Re: [PATCH] floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 19:15:04 EST


On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 14:27 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
[...]
> >From ddb8c77229a9507fa5575c910d2847e123a9c94c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 13:04:15 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in
> FDGETPRM ioctl
>
> The final field of a floppy_struct is the field "name", which is a pointer
> to a string in kernel memory. The kernel pointer should not be copied to
> user memory. The FDGETPRM ioctl copies a floppy_struct to user memory,
> including this "name" field. This pointer cannot be used by the user
> and it will leak a kernel address to user-space, which will reveal the
> location of kernel code and data and undermine KASLR protection.
>
> Model this code after the compat ioctl which copies the returned data
> to a previously cleared temporary structure on the stack (excluding the
> name pointer) and copy out to userspace from there. As we already have
> an inparam union with an appropriate member and that memory is already
> cleared even for read only calls make use of that as a temporary store.
>
> Based on an initial patch by Brian Belleville.
>
> CVE-2018-7755
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ben.

> ---
> drivers/block/floppy.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 8ec7235fc93b..7512f6ff7c43 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -3470,6 +3470,8 @@ static int fd_locked_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned int
> (struct floppy_struct **)&outparam);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> + memcpy(&inparam.g, outparam, offsetof(struct floppy_struct, name));
> + outparam = &inparam.g;
> break;
> case FDMSGON:
> UDP->flags |= FTD_MSG;
--
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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