[PATCH 2/5] libsepol/cil: Detect degenerate inheritance and exit with an error

[James Carter <jwcart2@gmail.com>]

A CIL policy with inheritance of the form
...
(blockinherit ba)
(block ba
  (block b1
    (blockinherit bb)
  )
  (block bb
    (block b2
      (blockinherit bc)
    )
    (block bc
      (block b3
        (blockinherit bd)
      )
      (block bd
        (block b4
          (blockinherit be)
        )
        (block be
        ...
will require creating 2^depth copies of the block at the bottom of
the inheritance chain. This pattern can quickly consume all the
memory of the system compiling this policy.

The depth of the inheritance chain can be found be walking the
tree up through the parents and noting how many of the parent
blocks have been inherited. The number of times a block will be
copied is found by counting the list of nodes in the "bi_nodes"
list of the block. To minimize legitimate policies from being
falsely detected as being degenerate, both the depth and breadth
(number of copies) are checked and an error is given only if both
exceed the limits (depth >= 12 and breadth >= 4096).

This problem was found by the secilc-fuzzer.

Signed-off-by: James Carter <jwcart2@gmail.com>
---
 libsepol/cil/src/cil_internal.h    |  2 ++
 libsepol/cil/src/cil_resolve_ast.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libsepol/cil/src/cil_internal.h b/libsepol/cil/src/cil_internal.h
index 9bdcbdd0..74e0b34d 100644
--- a/libsepol/cil/src/cil_internal.h
+++ b/libsepol/cil/src/cil_internal.h
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
 
 #define CIL_MAX_NAME_LENGTH 2048
 
+#define CIL_DEGENERATE_INHERITANCE_DEPTH 12
+#define CIL_DEGENERATE_INHERITANCE_BREADTH (0x1 << CIL_DEGENERATE_INHERITANCE_DEPTH)
 
 enum cil_pass {
 	CIL_PASS_INIT = 0,
diff --git a/libsepol/cil/src/cil_resolve_ast.c b/libsepol/cil/src/cil_resolve_ast.c
index 5389df43..68909647 100644
--- a/libsepol/cil/src/cil_resolve_ast.c
+++ b/libsepol/cil/src/cil_resolve_ast.c
@@ -2410,6 +2410,55 @@ exit:
 	return rc;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Detect degenerate inheritance of the form:
+ * ...
+ * (blockinherit ba)
+ * (block ba
+ *    (block b1
+ *      (blockinherit bb)
+ *    )
+ *    (block bb
+ *      (block b2
+ *        (blockinherit bc)
+ *      )
+ *      (block bc
+ *      ...
+ */
+static int cil_check_for_degenerate_inheritance(struct cil_tree_node *current)
+{
+	struct cil_block *block = current->data;
+	struct cil_tree_node *node;
+	struct cil_list_item *item;
+	unsigned depth;
+	unsigned breadth = 0;
+
+	cil_list_for_each(item, block->bi_nodes) {
+		breadth++;
+	}
+
+	if (breadth >= CIL_DEGENERATE_INHERITANCE_BREADTH) {
+		node = current->parent;
+		depth = 0;
+		while (node && node->flavor != CIL_ROOT) {
+			if (node->flavor == CIL_BLOCK) {
+				block = node->data;
+				if (block->bi_nodes != NULL) {
+					depth++;
+				}
+			}
+			node = node->parent;
+		}
+
+		if (depth >= CIL_DEGENERATE_INHERITANCE_DEPTH) {
+			cil_tree_log(current, CIL_ERR, "Degenerate inheritance detected (depth=%u, breadth=%u)", depth, breadth);
+			return SEPOL_ERR;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return SEPOL_OK;
+}
+
 int cil_resolve_blockinherit_copy(struct cil_tree_node *current, void *extra_args)
 {
 	struct cil_block *block = current->data;
@@ -2426,6 +2475,11 @@ int cil_resolve_blockinherit_copy(struct cil_tree_node *current, void *extra_arg
 
 	db = args->db;
 
+	rc = cil_check_for_degenerate_inheritance(current);
+	if (rc != SEPOL_OK) {
+		goto exit;
+	}
+
 	// Make sure this is the original block and not a merged block from a blockinherit
 	if (current != block->datum.nodes->head->data) {
 		rc = SEPOL_OK;
-- 
2.26.3