Re: [PATCH v3] sg: mitigate read/write abuse

From: Douglas Gilbert
Date: Mon Jun 25 2018 - 19:19:01 EST


On 2018-06-25 04:25 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
As Al Viro noted in commit 128394eff343 ("sg_write()/bsg_write() is not fit
to be called under KERNEL_DS"), sg improperly accesses userspace memory
outside the provided buffer, permitting kernel memory corruption via
splice().
But it doesn't just do it on ->write(), also on ->read().

As a band-aid, make sure that the ->read() and ->write() handlers can not
be called in weird contexts (kernel context or credentials different from
file opener), like for ib_safe_file_access().

If someone needs to use these interfaces from different security contexts,
a new interface should be written that goes through the ->ioctl() handler.

I've mostly copypasted ib_safe_file_access() over as sg_safe_file_access()
because I couldn't find a good common header - please tell me if you know a
better way.

changed in v2:
- remove the bsg parts per Christoph Hellwig's request

changed in v3:
- move error messages into helper function
- use two different error messages and return values (Douglas Gilbert)
- add comment on stranded responses (Douglas Gilbert)
- use current_real_cred() instead of current_cred() (so that
override_creds() can't bypass this check)

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/sg.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index 53ae52dbff84..4f4e88ca8213 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static int sg_version_num = 30536; /* 2 digits for each component */
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/cred.h> /* for sg_safe_file_access() */

s/_safe_/_check_/

#include "scsi.h"
#include <scsi/scsi_dbg.h>
@@ -209,6 +210,33 @@ static void sg_device_destroy(struct kref *kref);
sdev_prefix_printk(prefix, (sdp)->device, \
(sdp)->disk->disk_name, fmt, ##a)
+/*
+ * The SCSI interfaces that use read() and write() as an asynchronous variant of
+ * ioctl(..., SG_IO, ...) are fundamentally unsafe, since there are lots of ways
+ * to trigger read() and write() calls from various contexts with elevated
+ * privileges. This can lead to kernel memory corruption (e.g. if these
+ * interfaces are called through splice()) and privilege escalation inside
+ * userspace (e.g. if a process with access to such a device passes a file
+ * descriptor to a SUID binary as stdin/stdout/stderr).
+ *
+ * This function provides protection for the legacy API by restricting the
+ * calling context.
+ */
+static int sg_check_file_access(struct file *filp, const char *caller)
+{
+ if (filp->f_cred != current_real_cred()) {
+ pr_err_once("%s: process %d (%s) changed security contexts after opening file descriptor, this is not allowed.\n",
+ caller, task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+ if (uaccess_kernel()) {
+ pr_err_once("%s: process %d (%s) called from kernel context, this is not allowed.\n",
+ caller, task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int sg_allow_access(struct file *filp, unsigned char *cmd)
{
struct sg_fd *sfp = filp->private_data;
@@ -393,6 +421,14 @@ sg_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos)
struct sg_header *old_hdr = NULL;
int retval = 0;
+ /*
+ * This could cause a response to be stranded. Close the associated
+ * file descriptor to free up any resources being held.
+ */
+ retval = sg_check_file_access(filp, __func__);
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
+
if ((!(sfp = (Sg_fd *) filp->private_data)) || (!(sdp = sfp->parentdp)))
return -ENXIO;
SCSI_LOG_TIMEOUT(3, sg_printk(KERN_INFO, sdp,
@@ -580,9 +616,11 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos)
struct sg_header old_hdr;
sg_io_hdr_t *hp;
unsigned char cmnd[SG_MAX_CDB_SIZE];
+ int retval;
- if (unlikely(uaccess_kernel()))
- return -EINVAL;
+ retval = sg_check_file_access(filp, __func__);
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
if ((!(sfp = (Sg_fd *) filp->private_data)) || (!(sdp = sfp->parentdp)))
return -ENXIO;


If you need to make any other changes to this patch, then you could fix
that typo above.

Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>