netdev - Re: Sending short raw packets using sendmsg() broke

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Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2016 11:33:36 -0500
From:	Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@....iki.fi>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Sending short raw packets using sendmsg() broke

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> > A quick search for ethhdr in drivers/net/ethernet shows, for
>> > instance,
>> > bnx2x_select_queue casting skb->data to an ethernet header. Reading
>> > nonsense in that particular function is quite safe and given the
>> > skbuff layout (skb_shared_info) code will never read beyond an
>> > allocated region. But that was just the first occurrence I found.
>> > efx_tso_check_protocol is another example.
>
> So would always allocating that much space be a good mitigation in
> general

Agreed. The existing packet allocation path does that by relying on
LL_RESERVED_SPACE on allocation, not only packet length. I won't
modify that. But I should perhaps zero up to hard_header_len on
variable length headers.

>  and perhaps then making the logic check validate() IFF
> CAP_SYS_RAWIO is not set.
>
> A user with CAP_SYS_RAWIO already has the power to control the device
> by banging registers so the check is not a security loss.

One concern is namespaces. I'll use capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO), not ns_capable.

Need to add an ax25_validate implemention and run some tests before I
send out the patch.

Thanks,

  Willem