linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uaccess: Add minimum bounds check on kernel buffer size

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Message-ID: <20230208054818.geaw2toki4mo32uc@senku>
Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2023 16:48:18 +1100
From:   Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uaccess: Add minimum bounds check on kernel buffer size

On 2023-02-03, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> While there is logic about the difference between ksize and usize,
> copy_struct_from_user() didn't check the size of the destination buffer
> (when it was known) against ksize. Add this check so there is an upper
> bounds check on the possible memset() call, otherwise lower bounds
> checks made by callers will trigger bounds warnings under -Warray-bounds.
> Seen under GCC 13:
> 
> In function 'copy_struct_from_user',
>     inlined from 'iommufd_fops_ioctl' at
> ../drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c:333:8:
> ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:59:33: warning: '__builtin_memset' offset [57, 4294967294] is out of the bounds [0, 56] of object 'buf' with type 'union ucmd_buffer' [-Warray-bounds=]
>    59 | #define __underlying_memset     __builtin_memset
>       |                                 ^
> ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:453:9: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_memset'
>   453 |         __underlying_memset(p, c, __fortify_size); \
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:461:25: note: in expansion of macro '__fortify_memset_chk'
>   461 | #define memset(p, c, s) __fortify_memset_chk(p, c, s, \
>       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../include/linux/uaccess.h:334:17: note: in expansion of macro 'memset'
>   334 |                 memset(dst + size, 0, rest);
>       |                 ^~~~~~
> ../drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c: In function 'iommufd_fops_ioctl':
> ../drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c:311:27: note: 'buf' declared here
>   311 |         union ucmd_buffer buf;
>       |                           ^~~

Makes sense.

Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>

> 
> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/uaccess.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
> index afb18f198843..ab9728138ad6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
> @@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ copy_struct_from_user(void *dst, size_t ksize, const void __user *src,
>  	size_t size = min(ksize, usize);
>  	size_t rest = max(ksize, usize) - size;
>  
> +	/* Double check if ksize is larger than a known object size. */
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ksize > __builtin_object_size(dst, 1)))
> +		return -E2BIG;
> +
>  	/* Deal with trailing bytes. */
>  	if (usize < ksize) {
>  		memset(dst + size, 0, rest);
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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