Re: [PATCH] tun: make sure interface usage can not overflow

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Sep 29 2014 - 07:59:17 EST


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:48:49PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This makes the size argument a const, since it is always populated by
> > the caller. Additionally double-checks to make sure the copy_from_user
> > can never overflow, keeping CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS happy:
> >
> > In function 'copy_from_user',
> > inlined from '__tun_chr_ioctl' at drivers/net/tun.c:1871:7:
> > ... copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> What exactly is the issue here?
> __tun_chr_ioctl is called with sizeof(struct compat_ifreq)
> or sizeof (struct ifreq) as the last argument.
>
> So this looks like a false positive, but
> CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS machinery is supposed
> to avoid false positives.
>
> On which architecture is this?


Also - which kernel?
Does your kernel include: commit 3df7b41aa5e7797f391d0a41f8b0dce1fe366a09
x86: Unify copy_from_user() size checking
?



> > ---
> > drivers/net/tun.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> > index acaaf6784179..a1f317cba206 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> > @@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ unlock:
> > }
> >
> > static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> > - unsigned long arg, int ifreq_len)
> > + unsigned long arg, const size_t ifreq_len)
> > {
> > struct tun_file *tfile = file->private_data;
> > struct tun_struct *tun;
> > @@ -1869,6 +1869,7 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> > int ret;
> >
> > if (cmd == TUNSETIFF || cmd == TUNSETQUEUE || _IOC_TYPE(cmd) == 0x89) {
> > + BUG_ON(ifreq_len > sizeof(ifr));
> > if (copy_from_user(&ifr, argp, ifreq_len))
> > return -EFAULT;
> > } else {
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kees Cook
> > Chrome OS Security
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