[PATCH] fortify: Capture __bos() results in const temp vars

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Oct 28 2022 - 19:10:40 EST


In two recent run-time memcpy() bound checking bug reports (NFS[1] and
JFS[2]), the _detection_ was working correctly (in the sense that the
requested copy size was larger than the destination field size), but
the _warning text_ was showing the destination field size as SIZE_MAX
("unknown size"). This should be impossible, since the detection function
will explicitly give up if the destination field size is unknown. For
example, the JFS warning was:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 132) of single field "ip->i_link" at fs/jfs/namei.c:950 (size 18446744073709551615)

Other cases of this warning (e.g.[3]) have reported correctly,
and the reproducer only happens under GCC (at least 10.2 and 12.1),
so this currently appears to be a GCC bug. Explicitly capturing the
__builtin_object_size() results in const temporary variables fixes the
report. For example, the JFS reproducer now correctly reports the field
size (128):

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 132) of single field "ip->i_link" at fs/jfs/namei.c:950 (size 128)

Examination of the .text delta (which is otherwise identical), shows
the literal value used in the report changing:

- mov $0xffffffffffffffff,%rcx
+ mov $0x80,%ecx

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y0zEzZwhOxTDcBTB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=23d613df5259b977dac1696bec77f61a85890e3d
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202210110948.26b43120-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx/

Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fortify-string.h | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fortify-string.h b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
index 4029fe368a4f..0f00a551939a 100644
--- a/include/linux/fortify-string.h
+++ b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
@@ -441,13 +441,18 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE bool fortify_memcpy_chk(__kernel_size_t size,

#define __fortify_memcpy_chk(p, q, size, p_size, q_size, \
p_size_field, q_size_field, op) ({ \
- size_t __fortify_size = (size_t)(size); \
- WARN_ONCE(fortify_memcpy_chk(__fortify_size, p_size, q_size, \
- p_size_field, q_size_field, #op), \
+ const size_t __fortify_size = (size_t)(size); \
+ const size_t __p_size = (p_size); \
+ const size_t __q_size = (q_size); \
+ const size_t __p_size_field = (p_size_field); \
+ const size_t __q_size_field = (q_size_field); \
+ WARN_ONCE(fortify_memcpy_chk(__fortify_size, __p_size, \
+ __q_size, __p_size_field, \
+ __q_size_field, #op), \
#op ": detected field-spanning write (size %zu) of single %s (size %zu)\n", \
__fortify_size, \
"field \"" #p "\" at " __FILE__ ":" __stringify(__LINE__), \
- p_size_field); \
+ __p_size_field); \
__underlying_##op(p, q, __fortify_size); \
})

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