linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ppp: copy userspace array safely

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Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2023 20:09:43 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Philipp Stanner <pstanner@...hat.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/ppp: copy userspace array safely

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 08:19:15PM +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> In ppp_generic.c memdup_user() is utilized to copy a userspace array.
> This is done without an overflow check.
> 
> Use the new wrapper memdup_array_user() to copy the array more safely.

>  	fprog.len = uprog->len;
> -	fprog.filter = memdup_user(uprog->filter,
> -				   uprog->len * sizeof(struct sock_filter));
> +	fprog.filter = memdup_array_user(uprog->filter,
> +					 uprog->len, sizeof(struct sock_filter));

Far be it from me to discourage security theat^Whardening, but

struct sock_fprog {     /* Required for SO_ATTACH_FILTER. */
        unsigned short          len;    /* Number of filter blocks */
	struct sock_filter __user *filter;
};

struct sock_filter {    /* Filter block */
        __u16   code;   /* Actual filter code */
        __u8    jt;     /* Jump true */
        __u8    jf;     /* Jump false */
        __u32   k;      /* Generic multiuse field */
};

so you might want to mention that overflow in question would have to be
in multiplying an untrusted 16bit value by 8...