Re: [PATCH v2] tpm: vtpm_proxy: Double-check to avoid buffer overflow

[Jann Horn]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:20 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 03:39:31PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 08:32:43PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:37 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > When building with -Warray-bounds, this warning was emitted:
> > > >
> > > > In function 'memset',
> > > >     inlined from 'vtpm_proxy_fops_read' at drivers/char/tpm/tpm_vtpm_proxy.c:102:2:
> > > > ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:43:33: warning: '__builtin_memset' pointer overflow between offset 164 and size [2147483648, 4294967295]
> > > > [-Warray-bounds]
> > > >    43 | #define __underlying_memset     __builtin_memset
> > > >       |                                 ^
> > >
> > > Can you explain what that compiler warning actually means, and which
> > > compiler it is from? Is this from a 32-bit or a 64-bit architecture?
>
> This is from ARCH=i386
>
> > >
> > > It sounds like the compiler (GCC?) is hallucinating a codepath on
>
> Yes, GCC 11.2.
>
> > > which "len" is guaranteed to be >=2147483648, right? Why is it doing
> > > that? Is this some kinda side effect from the fortify code?
>
> Right; I don't know what triggered it. I assume the "count" comparison.
> The warning is generated with or without CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. It is
> from adding -Warray-bounds. This is one of the last places in the kernel
> where a warning is being thrown for this option, and it has found a lot
> of real bugs, so Gustavo and I have been working to get the build
> warning-clean so we can enable it globally.
>
> > I agree, this looks bogus, or at least the commit message neeeds alot
> > more explaining.
> >
> > static int vtpm_proxy_tpm_op_send(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *buf, size_t count)
> >
> >         if (count > sizeof(proxy_dev->buffer))
> >             [...]
> >         proxy_dev->req_len = count;
> >
> > Not clear how req_len can be larger than sizeof(buffer)?
>
> Given the current code, I agree: it's not possible.
>
> As for the cause of the warning, my assumption is that since the compiler
> only has visibility into vtpm_proxy_fops_read(), and sees size_t len set
> from ((struct proxy_dev *)filp->private_data)->req_len, and it performs
> range checking perhaps triggered by the "count" comparison:
>
>
> static ssize_t vtpm_proxy_fops_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>                                     size_t count, loff_t *off)
> {
>         struct proxy_dev *proxy_dev = filp->private_data;
>         size_t len;
>         ...
>         len = proxy_dev->req_len;
>
>         if (count < len) {
>                 ...
>                 return -EIO;
>         }
>
>         rc = copy_to_user(buf, proxy_dev->buffer, len);
>         memset(proxy_dev->buffer, 0, len);
>
>
> I haven't been able to reproduce the specific cause of why GCC decided to
> do the bounds checking, but it's not an unreasonable thing to check for,
> just for robustness.

Ok, I think this is what's happening:


$ cat bogus_bounds_warning_small.i
struct proxy_dev {
 unsigned char buffer[4096];
};

long state;

void vtpm_proxy_fops_read(struct proxy_dev *proxy_dev, unsigned int len) {
  /*
   * sz == SIZE_MAX == -1  because the compiler can't prove whether proxy_dev
   * points to an array or a single object and we're using the type-0 version.
   */
  int sz = __builtin_object_size(proxy_dev->buffer, 0);
  _Bool check_result;

  /* always false but must keep this check to trigger the warning */
  if (sz >= 0 && sz < len) {
    check_result = 0;
  /*
   * compiler forks the rest of the function starting at this check, probably
   * because it sees that a branch further down has a condition that depends on
   * which branch we took here
   */
  } else if (len > 0x7fffffff/*INT_MAX*/) {
    check_result = 0;
  } else {
    check_result = 1;
  }
  /*
   * this part is basically duplicated, it is compiled once for the
   * len<=0x7fffffff case and once for the len>0x7fffffff case
   */
  __builtin_memset(proxy_dev->buffer, 0, len);

  if (check_result)
    state |= 1;
}
$ gcc -ggdb -std=gnu89 -Warray-bounds -m32 -mregparm=3 -fno-pic
-march=i686 -O2 -c -o bogus_bounds_warning.o
bogus_bounds_warning_small.i
bogus_bounds_warning_small.i: In function ‘vtpm_proxy_fops_read’:
bogus_bounds_warning_small.i:32:3: warning: ‘__builtin_memset’
specified bound between 2147483648 and 4294967295 exceeds maximum
object size 2147483647 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
   32 |   __builtin_memset(proxy_dev->buffer, 0, len);
      |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Here's what the CFG of the generated machine code looks like - you can
see how the function is split up starting at the "len > 0x7fffffff"
check: https://var.thejh.net/gcc_bounds_warning_cfg.png

(You can also see how the two copies of __builtin_memset() generate
some pretty gross and bloated code...)