Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757392AbaKSWVE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:21:04 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55883 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932571AbaKSUyM (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:54:12 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, David Ramos , Stefan Richter Subject: [PATCH 3.17 079/141] firewire: cdev: prevent kernel stack leaking into ioctl arguments Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:51:42 -0800 Message-Id: <20141119205153.261644983@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.3 In-Reply-To: <20141119205150.700188369@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20141119205150.700188369@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Stefan Richter commit eaca2d8e75e90a70a63a6695c9f61932609db212 upstream. Found by the UC-KLEE tool: A user could supply less input to firewire-cdev ioctls than write- or write/read-type ioctl handlers expect. The handlers used data from uninitialized kernel stack then. This could partially leak back to the user if the kernel subsequently generated fw_cdev_event_'s (to be read from the firewire-cdev fd) which notably would contain the _u64 closure field which many of the ioctl argument structures contain. The fact that the handlers would act on random garbage input is a lesser issue since all handlers must check their input anyway. The fix simply always null-initializes the entire ioctl argument buffer regardless of the actual length of expected user input. That is, a runtime overhead of memset(..., 40) is added to each firewirew-cdev ioctl() call. [Comment from Clemens Ladisch: This part of the stack is most likely to be already in the cache.] Remarks: - There was never any leak from kernel stack to the ioctl output buffer itself. IOW, it was not possible to read kernel stack by a read-type or write/read-type ioctl alone; the leak could at most happen in combination with read()ing subsequent event data. - The actual expected minimum user input of each ioctl from include/uapi/linux/firewire-cdev.h is, in bytes: [0x00] = 32, [0x05] = 4, [0x0a] = 16, [0x0f] = 20, [0x14] = 16, [0x01] = 36, [0x06] = 20, [0x0b] = 4, [0x10] = 20, [0x15] = 20, [0x02] = 20, [0x07] = 4, [0x0c] = 0, [0x11] = 0, [0x16] = 8, [0x03] = 4, [0x08] = 24, [0x0d] = 20, [0x12] = 36, [0x17] = 12, [0x04] = 20, [0x09] = 24, [0x0e] = 4, [0x13] = 40, [0x18] = 4. Reported-by: David Ramos Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c @@ -1637,8 +1637,7 @@ static int dispatch_ioctl(struct client _IOC_SIZE(cmd) > sizeof(buffer)) return -ENOTTY; - if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) == _IOC_READ) - memset(&buffer, 0, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)); + memset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer)); if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_WRITE) if (copy_from_user(&buffer, arg, _IOC_SIZE(cmd))) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/