linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/6] device-mapper: Avoid double-fetch of version

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Date:   Thu,  1 Jun 2023 17:24:53 -0400
From:   Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
To:     Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc:     Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] device-mapper: Avoid double-fetch of version

The version is fetched once in check_version(), which then does some
validation and then overwrites the version in userspace with the API
version supported by the kernel.  copy_params() then fetches the version
from userspace *again*, and this time no validation is done.  The result
is that the kernel's version number is completely controllable by
userspace, provided that userspace can win a race condition.

Fix this flaw by not copying the version back to the kernel the second
time.  This is not exploitable as the version is not further used in the
kernel.  However, it could become a problem if future patches start
relying on the version field.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index da6ca26b51d0953df380582bb3a51c2ec22c27cb..fd46b249f6f856c49752063fc49d720e95df0525 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1873,12 +1873,13 @@ static ioctl_fn lookup_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, int *ioctl_flags)
  * As well as checking the version compatibility this always
  * copies the kernel interface version out.
  */
-static int check_version(unsigned int cmd, struct dm_ioctl __user *user)
+static int check_version(unsigned int cmd, struct dm_ioctl __user *user,
+			 struct dm_ioctl *kernel_params)
 {
-	uint32_t version[3];
 	int r = 0;
+	uint32_t *version = kernel_params->version;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(version, user->version, sizeof(version)))
+	if (copy_from_user(version, user->version, sizeof(user->version)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	if ((version[0] != DM_VERSION_MAJOR) ||
@@ -1922,7 +1923,10 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern
 	const size_t minimum_data_size = offsetof(struct dm_ioctl, data);
 	unsigned int noio_flag;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(param_kernel, user, minimum_data_size))
+	/* Version has been copied from userspace already, avoid TOCTOU */
+	if (copy_from_user((char *)param_kernel + sizeof(param_kernel->version),
+			   (char __user *)user + sizeof(param_kernel->version),
+			   minimum_data_size - sizeof(param_kernel->version)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
 	if (param_kernel->data_size < minimum_data_size) {
@@ -2034,7 +2038,7 @@ static int ctl_ioctl(struct file *file, uint command, struct dm_ioctl __user *us
 	 * Check the interface version passed in.  This also
 	 * writes out the kernel's interface version.
 	 */
-	r = check_version(cmd, user);
+	r = check_version(cmd, user, &param_kernel);
 	if (r)
 		return r;
 
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab