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Message-ID: <a1aa26f4-8c0a-5f8a-8460-6d61f167702d@fb.com>
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 10:06:17 -0700
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/23] bpf: handle the compat string in
 bpf_trace_copy_string better



On 5/27/20 9:39 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 07:26:30PM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
>>> --- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c~xxx
>>> +++ a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
>>> @@ -588,15 +588,22 @@ BPF_CALL_5(bpf_seq_printf, struct seq_fi
>>>    		}
>>>      		if (fmt[i] == 's') {
>>> +			void *unsafe_ptr;
>>> +
>>>    			/* try our best to copy */
>>>    			if (memcpy_cnt >= MAX_SEQ_PRINTF_MAX_MEMCPY) {
>>>    				err = -E2BIG;
>>>    				goto out;
>>>    			}
>>>    -			err = strncpy_from_unsafe(bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt],
>>> -						  (void *) (long) args[fmt_cnt],
>>> -						  MAX_SEQ_PRINTF_STR_LEN);
>>> +			unsafe_ptr = (void *)(long)args[fmt_cnt];
>>> +			if ((unsigned long)unsafe_ptr < TASK_SIZE) {
>>> +				err = strncpy_from_user_nofault(
>>> +					bufs->buf[memcpy_cnt], unsafe_ptr,
>>> +					MAX_SEQ_PRINTF_STR_LEN);
>>> +			} else {
>>> +				err = -EFAULT;
>>> +			}
>>
>> This probably not right.
>> The pointer stored at args[fmt_cnt] is a kernel pointer,
>> but it could be an invalid address and we do not want to fault.
>> Not sure whether it exists or not, we should use
>> strncpy_from_kernel_nofault()?
> 
> If you know it is a kernel pointer with this series it should be
> strncpy_from_kernel_nofault.  But even before the series it should have
> been strncpy_from_unsafe_strict.

The use of strncpy_from_unsafe() mimics old bpf_trace_printk() 
implementation which just changed to _strict version:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/18/1309

Agreed that we should change to strncpy_from_unsafe_strict().
I can submit a patch for this.

Thanks!