Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v6 10/43] compat_ioctl: move rtc handling into rtc-dev.c

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 17/10/2019 16:33:09+0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:42 PM Ben Hutchings
> <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 21:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > We no longer need the rtc compat handling to be in common code, now that
> > > all drivers are either moved to the rtc-class framework, or (rarely)
> > > exist in drivers/char for architectures without compat mode (m68k,
> > > alpha and ia64, respectively).
> > >
> > > I checked the list of ioctl commands in drivers, and the ones that are
> > > not already handled are all compatible, again with the one exception of
> > > m68k driver, which implements RTC_PLL_GET and RTC_PLL_SET, but has no
> > > compat mode.
> > >
> > > Since the ioctl commands are either compatible or differ in both structure
> > > and command code between 32-bit and 64-bit, we can merge the compat
> > > handler into the native one and just implement the two common compat
> > > commands (RTC_IRQP_READ, RTC_IRQP_SET) there.
> > [...]
> >
> > I don't think this can work properly on s390, because some of them take
> > integers and some take pointers.
> 
> Thanks a lot for taking a look at the patch and pointing this out!
> 
> I don't remember how I got to this, either I missed the problem or I
> decided that it was ok, since it will still do the right thing:
> On s390 only the highest bit is cleared in a pointer value, and we
> ensure that the RTC_IRQP_SET argument is between 1 and 8192.
> 
> Passing a value of (0x80000000 + n) where n is in the valid range
> would lead to the call succeeding unexpectedly on compat s390
> (if it had an RTC, which it does not) which is clearly not good but
> mostly harmless. I certainly had not considered this case.
> 
> However, looking at this again after your comment I found a rather
> more serious bug in my new RTC_IRQP_SET handling: Any 64-bit
> machine can now bypass the permission check for RTC_IRQP_SET by
> calling RTC_IRQP_SET32 instead.
> 
> I'll fix it both issues by adding a rtc_compat_dev_ioctl() to handle
> RTC_IRQP_SET32/RTC_IRQP_READ32:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/dev.c b/drivers/rtc/dev.c
> index 1dc5063f78c9..9e4fd5088ead 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/dev.c
> @@ -358,16 +358,6 @@ static long rtc_dev_ioctl(struct file *file,
>                 mutex_unlock(&rtc->ops_lock);
>                 return rtc_update_irq_enable(rtc, 0);
> 
> -#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> -#define RTC_IRQP_SET32         _IOW('p', 0x0c, __u32)
> -#define RTC_IRQP_READ32                _IOR('p', 0x0b, __u32)
> -       case RTC_IRQP_SET32:
> -               err = rtc_irq_set_freq(rtc, arg);
> -               break;
> -       case RTC_IRQP_READ32:
> -               err = put_user(rtc->irq_freq, (unsigned int __user *)uarg);
> -               break;
> -#endif
>         case RTC_IRQP_SET:
>                 err = rtc_irq_set_freq(rtc, arg);
>                 break;
> @@ -409,6 +399,29 @@ static long rtc_dev_ioctl(struct file *file,
>         return err;
>  }
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> +#define RTC_IRQP_SET32         _IOW('p', 0x0c, __u32)
> +#define RTC_IRQP_READ32                _IOR('p', 0x0b, __u32)
> +
> +static long rtc_dev_compat_ioctl(struct file *file,
> +                                unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> +{
> +       struct rtc_device *rtc = file->private_data;
> +       void __user *uarg = compat_ptr(arg);
> +
> +       switch (cmd) {
> +       case RTC_IRQP_READ32:
> +               return put_user(rtc->irq_freq, (__u32 __user *)uarg);
> +
> +       case RTC_IRQP_SET32:
> +               /* arg is a plain integer, not pointer */
> +               return rtc_dev_ioctl(file, RTC_IRQP_SET, arg);
> +       }
> +
> +       return rtc_dev_ioctl(file, cmd, (unsigned long)uarg);
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  static int rtc_dev_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int on)
>  {
>         struct rtc_device *rtc = file->private_data;
> @@ -444,7 +457,7 @@ static const struct file_operations rtc_dev_fops = {
>         .read           = rtc_dev_read,
>         .poll           = rtc_dev_poll,
>         .unlocked_ioctl = rtc_dev_ioctl,
> -       .compat_ioctl   = compat_ptr_ioctl,
> +       .compat_ioctl   = rtc_dev_compat_ioctl,
>         .open           = rtc_dev_open,
>         .release        = rtc_dev_release,
>         .fasync         = rtc_dev_fasync,
> 
> If you and Alexandre are both happy with this version, I'll fold it into
> my original patch.
> 

I'm OK with that version

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
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