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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 15:57:34 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Keun-O Park <kpark3469@...il.com>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, keun-o.park@...kmatter.ae
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] arm64: usercopy: consider dynamic array stack variable
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:19 AM, <kpark3469@...il.com> wrote:
> From: Sahara <keun-o.park@...kmatter.ae>
>
> When an array is dynamically declared, the array may be placed
> at next frame. If this variable is used for usercopy, then it
> will cause an Oops because the current check code does not allow
> this exceptional case.
>
> low -----------------------------------------------------> high
> [__check_object_size fp][lr][args][local vars][caller_fp][lr]
> ^----------------^
> dynamically allocated stack variable of
> caller frame copies are allowed within here
>
> < example code snippet >
> array_size = get_random_int() & 0x0f;
> if (to_user) {
> unsigned char array[array_size];
> if (copy_to_user((void __user *)user_addr, array,
> unconst + sizeof(array))) {
And once we have -Wvla in the build[1] by default we can revert this
and ignore the VLA case, yes?
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
-Kees
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Signed-off-by: Sahara <keun-o.park@...kmatter.ae>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> index 6d37fad..75a8f20 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
> @@ -162,8 +162,13 @@ int arch_within_stack_frames(const void *stack,
> * Skip 4 non-inlined frames: <fake frame>,
> * arch_within_stack_frames(), check_stack_object() and
> * __check_object_size().
> + *
> + * From Akashi's report, an object may be placed between next caller's
> + * frame, when the object is created as dynamic array.
> + * Setting the discard_frames to 3 is proper to catch this exceptional
> + * case.
> */
> - arg.discard_frames = 4;
> + arg.discard_frames = 3;
>
> walk_stackframe(current, &frame, check_frame, &arg);
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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