netdev - Re: [Security] TIPC security issues

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Message-ID: <4CC9C4B0.50404@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:45:04 -0700
From:	Andy Grover <andy.grover@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, drosenberg@...curity.com,
	security@...nel.org, allan.stephens@...driver.com,
	RDS Devel <rds-devel@....oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [Security] TIPC security issues

On 10/28/2010 08:32 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Heh. We apparently have _another_ iovec overflow in networking. This time rds.
>
> Reported by Thomas Pollet<thomas.pollet@...il.com>: look at
> net/rds/rdma.c around line 490. It doesn't use the regular iovec code,
> instead it cooks its own, and has a few problems with overflow.
>
> It gathers the number of pages into an "unsigned int", and for each
> entry in its own rds_iovec it will check that the size is<  UINT_MAX,
> and then generate the number of pages for that entry. With the whole
> "unaligned address adds one" logic, it means that each entry can get
> (UINT_MAX>>  PAGE_SHIFT)+1 pages.

FWIW both the signed issue and not checking the iovec changed were 
correct in 2.6.36, and only added in ff87e97.

> And how many entries can we have? Apparently that is capped to
> UINT_MAX too. So add all those up, and they can easily overflow the
> unsigned int page counter.
>
> So this time fixing verify_iovec() doesn't help, because rds just
> cooks its own, and this is using a totally different interface: it
> seems to hook into sendmsg, but it looks like it uses the ancillary
> data objects and passes in its own magical iovec rather than use any
> "normal" iovec thing. I don't know the code, I may be totally off.

Yes that's right, it's to map a memory region that will be the target of 
an RDMA operation. I don't know why struct rds_iovec was used instead of 
struct iovec, but I think we're stuck, since it's part of our socket API.

I'll send DaveM patches to fix those two immediately-identified problems 
today, and we'll take a good long look at the rest of the code for 
further issues.

Regards -- Andy
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