[PATCH] do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak

From: Nikita Zhandarovich
Date: Fri Jan 19 2024 - 10:39:43 EST


syzbot identified a kernel information leak vulnerability in
do_sys_name_to_handle() and issued the following report [1].

[1]
"BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40
instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]
_copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]
do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:73 [inline]
__do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]
__se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x949/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94
__x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94
...

Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5c9/0x970 mm/slub.c:3517
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
__kmalloc+0x121/0x3c0 mm/slab_common.c:1020
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:39 [inline]
__do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]
__se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x441/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94
__x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94
...

Bytes 18-19 of 20 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 20 starts at ffff888128a46380
Data copied to user address 0000000020000240"

Per Chuck Lever's suggestion, use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() to
solve the problem.

Fixes: 990d6c2d7aee ("vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support")
Suggested-by: Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+09b349b3066c2e0b1e96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Link to Chuck's suggestion:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/B4A8D625-6997-49C8-B105-B2DCFE8C6DDA@xxxxxxxxxx/

fs/fhandle.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fhandle.c b/fs/fhandle.c
index 18b3ba8dc8ea..57a12614addf 100644
--- a/fs/fhandle.c
+++ b/fs/fhandle.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static long do_sys_name_to_handle(const struct path *path,
if (f_handle.handle_bytes > MAX_HANDLE_SZ)
return -EINVAL;

- handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct file_handle) + f_handle.handle_bytes,
+ handle = kzalloc(sizeof(struct file_handle) + f_handle.handle_bytes,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!handle)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.25.1