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vfs.git pile 11 - iov_iter/hardening

GIT PULL Al Viro 2 participants 2 messages Jul 8, 2017 VFS

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iov_iter/uaccess/hardening pile. For one thing, it trims the
inline part of copy_to_user/copy_from_user to the minimum that *does* need to be inlined - object size checks, basically. For another, it sanitizes the checks for iov_iter primitives. There are 4 groups of checks: access_ok(), might_fault(), object size and KASAN.
* access_ok() had been verified by whoever had set the iov_iter
up. However, that has happened in a function far away, so proving that there's no path to actual copying bypassing those checks is hard and proving that iov_iter has not been buggered in the meanwhile is also not pleasant. So we want those redone in actual copyin/copyout.
* might_fault() is better off consolidated - we know whether
it needs to be checked as soon as we enter iov_iter primitive and observe the iov_iter flavour. No need to wait until the copyin/copyout. The call chains are short enough to make sure we won't miss anything - in fact, it's more robust that way, since there are cases where we do e.g. forced fault-in before getting to copyin/copyout. It's not quite what we need to check (in particular, combination of iovec-backed and set_fs(KERNEL_DS) is almost certainly a bug, not a cause to skip checks), but that's for later series. For now let's keep might_fault().
* KASAN checks belong in copyin/copyout - at the same level
where other iov_iter flavours would've hit them in memcpy().
* object size checks should apply to *all* iov_iter flavours,
not just iovec-backed ones.
There are two groups of primitives - one gets the kernel object
described as pointer + size (copy_to_iter(), etc.) while another gets it as page + offset + size (copy_page_to_iter(), etc.)
For the first group the checks are best done where we actually
have a chance to find the object size. In other words, those belong in inline wrappers in uio.h, before calling into iov_iter.c. Same kind as we have for inlined part of copy_to_user().
For the second group there is no object to look at - offset in
page is just a number, it bears no type information. So we do them in the common helper called by iov_iter.c primitives of that kind. All it currently does is checking that we are not trying to access outside of the compound page; eventually we might want to add some sanity checks on the page involved.

So the things we need in copyin/copyout part of iov_iter.c
do not quite match anything in uaccess.h (we want no zeroing, we *do* want access_ok() and KASAN and we want no might_fault() or object size checks done on that level). OTOH, these needs are simple enough to provide a couple of helpers (static in iov_iter.c) doing just what we need...

Trivial conflicts with libnvdimm; this stuff will get some
followups, but again, that's for another series.

The following changes since commit 2ea659a9ef488125eb46da6eb571de5eae5c43f6:

Linux 4.12-rc1 (2017-05-13 13:19:49 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git uaccess-work.iov_iter

for you to fetch changes up to 09fc68dc66f7597bdc8898c991609a48f061bed5:

iov_iter: saner checks on copyin/copyout (2017-07-07 05:18:09 -0400)

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Al Viro (5):
copy_{from,to}_user(): move kasan checks and might_fault() out-of-line copy_{to,from}_user(): consolidate object size checks iov_iter/hardening: move object size checks to inlined part
iov_iter: sanity checks for copy to/from page primitives
iov_iter: saner checks on copyin/copyout

 include/linux/thread_info.h | 27 +++++++++++++
 include/linux/uaccess.h     | 44 +++++----------------
 include/linux/uio.h         | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 lib/iov_iter.c              | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 lib/usercopy.c              | 10 ++++-
 5 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
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Trivial conflicts with libnvdimm; this stuff will get some
followups, but again, that's for another series.

Gaah. Yeah, I guess I could have done the trivial ugly merge that just took the new copy_from_iter_flushcache() as-is, and didn't match it up with all the new iov_iter hardening.

Except I decided I don't want that, and want to do a proper merge instead.

Which made the trivial merge something that actually changed that copy_from_iter_flushcache() logic, and maybe I screwed it up in the process.

It builds, and it looks right to me, but you and Dan should really check out the end result.

Particularly so for the CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE logic, which is where this differs from the other cases, and which I changed to make the #ifdef less noticeable.

I did try both a i386 and a x86-64 build of the iov_iter code, since that should test both of those ARCH_HAS cases, but that was purely a build test.

Also, the new __must_check warnings do trigger. At least for lustre. I couldn't be arsed to try to fix those, since .. lustre. But I'm also adding a couple of lustre people to the cc, just to make them aware of it.. I'd really like the allmodconfig build to be clean.

Linus