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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:33:50 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, eldad@...refinery.com, Jiri
Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com, Dan Rosenberg
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Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, "Eric W. Biederman"
<ebiederm@...ssion.com>, George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Check real user/group id for %pK
On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 09:25 +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> if (kptr_restrict && (in_irq() || in_serving_softirq() ||
> in_nmi())) {
>
> Is making sure that you don't have kernel code doing something like this:
>
> irqreturn_t some_irq_handler(int irq, void *data)
> {
> struct seq_file *seq = to_seq(data);
>
> seq_printf(seq, "value = %pK\n");
> return IRQ_HANDLED;
> }
>
> Because that obviously won't work when kptr_restrict=1 (because the
> CAP_SYSLOG check is meaningless). However, the code is broken regardless
> of the kptr_restrict value.
The only brokenness I see here is that the code doesn't pass
a pointer along with %pK
seq_printf(seq, "value of seq: %pK\n", seq);
> Since the default value of kptr_restrict is
> 0, this kind of bug can go over-looked because the seq file will print
> the pointer value correctly when kptr_restrict=0, and it will correctly
> print 0's when kptr_restrict=2, but it will print 'pK-error' when
> kptr_restrict=1. Doing the check in all cases makes it more likely that
> bugs like this get found. In fact, doing something like:
>
> if (WARN_ON(in_irq() || in_serving_softirq() || in_nmi())) {
>
> Might be better, since that will print a stack-trace showing where the
> offending vsprintf is.
WARN_ON would be potentially _very_ noisy.
Maybe a long period (once a day?) ratelimited dump_stack();
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