Re: [PATCH net] ethtool: limit bitset size

[David Miller]

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:42:12 +0100 (CET)

> Syzbot reported that ethnl_compact_sanity_checks() can be tricked into
> reading past the end of ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_VALUE and ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_MASK
> attributes and even the message by passing a value between (u32)(-31)
> and (u32)(-1) as ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_SIZE.
> 
> The problem is that DIV_ROUND_UP(attr_nbits, 32) is 0 for such values so
> that zero length ETHTOOL_A_BITSET_VALUE will pass the length check but
> ethnl_bitmap32_not_zero() check would try to access up to 512 MB of
> attribute "payload".
> 
> Prevent this overflow byt limiting the bitset size. Technically, compact
> bitset format would allow bitset sizes up to almost 2^18 (so that the
> nest size does not exceed U16_MAX) but bitsets used by ethtool are much
> shorter. S16_MAX, the largest value which can be directly used as an
> upper limit in policy, should be a reasonable compromise.
> 
> Fixes: 10b518d4e6dd ("ethtool: netlink bitset handling")
> Reported-by: syzbot+7fd4ed5b4234ab1fdccd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: syzbot+709b7a64d57978247e44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: syzbot+983cb8fb2d17a7af549d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Michal.