Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net] net/smc: Prevent kernel-infoleak in __smc_diag_dump()

[Ursula Braun]

On 8/1/20 9:44 PM, Peilin Ye wrote:
> __smc_diag_dump() is potentially copying uninitialized kernel stack memory
> into socket buffers, since the compiler may leave a 4-byte hole near the
> beginning of `struct smcd_diag_dmbinfo`. Fix it by initializing `dinfo`
> with memset().
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 4b1b7d3b30a6 ("net/smc: add SMC-D diag support")
> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Reference: https://lwn.net/Articles/417989/
> 
> $ pahole -C "smcd_diag_dmbinfo" net/smc/smc_diag.o
> struct smcd_diag_dmbinfo {
> 	__u32                      linkid;               /*     0     4 */
> 
> 	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
> 	__u64                      peer_gid __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*     8     8 */
> 	__u64                      my_gid __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    16     8 */
> 	__u64                      token __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    24     8 */
> 	__u64                      peer_token __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    32     8 */
> 
> 	/* size: 40, cachelines: 1, members: 5 */
> 	/* sum members: 36, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
> 	/* forced alignments: 4, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 4 */
> 	/* last cacheline: 40 bytes */
> } __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));
> $ _
> 

Thanks, patch is added to our local library and will be part of our
next shipment of smc patches for the net-tree.

Regards, Ursula

>  net/smc/smc_diag.c | 16 +++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/smc/smc_diag.c b/net/smc/smc_diag.c
> index e1f64f4ba236..da9ba6d1679b 100644
> --- a/net/smc/smc_diag.c
> +++ b/net/smc/smc_diag.c
> @@ -170,13 +170,15 @@ static int __smc_diag_dump(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	    (req->diag_ext & (1 << (SMC_DIAG_DMBINFO - 1))) &&
>  	    !list_empty(&smc->conn.lgr->list)) {
>  		struct smc_connection *conn = &smc->conn;
> -		struct smcd_diag_dmbinfo dinfo = {
> -			.linkid = *((u32 *)conn->lgr->id),
> -			.peer_gid = conn->lgr->peer_gid,
> -			.my_gid = conn->lgr->smcd->local_gid,
> -			.token = conn->rmb_desc->token,
> -			.peer_token = conn->peer_token
> -		};
> +		struct smcd_diag_dmbinfo dinfo;
> +
> +		memset(&dinfo, 0, sizeof(dinfo));
> +
> +		dinfo.linkid = *((u32 *)conn->lgr->id);
> +		dinfo.peer_gid = conn->lgr->peer_gid;
> +		dinfo.my_gid = conn->lgr->smcd->local_gid;
> +		dinfo.token = conn->rmb_desc->token;
> +		dinfo.peer_token = conn->peer_token;
>  
>  		if (nla_put(skb, SMC_DIAG_DMBINFO, sizeof(dinfo), &dinfo) < 0)
>  			goto errout;
>