linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH riscv64] kobject: fix WARNING in input_register

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Message-ID: <tencent_1755B769F77446DC1379E362296083BF0405@qq.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:10:37 +0800
From: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@...com>
To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc: eadavis@...com,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
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	syzbot+8e41bb0c055b209ebbf4@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH riscv64] kobject: fix WARNING in input_register_device

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:20:52 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 10:56:00, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:43:26AM +0800, Edward Adam Davis wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 12:25:10 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 07:37:56PM +0800, Edward Adam Davis wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 10:56:00, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > The input_add_uevent_modalias_var()->input_print_modalias() will add 1684 bytes
> > > > > > of data to env, which will result in insufficient memory allocated to the buf
> > > > > > members of env.
> > > > >
> > > > > What is "env"?  And can you wrap your lines at 72 columns please?
> > > > env is an instance of struct kobj_uevent_env.
> > >
> > > Ok, be specific please in your changelog text, otherwise we can't really
> > > understand what is happening.
> > >
> > > > > > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+8e41bb0c055b209ebbf4@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@...com>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >  include/linux/kobject.h | 2 +-
> > > > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
> > > > > > index c30affcc43b4..74b37b6459cd 100644
> > > > > > --- a/include/linux/kobject.h
> > > > > > +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
> > > > > > @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  #define UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN		256
> > > > > >  #define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP			64	/* number of env pointers */
> > > > > > -#define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE		2048	/* buffer for the variables */
> > > > > > +#define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE		2560	/* buffer for the variables */
> > > > >
> > > > > That's an odd number, why that?  Why not just a page?  What happens if
> > > > > some other path wants more?
> > > > An increase of 512 bytes is sufficient for the current issue. Do not consider
> > > > the problem of hypothetical existence.
> > >
> > > Why is this 512 bytes sufficient now?  What changed to cause this?
> > There is the following code in input_print_modalias():
> >
> > drivers/input/input.c
> >    1         len += input_print_modalias_bits(buf + len, size - len,
> > 1403                                 'k', id->keybit, KEY_MIN_INTERESTING, KEY_MAX);
> > This code will add up to 2608 bytes of data to env at most.
> > (KEY_MAX - KEY_MIN_INTERESTING) * 4 = (256 * 3 - 1 - 113 ) * 4 = (765 - 113) * 4 = 652 * 4 = 2608 bytes。
> > Note: In the expression, 4 represents 3 bytes of hexadecimal data and 1 byte of comma.
> 
> So your change above is wrong and will not work for the max size?
Yes.
> 
> Why not restrict the modalias here to fit instead of overflowing?  Odds
> are we should be checking this properly no matter what the value is
> changed to, right?
Right.
It may be necessary to deepen our understanding of this piece of code before
fixing this issue internally.
> 
> > include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > 188 #define KEY_MUTE                113
> > 807 #define KEY_MIN_INTERESTING     KEY_MUTE
> > 808 #define KEY_MAX                 0x2ff
> > During my actual testing process, I found that a total of 1684 bytes were
> > contributed in input_print_modalias().
> > >
> > > And how can we detect this automatically in the future?  Shouldn't we
> > > just be truncating the buffer instead of having an overflow?
> > >
> > > > > And what's causing the input stack to have so many variables all of a
> > > > > sudden, what changed to cause this?  Is this a bugfix for a specific
> > > > > commit that needs to be backported to older kernels?  Why did this
> > > > > buffer size all of a sudden be too small?
> > > > The result of my analysis is that several members of struct input_dev are too
> > > > large, such as its member keybit.
> > >
> > > And when did that change?  What commit id?  What prevents it from
> > > growing again and us needing to change this again?
> > The code that caused this issue has been introduced for a long time, and it is
> > speculated that it was due to the fact that the warning in add_uevent_var() was
> > returned directly to ENOMEM without being taken seriously.
> >
> > lib/kobject_uevent.c
> >   2         if (len >= (sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen)) {
> >   1                 WARN(1, KERN_ERR "add_uevent_var: buffer size too small\n");
> > 672                 return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Odd line numbers?
> 
> Anyway, we should get rid of the WARN() as that will cause crashes, and
> just handle it properly there.
> 
> 
> >   1         }
> >
> > I believe that this issue was introduced by:
> > 7eff2e7a8b65 - Driver core: change add_ueventvar to use a struct.
> 
> In 2007?  And never been actually hit since then?  So is this a real
> issue? :)
Yes. But as I mentioned earlier, in add_uevent_var(), it will exit directly after
a warning, so this issue has not been given enough attention, perhaps it has
happened many times.

thanks,
edward.