[PATCH] net: Finish up ->msg_control{,_user} split

From: Kevin Brodsky
Date: Tue Apr 11 2023 - 08:26:38 EST


Commit 1f466e1f15cf ("net: cleanly handle kernel vs user buffers for
->msg_control") introduced the msg_control_user and
msg_control_is_user fields in struct msghdr to ensure user pointers
are represented as such. It also took care of converting most users
of struct msghdr::msg_control where user pointers are involved. It
did however miss a number of cases, and some code using msg_control
inappropriately has also appeared in the meantime.

This patch is attempting to complete the split. Most issues are about
msg_control being used when in fact a user pointer is stored in the
union; msg_control_user is now used instead. An exception is made
for null checks, as it should be safe to use msg_control
unconditionally for that purpose.

Additionally, a special situation in
cmsghdr_from_user_compat_to_kern() is addressed. There the input
struct msghdr holds a user pointer (msg_control_user), but a kernel
pointer is stored in msg_control when returning. msg_control_is_user
is now updated accordingly.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@xxxxxxx>
---
Note: this issue was discovered during the porting of Linux on
Morello [1].

[1] https://git.morello-project.org/morello/kernel/linux

net/compat.c | 13 +++++++------
net/core/scm.c | 9 ++++++---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 ++--
net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/compat.c b/net/compat.c
index 161b7bea1f62..6564720f32b7 100644
--- a/net/compat.c
+++ b/net/compat.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int get_compat_msghdr(struct msghdr *kmsg,

#define CMSG_COMPAT_FIRSTHDR(msg) \
(((msg)->msg_controllen) >= sizeof(struct compat_cmsghdr) ? \
- (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)((msg)->msg_control) : \
+ (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)((msg)->msg_control_user) : \
(struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)NULL)

#define CMSG_COMPAT_OK(ucmlen, ucmsg, mhdr) \
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline struct compat_cmsghdr __user *cmsg_compat_nxthdr(struct msghdr *ms
struct compat_cmsghdr __user *cmsg, int cmsg_len)
{
char __user *ptr = (char __user *)cmsg + CMSG_COMPAT_ALIGN(cmsg_len);
- if ((unsigned long)(ptr + 1 - (char __user *)msg->msg_control) >
+ if ((unsigned long)(ptr + 1 - (char __user *)msg->msg_control_user) >
msg->msg_controllen)
return NULL;
return (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)ptr;
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ int cmsghdr_from_user_compat_to_kern(struct msghdr *kmsg, struct sock *sk,
goto Einval;

/* Ok, looks like we made it. Hook it up and return success. */
+ kmsg->msg_control_is_user = false;
kmsg->msg_control = kcmsg_base;
kmsg->msg_controllen = kcmlen;
return 0;
@@ -225,7 +226,7 @@ int cmsghdr_from_user_compat_to_kern(struct msghdr *kmsg, struct sock *sk,

int put_cmsg_compat(struct msghdr *kmsg, int level, int type, int len, void *data)
{
- struct compat_cmsghdr __user *cm = (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *) kmsg->msg_control;
+ struct compat_cmsghdr __user *cm = (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *) kmsg->msg_control_user;
struct compat_cmsghdr cmhdr;
struct old_timeval32 ctv;
struct old_timespec32 cts[3];
@@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ int put_cmsg_compat(struct msghdr *kmsg, int level, int type, int len, void *dat
cmlen = CMSG_COMPAT_SPACE(len);
if (kmsg->msg_controllen < cmlen)
cmlen = kmsg->msg_controllen;
- kmsg->msg_control += cmlen;
+ kmsg->msg_control_user += cmlen;
kmsg->msg_controllen -= cmlen;
return 0;
}
@@ -289,7 +290,7 @@ static int scm_max_fds_compat(struct msghdr *msg)
void scm_detach_fds_compat(struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *scm)
{
struct compat_cmsghdr __user *cm =
- (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)msg->msg_control;
+ (struct compat_cmsghdr __user *)msg->msg_control_user;
unsigned int o_flags = (msg->msg_flags & MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) ? O_CLOEXEC : 0;
int fdmax = min_t(int, scm_max_fds_compat(msg), scm->fp->count);
int __user *cmsg_data = CMSG_COMPAT_DATA(cm);
@@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ void scm_detach_fds_compat(struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *scm)
cmlen = CMSG_COMPAT_SPACE(i * sizeof(int));
if (msg->msg_controllen < cmlen)
cmlen = msg->msg_controllen;
- msg->msg_control += cmlen;
+ msg->msg_control_user += cmlen;
msg->msg_controllen -= cmlen;
}
}
diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index acb7d776fa6e..3cd7dd377e53 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -250,7 +250,10 @@ int put_cmsg(struct msghdr * msg, int level, int type, int len, void *data)
}

cmlen = min(CMSG_SPACE(len), msg->msg_controllen);
- msg->msg_control += cmlen;
+ if (msg->msg_control_is_user)
+ msg->msg_control_user += cmlen;
+ else
+ msg->msg_control += cmlen;
msg->msg_controllen -= cmlen;
return 0;

@@ -299,7 +302,7 @@ static int scm_max_fds(struct msghdr *msg)
void scm_detach_fds(struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *scm)
{
struct cmsghdr __user *cm =
- (__force struct cmsghdr __user *)msg->msg_control;
+ (__force struct cmsghdr __user *)msg->msg_control_user;
unsigned int o_flags = (msg->msg_flags & MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) ? O_CLOEXEC : 0;
int fdmax = min_t(int, scm_max_fds(msg), scm->fp->count);
int __user *cmsg_data = CMSG_USER_DATA(cm);
@@ -332,7 +335,7 @@ void scm_detach_fds(struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *scm)
cmlen = CMSG_SPACE(i * sizeof(int));
if (msg->msg_controllen < cmlen)
cmlen = msg->msg_controllen;
- msg->msg_control += cmlen;
+ msg->msg_control_user += cmlen;
msg->msg_controllen -= cmlen;
}
}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 288693981b00..6fa7a3fa9abd 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2164,7 +2164,7 @@ static void tcp_zc_finalize_rx_tstamp(struct sock *sk,
struct msghdr cmsg_dummy;

msg_control_addr = (unsigned long)zc->msg_control;
- cmsg_dummy.msg_control = (void *)msg_control_addr;
+ cmsg_dummy.msg_control_user = (void __user *)msg_control_addr;
cmsg_dummy.msg_controllen =
(__kernel_size_t)zc->msg_controllen;
cmsg_dummy.msg_flags = in_compat_syscall()
@@ -2175,7 +2175,7 @@ static void tcp_zc_finalize_rx_tstamp(struct sock *sk,
zc->msg_controllen == cmsg_dummy.msg_controllen) {
tcp_recv_timestamp(&cmsg_dummy, sk, tss);
zc->msg_control = (__u64)
- ((uintptr_t)cmsg_dummy.msg_control);
+ ((uintptr_t)cmsg_dummy.msg_control_user);
zc->msg_controllen =
(__u64)cmsg_dummy.msg_controllen;
zc->msg_flags = (__u32)cmsg_dummy.msg_flags;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
index 2917dd8d198c..ae818ff46224 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c
@@ -716,6 +716,7 @@ int do_ipv6_setsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
goto done;

msg.msg_controllen = optlen;
+ msg.msg_control_is_user = false;
msg.msg_control = (void *)(opt+1);
ipc6.opt = opt;

--
2.38.1