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Message-ID: <53423CC8-1A7E-4FD2-8F6B-83E88ABE30A5@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:44:38 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: sel4@...de.club
CC: keescook@...omium.org, Brandon Luo <sel4@...de.club>,
syzbot+98d3ceb7e01269e7bf4f@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
syzbot+155274e882dcbf9885df@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fortify: strnlen: Call fortify_panic() only if the number of bytes read is greater than maxlen
On July 24, 2023 3:48:57 PM PDT, sel4@...de.club wrote:
>From: Brandon Luo <sel4@...de.club>
>
>If the number of bytes read is p_size and p_size is less than maxlen,
>fortify_panic() will be called incorrectly. Only panic if the number of
>bytes read is greater than the minimum of p_size and maxlen since that is
> the argument to __real_strnlen().
>
>Reported-by: syzbot+98d3ceb7e01269e7bf4f@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000d8352e0600c0c804@google.com/
>
>Reported-by: syzbot+155274e882dcbf9885df@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000de4c2c0600c02b28@google.com/
Thanks for looking at these, but strnlen is working correctly. The problem was hfs's overread of a cast be32 when used with strscpy. See:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202307182147.A5B81B67D@keescook/
-Kees
>
>Signed-off-by: Brandon Luo <sel4@...de.club>
>---
> include/linux/fortify-string.h | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/include/linux/fortify-string.h b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
>index da51a83b2829..cde637f735fe 100644
>--- a/include/linux/fortify-string.h
>+++ b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
>@@ -176,8 +176,9 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE __kernel_size_t strnlen(const char * const POS p, __kernel_size
> }
>
> /* Do not check characters beyond the end of p. */
>- ret = __real_strnlen(p, maxlen < p_size ? maxlen : p_size);
>- if (p_size <= ret && maxlen != ret)
>+ maxlen = (maxlen < p_size) ? maxlen : p_size;
>+ ret = __real_strnlen(p, maxlen);
>+ if (maxlen < ret)
> fortify_panic(__func__);
> return ret;
> }
--
Kees Cook
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