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block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media

Message ID 20240606052754.3462514-1-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series block: initialize integrity buffer to zero before writing it to media | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig June 6, 2024, 5:27 a.m. UTC
Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads
to random kernel memory being written media.  For PI metadata this is
limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated metadata,
but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel memory.

Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.

Fixes: 7ba1ba12eeef ("block: Block layer data integrity support")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 block/bio-integrity.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Martin K. Petersen June 6, 2024, 2:08 p.m. UTC | #1
Christoph,

> Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which
> leads to random kernel memory being written media. For PI metadata
> this is limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated
> metadata, but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel
> memory.

We do explicitly set the app_tag to 0 for PI so it's only non-PI
metadata that's affected.

> Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Christoph Hellwig June 6, 2024, 2:10 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:08:20AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Christoph,
> 
> > Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which
> > leads to random kernel memory being written media. For PI metadata
> > this is limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated
> > metadata, but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel
> > memory.
> 
> We do explicitly set the app_tag to 0 for PI so it's only non-PI
> metadata that's affected.

Ah, true.  I could switch to then just zeroing the buffer in
->generate_fn for non-PI metadata only.  That's actually the
first version I prototyped.
Christoph Hellwig June 7, 2024, 5:40 a.m. UTC | #3
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 04:10:17PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We do explicitly set the app_tag to 0 for PI so it's only non-PI
> > metadata that's affected.
> 
> Ah, true.  I could switch to then just zeroing the buffer in
> ->generate_fn for non-PI metadata only.  That's actually the
> first version I prototyped.

So that would cause a fair amout of conflicts with moving the integrity
information to the limits.  So unless someone objets I'd like to go
with this simple version, and with that series we can then easily
relax the zeroing check to only cover the non-PI case.
Chaitanya Kulkarni June 10, 2024, 2:51 a.m. UTC | #4
On 6/5/2024 10:27 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Metadata added by bio_integrity_prep is using plain kmalloc, which leads
> to random kernel memory being written media.  For PI metadata this is
> limited to the app tag that isn't used by kernel generated metadata,
> but for non-PI metadata the entire buffer leaks kernel memory.
> 
> Fix this by adding the __GFP_ZERO flag to allocations for writes.
> 
> Fixes: 7ba1ba12eeef ("block: Block layer data integrity support")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@lst.de>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>

-ck
Kanchan Joshi June 10, 2024, 10:39 a.m. UTC | #5
On 6/7/2024 11:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   So unless someone objets I'd like to go
> with this simple version, and with that series we can then easily
> relax the zeroing check to only cover the non-PI case.

Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/block/bio-integrity.c b/block/bio-integrity.c
index 2e3e8e04961eae..af7f71d16114de 100644
--- a/block/bio-integrity.c
+++ b/block/bio-integrity.c
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@  bool bio_integrity_prep(struct bio *bio)
 	unsigned long start, end;
 	unsigned int len, nr_pages;
 	unsigned int bytes, offset, i;
+	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOIO;
 
 	if (!bi)
 		return true;
@@ -454,11 +455,19 @@  bool bio_integrity_prep(struct bio *bio)
 		if (!bi->profile->generate_fn ||
 		    !(bi->flags & BLK_INTEGRITY_GENERATE))
 			return true;
+
+		/*
+		 * Zero the memory allocated to not leak uninitialized kernel
+		 * memory to disk.  For PI this only affects the app tag, but
+		 * for non-integrity metadata it affects the entire metadata
+		 * buffer.
+		 */
+		gfp |= __GFP_ZERO;
 	}
 
 	/* Allocate kernel buffer for protection data */
 	len = bio_integrity_bytes(bi, bio_sectors(bio));
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_NOIO);
+	buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
 	if (unlikely(buf == NULL)) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "could not allocate integrity buffer\n");
 		goto err_end_io;