Re: scsi: use-after-free in bio_copy_from_iter

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Dec 05 2016 - 14:03:59 EST


On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:17:53PM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> 633 hp = &srp->header;
> [...]
> 646 hp->dxferp = (char __user *)buf + cmd_size;

> So the memory for hp->dxferp comes from:
> 633 hp = &srp->header;

????

> >From my debug instrumentation I see that the dxferp ends up in the
> iovec_iter's kvec->iov_base and the faulting address is always dxferp + n *
> 4k with n in [1, 16] (and we're copying 16 4k pages from the iovec into the
> bio).

_Address_ of hp->dxferp comes from that assignment; the value is 'buf'
argument of sg_write() + small offset. In this case, it should point
inside a pipe buffer, which is, indeed, at a kernel address. Who'd
allocated srp is irrelevant.

And if you end up dereferencing more than one page worth there, you do have
a problem - pipe buffers are not going to be that large. Could you slap
WARN_ON((size_t)input_size > count);
right after the calculation of input_size in sg_write() and see if it triggers
on your reproducer?