lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:   Tue, 8 Aug 2023 13:26:24 -0600
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:     Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfio: align capability structures

On Tue,  8 Aug 2023 10:42:16 -0400
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com> wrote:

> The VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO, VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO, and
> VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO ioctls fill in an info struct followed by capability
> structs:
> 
>   +------+---------+---------+-----+
>   | info | caps[0] | caps[1] | ... |
>   +------+---------+---------+-----+
> 
> Both the info and capability struct sizes are not always multiples of
> sizeof(u64), leaving u64 fields in later capability structs misaligned.
> 
> Userspace applications currently need to handle misalignment manually in
> order to support CPU architectures and programming languages with strict
> alignment requirements.
> 
> Make life easier for userspace by ensuring alignment in the kernel. This
> is done by padding info struct definitions and by copying out zeroes
> after capability structs that are not aligned.
> 
> The new layout is as follows:
> 
>   +------+---------+---+---------+-----+
>   | info | caps[0] | 0 | caps[1] | ... |
>   +------+---------+---+---------+-----+
> 
> In this example caps[0] has a size that is not multiples of sizeof(u64),
> so zero padding is added to align the subsequent structure.
> 
> Adding zero padding between structs does not break the uapi. The memory
> layout is specified by the info.cap_offset and caps[i].next fields
> filled in by the kernel. Applications use these field values to locate
> structs and are therefore unaffected by the addition of zero padding.
> 
> Note that code that copies out info structs with padding is updated to
> always zero the struct and copy out as many bytes as userspace
> requested. This makes the code shorter and avoids potential information
> leaks by ensuring padding is initialized.
> 
> Originally-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Simplify padding approach as suggested by Alex
> 
>  include/uapi/linux/vfio.h        |  2 ++
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c | 11 ++---------
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c  | 11 ++---------
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c         |  6 ++++++
>  4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> index 20c804bdc09c..8fe85f5c7b61 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vfio.h
> @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ struct vfio_device_info {
>  	__u32	num_regions;	/* Max region index + 1 */
>  	__u32	num_irqs;	/* Max IRQ index + 1 */
>  	__u32   cap_offset;	/* Offset within info struct of first cap */
> +	__u32   pad;
>  };
>  #define VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO		_IO(VFIO_TYPE, VFIO_BASE + 7)
>  
> @@ -1304,6 +1305,7 @@ struct vfio_iommu_type1_info {
>  #define VFIO_IOMMU_INFO_CAPS	(1 << 1)	/* Info supports caps */
>  	__u64	iova_pgsizes;	/* Bitmap of supported page sizes */
>  	__u32   cap_offset;	/* Offset within info struct of first cap */
> +	__u32   pad;
>  };
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> index 20d7b69ea6ff..e2ba2a350f6c 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_core.c
> @@ -920,24 +920,17 @@ static int vfio_pci_ioctl_get_info(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev,
>  				   struct vfio_device_info __user *arg)
>  {
>  	unsigned long minsz = offsetofend(struct vfio_device_info, num_irqs);
> -	struct vfio_device_info info;
> +	struct vfio_device_info info = {};
>  	struct vfio_info_cap caps = { .buf = NULL, .size = 0 };
> -	unsigned long capsz;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	/* For backward compatibility, cannot require this */
> -	capsz = offsetofend(struct vfio_iommu_type1_info, cap_offset);
> -
>  	if (copy_from_user(&info, arg, minsz))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	if (info.argsz < minsz)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	if (info.argsz >= capsz) {
> -		minsz = capsz;
> -		info.cap_offset = 0;
> -	}
> +	minsz = min_t(size_t, info.argsz, sizeof(info));

Thanks for catching these, LGTM.  I'll see if anyone else offers a
review in the next couple days and otherwise apply this and
20230801155352.1391945-1-stefanha@...hat.com this week.  Thanks,

Alex

>  
>  	info.flags = VFIO_DEVICE_FLAGS_PCI;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index ebe0ad31d0b0..f812c475a626 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -2762,27 +2762,20 @@ static int vfio_iommu_dma_avail_build_caps(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>  static int vfio_iommu_type1_get_info(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>  				     unsigned long arg)
>  {
> -	struct vfio_iommu_type1_info info;
> +	struct vfio_iommu_type1_info info = {};
>  	unsigned long minsz;
>  	struct vfio_info_cap caps = { .buf = NULL, .size = 0 };
> -	unsigned long capsz;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	minsz = offsetofend(struct vfio_iommu_type1_info, iova_pgsizes);
>  
> -	/* For backward compatibility, cannot require this */
> -	capsz = offsetofend(struct vfio_iommu_type1_info, cap_offset);
> -
>  	if (copy_from_user(&info, (void __user *)arg, minsz))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
>  	if (info.argsz < minsz)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	if (info.argsz >= capsz) {
> -		minsz = capsz;
> -		info.cap_offset = 0; /* output, no-recopy necessary */
> -	}
> +	minsz = min_t(size_t, info.argsz, sizeof(info));
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&iommu->lock);
>  	info.flags = VFIO_IOMMU_INFO_PGSIZES;
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
> index f0ca33b2e1df..2850478301d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c
> @@ -1172,6 +1172,9 @@ struct vfio_info_cap_header *vfio_info_cap_add(struct vfio_info_cap *caps,
>  	void *buf;
>  	struct vfio_info_cap_header *header, *tmp;
>  
> +	/* Ensure that the next capability struct will be aligned */
> +	size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(u64));
> +
>  	buf = krealloc(caps->buf, caps->size + size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buf) {
>  		kfree(caps->buf);
> @@ -1205,6 +1208,9 @@ void vfio_info_cap_shift(struct vfio_info_cap *caps, size_t offset)
>  	struct vfio_info_cap_header *tmp;
>  	void *buf = (void *)caps->buf;
>  
> +	/* Capability structs should start with proper alignment */
> +	WARN_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(offset, sizeof(u64)));
> +
>  	for (tmp = buf; tmp->next; tmp = buf + tmp->next - offset)
>  		tmp->next += offset;
>  }

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ