RE: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes

From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Sargun Dhillon' <sargun@sargun.me>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:56:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <067f494d55c14753a31657f958cb0a6e@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200611110630.GB30103@ircssh-2.c.rugged-nimbus-611.internal>

From: Sargun Dhillon
> Sent: 11 June 2020 12:07
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes
> 
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:01:14PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 07:59:55PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:12:38AM +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> > > > As an aside, all of this junk should be dropped:
> > > > +	ret = get_user(size, &uaddfd->size);
> > > > +	if (ret)
> > > > +		return ret;
> > > > +
> > > > +	ret = copy_struct_from_user(&addfd, sizeof(addfd), uaddfd, size);
> > > > +	if (ret)
> > > > +		return ret;
> > > >
> > > > and the size member of the seccomp_notif_addfd struct. I brought this up
> > > > off-list with Tycho that ioctls have the size of the struct embedded in them. We
> > > > should just use that. The ioctl definition is based on this[2]:
> > > > #define _IOC(dir,type,nr,size) \
> > > > 	(((dir)  << _IOC_DIRSHIFT) | \
> > > > 	 ((type) << _IOC_TYPESHIFT) | \
> > > > 	 ((nr)   << _IOC_NRSHIFT) | \
> > > > 	 ((size) << _IOC_SIZESHIFT))
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We should just use copy_from_user for now. In the future, we can either
> > > > introduce new ioctl names for new structs, or extract the size dynamically from
> > > > the ioctl (and mask it out on the switch statement in seccomp_notify_ioctl.
> > >
> > > Yeah, that seems reasonable. Here's the diff for that part:
> >
> > Why does it matter that the ioctl() has the size of the struct embedded
> > within? Afaik, the kernel itself doesn't do anything with that size. It
> > merely checks that the size is not pathological and it does so at
> > compile time.
> >
> > #ifdef __CHECKER__
> > #define _IOC_TYPECHECK(t) (sizeof(t))
> > #else
> > /* provoke compile error for invalid uses of size argument */
> > extern unsigned int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC;
> > #define _IOC_TYPECHECK(t) \
> > 	((sizeof(t) == sizeof(t[1]) && \
> > 	  sizeof(t) < (1 << _IOC_SIZEBITS)) ? \
> > 	  sizeof(t) : __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC)
> > #endif
> >
> > The size itself is not verified at runtime. copy_struct_from_user()
> > still makes sense at least if we're going to allow expanding the struct
> > in the future.
> Right, but if we simply change our headers and extend the struct, it will break
> all existing programs compiled against those headers. In order to avoid that, if
> we intend on extending this struct by appending to it, we need to have a
> backwards compatibility mechanism. Just having copy_struct_from_user isn't
> enough. The data structure either must be fixed size, or we need a way to handle
> multiple ioctl numbers derived from headers with different sized struct arguments
> 
> The two approaches I see are:
> 1. use more indirection. This has previous art in drm[1]. That's look
> something like this:
> 
> struct seccomp_notif_addfd_ptr {
> 	__u64 size;
> 	__u64 addr;
> }
> 
> ... And then it'd be up to us to dereference the addr and copy struct from user.

Do not go down that route. It isn't worth the pain.

You should also assume that userspace might have a compile-time check
on the buffer length (I've written one - not hard) and that the kernel
might (in the future - or on a BSD kernel) be doing the user copies
for you.

Also, if you change the structure you almost certainly need to
change the name of the ioctl cmd as well as its value.
Otherwise a recompiled program will pass the new cmd value (and
hopefully the right sized buffer) but it won't have initialised
the buffer properly.
This is likely to lead to unexpected behaviour.

	David

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