Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:

> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> So, as found already, the position in the usercopy check needs to be
>>> bumped down by red_left_pad, which is what Michael's fix does, so I'll
>>> include it in the next version.
>>
>> Actually, after some offline chats, I think this is better, since it
>> makes sure the ptr doesn't end up somewhere weird before we start the
>> calculations. This leaves the pointer as-is, but explicitly handles
>> the redzone on the offset instead, with no wrapping, etc:
>>
>>         /* Find offset within object. */
>>         offset = (ptr - page_address(page)) % s->size;
>>
>> +       /* Adjust for redzone and reject if within the redzone. */
>> +       if (s->flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE) {
>> +               if (offset < s->red_left_pad)
>> +                       return s->name;
>> +               offset -= s->red_left_pad;
>> +       }
>> +
>>         /* Allow address range falling entirely within object size. */
>>         if (offset <= s->object_size && n <= s->object_size - offset)
>>                 return NULL;
>
> That fixes the case for me in kstrndup(), which allows the system to boot.

Ugh, no it doesn't, booted the wrong kernel.

I don't see the oops in strndup_user(), but instead get:

usercopy: kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to d000000003610028 (cfq_io_cq) (88 bytes)
CPU: 11 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-00098-g09d9556ae5d1-dirty #65
Call Trace:
[c0000001fb087bf0] [c0000000009bdbe8] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable)
[c0000001fb087c30] [c00000000029cf44] __check_object_size+0x74/0x320
[c0000001fb087cb0] [c00000000005d4d0] copy_from_user+0x60/0xd4
[c0000001fb087cf0] [c0000000008b38f4] __get_filter+0x74/0x160
[c0000001fb087d30] [c0000000008b408c] sk_attach_filter+0x2c/0xc0
[c0000001fb087d60] [c000000000871c34] sock_setsockopt+0x954/0xc00
[c0000001fb087dd0] [c00000000086ac44] SyS_setsockopt+0x134/0x150
[c0000001fb087e30] [c000000000009260] system_call+0x38/0x108
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009

cheers