Re: [PATCH] vfio/type1: fix cap_migration information leak

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue,  1 Aug 2023 11:53:52 -0400
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix an information leak where an uninitialized hole in struct
> vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration on the stack is exposed to userspace.
> 
> The definition of struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration contains a hole as
> shown in this pahole(1) output:
> 
>   struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration {
>           struct vfio_info_cap_header header;              /*     0     8 */
>           __u32                      flags;                /*     8     4 */
> 
>           /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
> 
>           __u64                      pgsize_bitmap;        /*    16     8 */
>           __u64                      max_dirty_bitmap_size; /*    24     8 */
> 
>           /* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */
>           /* sum members: 28, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
>           /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
>   };
> 
> The cap_mig variable is filled in without initializing the hole:
> 
>   static int vfio_iommu_migration_build_caps(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>                          struct vfio_info_cap *caps)
>   {
>       struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration cap_mig;
> 
>       cap_mig.header.id = VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1_INFO_CAP_MIGRATION;
>       cap_mig.header.version = 1;
> 
>       cap_mig.flags = 0;
>       /* support minimum pgsize */
>       cap_mig.pgsize_bitmap = (size_t)1 << __ffs(iommu->pgsize_bitmap);
>       cap_mig.max_dirty_bitmap_size = DIRTY_BITMAP_SIZE_MAX;
> 
>       return vfio_info_add_capability(caps, &cap_mig.header, sizeof(cap_mig));
>   }
> 
> The structure is then copied to a temporary location on the heap. At this point
> it's already too late and ioctl(VFIO_IOMMU_GET_INFO) copies it to userspace
> later:
> 
>   int vfio_info_add_capability(struct vfio_info_cap *caps,
>                    struct vfio_info_cap_header *cap, size_t size)
>   {
>       struct vfio_info_cap_header *header;
> 
>       header = vfio_info_cap_add(caps, size, cap->id, cap->version);
>       if (IS_ERR(header))
>           return PTR_ERR(header);
> 
>       memcpy(header + 1, cap + 1, size - sizeof(*header));
> 
>       return 0;
>   }
> 
> This issue was found by code inspection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to vfio next branch for v6.6.  I'll give Jason a little more
time to ack "[PATCH v3] vfio: align capability structures".  Thanks!

Alex

> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index ebe0ad31d0b0..d662aa9d1b4b 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -2732,7 +2732,7 @@ static int vfio_iommu_iova_build_caps(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>  static int vfio_iommu_migration_build_caps(struct vfio_iommu *iommu,
>  					   struct vfio_info_cap *caps)
>  {
> -	struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration cap_mig;
> +	struct vfio_iommu_type1_info_cap_migration cap_mig = {};
>  
>  	cap_mig.header.id = VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1_INFO_CAP_MIGRATION;
>  	cap_mig.header.version = 1;