma_caches[i] = create_kmalloc_cache(n,
> -				size, SLAB_CACHE_DMA | flags);
> +				size, SLAB_CACHE_DMA | flags, 0, 0);

Hi,

was there any (undocumented) reason NOT to mark DMA caches as usercopy?

We are seeing this on s390x:

> usercopy: Kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to SLUB object
'dma-kmalloc-1k' (offset 0, size 11)!
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:99!

See:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156053

This indeed fixes it:
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -1290,7 +1290,8 @@ void __init create_kmalloc_caches(slab_flags_t flags)
                        kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_DMA][i] =
create_kmalloc_cache(
                                kmalloc_info[i].name[KMALLOC_DMA],
                                kmalloc_info[i].size,
-                               SLAB_CACHE_DMA | flags, 0, 0);
+                               SLAB_CACHE_DMA | flags, 0,
+                               kmalloc_info[i].size);
                }
        }
 #endif


thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs