Re: usercopy whitelist woe in scsi_sense_cache

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Apr 17 2018 - 17:47:08 EST


On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/17/18 3:25 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I see elv.priv[1] assignments made in a few places -- is it possible
>>> there is some kind of uninitialized-but-not-NULL state that can leak
>>> in there?
>>
>> Got it. This fixes it for me:
>>
>> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
>> index 0dc9e341c2a7..859df3160303 100644
>> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
>> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
>> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_get_request(struct
>> request_queue *q,
>>
>> rq = blk_mq_rq_ctx_init(data, tag, op);
>> if (!op_is_flush(op)) {
>> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
>> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
>> if (e && e->type->ops.mq.prepare_request) {
>> if (e->type->icq_cache && rq_ioc(bio))
>> blk_mq_sched_assign_ioc(rq, bio);
>> @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq)
>> e->type->ops.mq.finish_request(rq);
>> if (rq->elv.icq) {
>> put_io_context(rq->elv.icq->ioc);
>> - rq->elv.icq = NULL;
>> + memset(&rq->elv, 0, sizeof(rq->elv));
>> }
>> }
>
> This looks like a BFQ problem, this should not be necessary. Paolo,
> you're calling your own prepare request handler from the insert
> as well, and your prepare request does nothing if rq->elv.icq == NULL.

I sent the patch anyway, since it's kind of a robustness improvement,
I'd hope. If you fix BFQ also, please add:

Reported-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Root-caused-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

:) I gotta task-switch to other things!

Thanks for the pointers, and thank you Oleksandr for providing the reproducer!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security