netdev - [PATCH] net: socket: fix a missing-check bug

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Date:   Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:58:10 -0500
From:   Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
To:     Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
Cc:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]),
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] net: socket: fix a missing-check bug

In ethtool_ioctl(), the ioctl command is firstly obtained from the
user-space buffer 'compat_rxnfc' through get_user() and saved to 'ethcmd'.
Then, 'ethcmd' is checked to see whether it is necessary to pre-process the
ethool structure, because the structure ethtool_rxnfc is defined with
padding, as mentioned in the comment. If yes, a user-space buffer 'rxnfc'
is allocated through compat_alloc_user_space() and then the data in the
original buffer 'compat_rxnfc' is copied to 'rxnfc' through copy_in_user(),
including the ioctl command. It is worth noting that after this copy, there
is no check enforced on the copied ioctl command. That means it is possible
that 'rxnfc->cmd' is different from 'ethcmd', because a malicious user can
race to modify the ioctl command in 'compat_rxnfc' between these two
copies. Eventually, the ioctl command in 'rxnfc' will be used in
dev_ethtool(). This can cause undefined behavior of the kernel and
introduce potential security risk.

This patch avoids the above issue by rewriting 'rxnfc->cmd' using 'ethcmd'
after copy_in_user().

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
---
 net/socket.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 01f3f8f..c5f969c 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2879,6 +2879,8 @@ static int ethtool_ioctl(struct net *net, struct compat_ifreq __user *ifr32)
 		    copy_in_user(&rxnfc->rule_cnt, &compat_rxnfc->rule_cnt,
 				 sizeof(rxnfc->rule_cnt)))
 			return -EFAULT;
+
+		rxnfc->cmd = ethcmd;
 	}

 	ret = dev_ioctl(net, SIOCETHTOOL, &ifr, NULL);
-- 
2.7.4