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Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:58:57 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] mm: Use array_size() helpers for kmalloc()
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 05:42:20PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> @@ -499,6 +500,8 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_large(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
>> */
>> static __always_inline void *kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
>> {
>> + if (size == SIZE_MAX)
>> + return NULL;
>> if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
>> if (size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)
>> return kmalloc_large(size, flags);
>
> I don't like the add-checking-to-every-call-site part of this patch.
> Fine, the compiler will optimise it away if it can calculate it at compile
> time, but there are a lot of situations where it can't. You aren't
> adding any safety by doing this; trying to allocate SIZE_MAX bytes is
> guaranteed to fail, and it doesn't need to fail quickly.
Fun bit of paranoia: I added early checks to devm_kmalloc() too in
another patch after 0-day started yelling about other things, and this
morning while removing the SIZE_MAX checks based on your feedback, I
discovered:
void * devm_kmalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct devres *dr;
/* use raw alloc_dr for kmalloc caller tracing */
dr = alloc_dr(devm_kmalloc_release, size, gfp, dev_to_node(dev));
...
static __always_inline struct devres * alloc_dr(dr_release_t release,
size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int nid)
{
size_t tot_size = sizeof(struct devres) + size;
struct devres *dr;
dr = kmalloc_node_track_caller(tot_size, gfp, nid);
...
which is exactly the pattern I was worried about: SIZE_MAX plus some
small number would overflow. :(
So, I've added an explicit overflow check in devm_kmalloc() now.
Thoughts: making {struct,array,array3}_size() return "SIZE_MAX -
something" could help for generic cases (like above), but it might
still be possible in a buggy situation for an attacker to choose
factors that do NOT overflow, but reach something like "SIZE_MAX - 1"
and then the later addition will wrap it around. I'm leaning towards
doing it anyway, though, since not all factors in a given bug may have
very high granularity, giving us better protection than SIZE_MAX.
However, since now we're separating overflow checking from saturation
(i.e. we could calculate a non-overflowing value that lands in the
saturation zone), we can't sanely to the check_*_overflow() cases,
since the "saturated" results from array_size() aren't SIZE_MAX any
more...
I can't decide which is a safer failure case...
> Hmm. I wonder why we have the kmalloc/__kmalloc "optimisation"
> in kmalloc_array, but not kcalloc. Bet we don't really need it in
> kmalloc_array. I'll do some testing.
Not sure; my new patches drop it entirely since they're redefining
*calloc() and *_array*() with the helpers now...
I'll send a v2 shortly (without the treewide changes, since those are
huge and only changed slightly with some 0-day noticed glitches).
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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