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Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 14:38:03 +1000
From: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Make feature-fixup tests fortify-safe
On 22/05/17 11:32, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Testing the fortified string functions[1] would cause a kernel
> panic on boot in test_feature_fixups() due to a buffer overflow
> in memcmp.
>
> This boils down to things like this:
>
> extern unsigned int ftr_fixup_test1;
> extern unsigned int ftr_fixup_test1_orig;
>
> check(memcmp(&ftr_fixup_test1, &ftr_fixup_test1_orig, size) == 0);
>
> We know that these are asm labels so it is safe to read up to
> 'size' bytes at those addresses.
>
> However, because we have passed the address of a single unsigned
> int to memcmp, the compiler believes the underlying object is in
> fact a single unsigned int. So if size > sizeof(unsigned int),
> there will be a panic at runtime.
>
> We can fix this by changing the types: instead of calling the asm
> labels unsigned ints, call them unsigned int[]s. Therefore the
> size isn't incorrectly determined at compile time and we get a
> regular unsafe memcmp and no panic.
>
> [1] http://openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/05/09/2
>
> Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
With this patch on top of Kees' fortify branch, my Tuleta boots
powernv_defconfig baremetal with no obvious regressions.
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
Patch looks sane enough too.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
--
Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
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