Re: [PATCH] net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtoolactions

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 17:34:08 EST


Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 Ã 14:10 -0700, Kees Cook a Ãcrit :
> Several other ethtool functions leave heap uncleared (potentially) by
> drivers. Some interfaces appear safe (eeprom, etc), in that the sizes
> are well controlled. In some situations (e.g. unchecked error conditions),
> the heap will remain unchanged in areas before copying back to userspace.
> Note that these are less of an issue since these all require CAP_NET_ADMIN.

> @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_regs(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr)
> if (regs.len > reglen)
> regs.len = reglen;
>
> - regbuf = kmalloc(reglen, GFP_USER);
> + regbuf = kzalloc(reglen, GFP_USER);
> if (!regbuf)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> --
> 1.7.1
>

Are you sure this is not hiding a more problematic problem ?

Code does :

reglen = ops->get_regs_len(dev);
if (regs.len > reglen)
regs.len = reglen;
regbuf = kmalloc(reglen, GFP_USER);

So we can not copy back kernel memory.

However, what happens if user provides regs.len = 1 byte, and driver
get_regs() doesnt properly checks regs.len and write past end of regbuf
-> We probably write on other parts of kernel memory

An audit is needed, but first driver I checked is buggy
(drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c)

->
memset(p, 0, qlcnic_get_regs_len(dev));



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