[PATCH v3 16/31] cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 16:46:38 EST


From: David Windsor <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

CIFS request buffers, stored in the cifs_request slab cache, need to be
copied to/from userspace.

cache object allocation:
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c:
cifs_init_request_bufs():
...
cifs_req_poolp = mempool_create_slab_pool(cifs_min_rcv,
cifs_req_cachep);

fs/cifs/misc.c:
cifs_buf_get():
...
ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
...
return ret_buf;

In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
cifs_request slab cache in which userspace copy operations are allowed.

This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab
caches can now check that each copy operation involving cache-managed
memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.

This patch is verbatim from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[kees: adjust commit log, provide usage trace]
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I wasn't able to actually track down the _usage_ of the cifs_request where
it is copied to userspace. If any CIFS folks could help point that out, it
would be very welcome. :) I suspect it might be part of the debug routines,
but I never managed to exercise them.
---
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 180b3356ff86..09dfdf76c738 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -1229,9 +1229,11 @@ cifs_init_request_bufs(void)
cifs_dbg(VFS, "CIFSMaxBufSize %d 0x%x\n",
CIFSMaxBufSize, CIFSMaxBufSize);
*/
- cifs_req_cachep = kmem_cache_create("cifs_request",
+ cifs_req_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("cifs_request",
CIFSMaxBufSize + max_hdr_size, 0,
- SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, 0,
+ CIFSMaxBufSize + max_hdr_size,
+ NULL);
if (cifs_req_cachep == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1257,9 +1259,9 @@ cifs_init_request_bufs(void)
more SMBs to use small buffer alloc and is still much more
efficient to alloc 1 per page off the slab compared to 17K (5page)
alloc of large cifs buffers even when page debugging is on */
- cifs_sm_req_cachep = kmem_cache_create("cifs_small_rq",
+ cifs_sm_req_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("cifs_small_rq",
MAX_CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER_SIZE, 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
- NULL);
+ 0, MAX_CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER_SIZE, NULL);
if (cifs_sm_req_cachep == NULL) {
mempool_destroy(cifs_req_poolp);
kmem_cache_destroy(cifs_req_cachep);
--
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