[PATCH] net: Whitelist the skbuff_head_cache "cb" field

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Feb 07 2018 - 20:44:50 EST


Most callers of put_cmsg() use a "sizeof(foo)" for the length argument.
Within put_cmsg(), a copy_to_user() call is made with a dynamic size, as a
result of the cmsg header calculations. This means that hardened usercopy
will examine the copy, even though it was technically a fixed size and
should be implicitly whitelisted. All the put_cmsg() calls being built
from values in skbuff_head_cache are coming out of the protocol-defined
"cb" field, so whitelist this field entirely instead of creating per-use
bounce buffers, for which there are concerns about performance.

Original report was:

Bad or missing usercopy whitelist? Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLAB object 'skbuff_head_cache' (offset 64, size 16)!
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3663 at mm/usercopy.c:81 usercopy_warn+0xdb/0x100 mm/usercopy.c:76
...
__check_heap_object+0x89/0xc0 mm/slab.c:4426
check_heap_object mm/usercopy.c:236 [inline]
__check_object_size+0x272/0x530 mm/usercopy.c:259
check_object_size include/linux/thread_info.h:112 [inline]
check_copy_size include/linux/thread_info.h:143 [inline]
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:154 [inline]
put_cmsg+0x233/0x3f0 net/core/scm.c:242
sock_recv_errqueue+0x200/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2913
packet_recvmsg+0xb2e/0x17a0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3296
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:803 [inline]
sock_recvmsg+0xc9/0x110 net/socket.c:810
___sys_recvmsg+0x2a4/0x640 net/socket.c:2179
__sys_recvmmsg+0x2a9/0xaf0 net/socket.c:2287
SYSC_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2368 [inline]
SyS_recvmmsg+0xc4/0x160 net/socket.c:2352
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x29/0xa0

Reported-by: syzbot+e2d6cfb305e9f3911dea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 6d07d1cd300f ("usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
I tried the inlining, it was awful. Splitting put_cmsg() was awful. So,
instead, whitelist the "cb" field as the least bad option if bounce
buffers are unacceptable. Dave, do you want to take this through net, or
should I take it through the usercopy tree?
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 6b0ff396fa9d..201b96c8f414 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3889,10 +3889,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_gro_receive);

void __init skb_init(void)
{
- skbuff_head_cache = kmem_cache_create("skbuff_head_cache",
+ skbuff_head_cache = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("skbuff_head_cache",
sizeof(struct sk_buff),
0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC,
+ offsetof(struct sk_buff, cb),
+ sizeof_field(struct sk_buff, cb),
NULL);
skbuff_fclone_cache = kmem_cache_create("skbuff_fclone_cache",
sizeof(struct sk_buff_fclones),
--
2.7.4


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Kees Cook
Pixel Security