[PATCH] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Adjust struct fc_nl_event flex array usage

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Sep 21 2022 - 16:52:06 EST


In order to help the compiler reason about the destination buffer in
struct fc_nl_event, add a flexible array member for this purpose.
However, since the header is UAPI, it must not change size or layout, so
a union is used.

The allocation size calculations are also corrected (it was potentially
allocating an extra 8 bytes), and the padding is zeroed to avoid leaking
kernel heap memory contents.

Detected at run-time by the recently added memcpy() bounds checking:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 8) of single field "&event->event_data" at drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c:581 (size 4)

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/42404B5E-198B-4FD3-94D6-5E16CF579EF3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c | 8 +++++---
include/uapi/scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h | 7 +++++--
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
index a2524106206d..0d798f11dc34 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ fc_host_post_fc_event(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u32 event_number,
struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
struct fc_nl_event *event;
const char *name;
- u32 len;
+ size_t len, padding;
int err;

if (!data_buf || data_len < 4)
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ fc_host_post_fc_event(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u32 event_number,
goto send_fail;
}

- len = FC_NL_MSGALIGN(sizeof(*event) + data_len);
+ len = FC_NL_MSGALIGN(sizeof(*event) - sizeof(event->event_data) + data_len);

skb = nlmsg_new(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb) {
@@ -578,7 +578,9 @@ fc_host_post_fc_event(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u32 event_number,
event->event_num = event_number;
event->event_code = event_code;
if (data_len)
- memcpy(&event->event_data, data_buf, data_len);
+ memcpy(event->event_data_flex, data_buf, data_len);
+ padding = len - offsetof(typeof(*event), event_data_flex) - data_len;
+ memset(event->event_data_flex + data_len, 0, padding);

nlmsg_multicast(scsi_nl_sock, skb, 0, SCSI_NL_GRP_FC_EVENTS,
GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/include/uapi/scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h b/include/uapi/scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h
index 7535253f1a96..b46e9cbeb001 100644
--- a/include/uapi/scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h
+++ b/include/uapi/scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
* FC Transport Broadcast Event Message :
* FC_NL_ASYNC_EVENT
*
- * Note: if Vendor Unique message, &event_data will be start of
+ * Note: if Vendor Unique message, event_data_flex will be start of
* vendor unique payload, and the length of the payload is
* per event_datalen
*
@@ -50,7 +50,10 @@ struct fc_nl_event {
__u16 event_datalen;
__u32 event_num;
__u32 event_code;
- __u32 event_data;
+ union {
+ __u32 event_data;
+ __DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(__u8, event_data_flex);
+ };
} __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(__u64))));


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