Re: [PATCH 03/10] x86/fpu: Use validate_xstate_header() to validate the xstate_header in sanitize_restored_xstate()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Sep 24 2017 - 15:02:52 EST



* Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:59:06PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > @@ -328,10 +331,8 @@ static int __fpu__restore_sig(void __user *buf, void __user *buf_fx, int size)
> > err = copy_user_to_xstate(&fpu->state.xsave, buf_fx);
> > } else {
> > err = __copy_from_user(&fpu->state.xsave, buf_fx, state_size);
> > -
> > - /* xcomp_bv must be 0 when using uncompacted format */
> > - if (!err && fpu->state.xsave.header.xcomp_bv)
> > - err = -EINVAL;
> > + if (!err)
> > + err = validate_xstate_header(&fpu->state.xsave.header);
> > }
> >
>
> Sorry, this is the buggy part. The problem is that this code runs even if XSAVE
> isn't being used --- and in that case the state size is 512 bytes or less, so
> the state doesn't actually include the xstate_header. So
> validate_xstate_header() was reading out of bounds and seeing invalid values.
>
> So I think we need to check use_xsave() here, but it really needs to be in the
> earlier patch which added the check for just ->xcomp_bv ("x86/fpu: Don't let
> userspace set bogus xcomp_bv"), not in this one.
>
> As far the split of patch 2/3 into these 10 patches, it looks fine (though it
> suddenly became a *lot* of patches!). One nit: the subject of this one really
> should say "__fpu__restore_sig()", not "sanitize_restored_xstate()".
>
> I can send a fixed series when I have a chance.

Could you please just send the delta patch against the whole tree to fix the bug?
I'll worry about the patch dependencies and back-merge it to the proper place.

Thanks,

Ingo