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[01/32] netlink: Avoid memcpy() across flexible array boundary

Message ID 20220504014440.3697851-2-keescook@chromium.org (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere
Delegated to: Paul Moore
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Series Introduce flexible array struct memcpy() helpers | expand

Commit Message

Kees Cook May 4, 2022, 1:44 a.m. UTC 
In preparation for run-time memcpy() bounds checking, split the nlmsg
copying for error messages (which crosses a previous unspecified flexible
array boundary) in half. Avoids the future run-time warning:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" (size 16)

Creates an explicit flexible array at the end of nlmsghdr for the payload,
named "nlmsg_payload". There is no impact on UAPI; the sizeof(struct
nlmsghdr) does not change, but now the compiler can better reason about
where things are being copied.

Fixed-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d7251d92-150b-5346-6237-52afc154bb00@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 1 +
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c     | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Gustavo A. R. Silva May 4, 2022, 3:31 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 06:44:10PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for run-time memcpy() bounds checking, split the nlmsg
> copying for error messages (which crosses a previous unspecified flexible
> array boundary) in half. Avoids the future run-time warning:
> 
> memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&errmsg->msg" (size 16)
> 
> Creates an explicit flexible array at the end of nlmsghdr for the payload,
> named "nlmsg_payload". There is no impact on UAPI; the sizeof(struct
> nlmsghdr) does not change, but now the compiler can better reason about
> where things are being copied.
> 
> Fixed-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d7251d92-150b-5346-6237-52afc154bb00@rasmusvillemoes.dk
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 1 +
>  net/netlink/af_netlink.c     | 5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
> index 855dffb4c1c3..47f9342d51bc 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr {
>  	__u16		nlmsg_flags;	/* Additional flags */
>  	__u32		nlmsg_seq;	/* Sequence number */
>  	__u32		nlmsg_pid;	/* Sending process port ID */
> +	__u8		nlmsg_payload[];/* Contents of message */
>  };
>  
>  /* Flags values */
> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> index 1b5a9c2e1c29..09346aee1022 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> @@ -2445,7 +2445,10 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
>  			  NLMSG_ERROR, payload, flags);
>  	errmsg = nlmsg_data(rep);
>  	errmsg->error = err;
> -	memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
> +	errmsg->msg = *nlh;
> +	if (payload > sizeof(*errmsg))
> +		memcpy(errmsg->msg.nlmsg_payload, nlh->nlmsg_payload,
> +		       nlh->nlmsg_len - sizeof(*nlh));

They have nlmsg_len()[1] for the length of the payload without the header:

/**
 * nlmsg_len - length of message payload
 * @nlh: netlink message header
 */
static inline int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
{
	return nlh->nlmsg_len - NLMSG_HDRLEN;
}

(would that function use some sanitization, though? what if nlmsg_len is
somehow manipulated to be less than NLMSG_HDRLEN?...)

Also, it seems there is at least one more instance of this same issue:

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
index 16ae92054baa..d06184b94af5 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
@@ -1723,7 +1723,8 @@ call_ad(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb,
                                  nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLMSG_ERROR, payload, 0);
                errmsg = nlmsg_data(rep);
                errmsg->error = ret;
-               memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, nlh->nlmsg_len);
+               errmsg->msg = *nlh;
+               memcpy(errmsg->msg.nlmsg_payload, nlh->nlmsg_payload, nlmsg_len(nlh));
                cmdattr = (void *)&errmsg->msg + min_len;

                ret = nla_parse(cda, IPSET_ATTR_CMD_MAX, cmdattr,

--
Gustavo

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc5/source/include/net/netlink.h#L577
Kees Cook May 4, 2022, 3:37 a.m. UTC | #2 
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:31:05PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 06:44:10PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> > index 1b5a9c2e1c29..09346aee1022 100644
> > --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> > +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> > @@ -2445,7 +2445,10 @@ void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
> >  			  NLMSG_ERROR, payload, flags);
> >  	errmsg = nlmsg_data(rep);
> >  	errmsg->error = err;
> > -	memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
> > +	errmsg->msg = *nlh;
> > +	if (payload > sizeof(*errmsg))
> > +		memcpy(errmsg->msg.nlmsg_payload, nlh->nlmsg_payload,
> > +		       nlh->nlmsg_len - sizeof(*nlh));
> 
> They have nlmsg_len()[1] for the length of the payload without the header:
> 
> /**
>  * nlmsg_len - length of message payload
>  * @nlh: netlink message header
>  */
> static inline int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
> {
> 	return nlh->nlmsg_len - NLMSG_HDRLEN;
> }

Oh, hm, yeah, that would be much cleaner. The relationship between
"payload" and nlmsg_len is confusing in here. :)

So, this should be simpler:

-	memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
+	errmsg->msg = *nlh;
+	memcpy(errmsg->msg.nlmsg_payload, nlh->nlmsg_payload, nlmsg_len(nlh));

It's actually this case that triggered my investigation in __bos(1)'s
misbehavior around sub-structs, since this case wasn't getting silenced:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101832

It still feels like it should be possible to get this right without
splitting the memcpy, though. Hmpf.

> (would that function use some sanitization, though? what if nlmsg_len is
> somehow manipulated to be less than NLMSG_HDRLEN?...)

Maybe something like:

static inline int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
{
	if (WARN_ON(nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN))
		return 0;
	return nlh->nlmsg_len - NLMSG_HDRLEN;
}

> Also, it seems there is at least one more instance of this same issue:
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> index 16ae92054baa..d06184b94af5 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c
> @@ -1723,7 +1723,8 @@ call_ad(struct net *net, struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb,
>                                   nlh->nlmsg_seq, NLMSG_ERROR, payload, 0);
>                 errmsg = nlmsg_data(rep);
>                 errmsg->error = ret;
> -               memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, nlh->nlmsg_len);
> +               errmsg->msg = *nlh;
> +               memcpy(errmsg->msg.nlmsg_payload, nlh->nlmsg_payload, nlmsg_len(nlh));

Ah, yes, nice catch!

>                 cmdattr = (void *)&errmsg->msg + min_len;
> 
>                 ret = nla_parse(cda, IPSET_ATTR_CMD_MAX, cmdattr,
> 
> --
> Gustavo
> 
> [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.18-rc5/source/include/net/netlink.h#L577
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Patch

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
index 855dffb4c1c3..47f9342d51bc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@  struct nlmsghdr {
 	__u16		nlmsg_flags;	/* Additional flags */
 	__u32		nlmsg_seq;	/* Sequence number */
 	__u32		nlmsg_pid;	/* Sending process port ID */
+	__u8		nlmsg_payload[];/* Contents of message */
 };
 
 /* Flags values */
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 1b5a9c2e1c29..09346aee1022 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2445,7 +2445,10 @@  void netlink_ack(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, int err,
 			  NLMSG_ERROR, payload, flags);
 	errmsg = nlmsg_data(rep);
 	errmsg->error = err;
-	memcpy(&errmsg->msg, nlh, payload > sizeof(*errmsg) ? nlh->nlmsg_len : sizeof(*nlh));
+	errmsg->msg = *nlh;
+	if (payload > sizeof(*errmsg))
+		memcpy(errmsg->msg.nlmsg_payload, nlh->nlmsg_payload,
+		       nlh->nlmsg_len - sizeof(*nlh));
 
 	if (nlk_has_extack && extack) {
 		if (extack->_msg) {