netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next-2.6] ethtool: Compat handling for struct ethtool

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Message-ID: <1298938233.2569.30.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:10:33 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Santwona Behera <santwona.behera@....com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next-2.6] ethtool: Compat handling for struct
 ethtool_rxnfc

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:51 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:55:41PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether more checks on rule_cnt are required for security
> > or whether compat_alloc_user_space() and copy_in_user() can be relied on
> > to limit any buffer overrun to the user process's own memory.  It looks
> > like this is safe on x86.
> 
> I'm less familiar with the compat world, but it looks sane to me. All the
> copy_in_user() calls are calculated based on structure sizes, right? Except
> for the rule_cnt one, which was already bounds-checked for output.
[...]

No, because the native ioctl implementation writes out the actual number
of rules to rxnfc->rule_cnt and we then read that back into rule_cnt
before performing the copy from rxnfc->rule_locs to
compat_rxnfc->rule_locs.  So userland can race with us and modify that
value.

We could use the original value of rule_cnt to calculate the size to
copy; it would just mean copying more than we need to most of the time.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

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