[PATCH] ptrace: zero out siginfo_t in ptrace_peek_siginfo()

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 11:17:35 EST


KMSAN reported the following infoleak:

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BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0x15d/0x1f0
...
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77
dump_stack+0x2f5/0x430 lib/dump_stack.c:113
kmsan_report+0x183/0x2b0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:917
kmsan_internal_check_memory+0x17e/0x1f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:981
kmsan_copy_to_user+0x79/0xc0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_hooks.c:482
_copy_to_user+0x15d/0x1f0 lib/usercopy.c:31
copy_to_user ./include/linux/uaccess.h:183
copy_siginfo_to_user+0x81/0x130 kernel/signal.c:2897
ptrace_peek_siginfo kernel/ptrace.c:741
ptrace_request+0x2278/0x2680 kernel/ptrace.c:912
arch_ptrace+0xbdd/0x11a0 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:877
__do_sys_ptrace kernel/ptrace.c:1145
__se_sys_ptrace+0x422/0x920 kernel/ptrace.c:1110
__x64_sys_ptrace+0x56/0x70 kernel/ptrace.c:1110
do_syscall_64+0xb8/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:291
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xe7 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:240
...
Local variable description: ----info.i@ptrace_request
Variable was created at:
ptrace_peek_siginfo kernel/ptrace.c:712
ptrace_request+0xdf/0x2680 kernel/ptrace.c:912
arch_ptrace+0xbdd/0x11a0 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:877

Bytes 16-127 of 128 are uninitialized
Memory access starts at ffff88007af6fc90
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when calling ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO) for a traceable child process
with args = {-1, 0, 1}.

Initialize the |info| structure to avoid leaking stack data.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+69c3bd9869b32e394c48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 84c751bd4aebb ("ptrace: add ability to retrieve signals without
removing from a queue (v4)")
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
---
kernel/ptrace.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 21fec73d45d4..92c3855c2b9c 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -712,6 +712,7 @@ static int ptrace_peek_siginfo(struct task_struct *child,
siginfo_t info;
s32 off = arg.off + i;

+ memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
list_for_each_entry(q, &pending->list, list) {
if (!off--) {
--
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog