From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: "Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 23:05:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb38655c-2107-bda6-2fa8-f5e1e97eab14@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202209220845.2F7A050@keescook>
On 9/22/22 17:55, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 09:10:56AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 22.09.22 um 05:10 schrieb Kees Cook:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This series fixes up the cases where callers of ksize() use it to
>> > opportunistically grow their buffer sizes, which can run afoul of the
>> > __alloc_size hinting that CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
>> > use to perform dynamic buffer bounds checking.
>>
>> Good cleanup, but one question: What other use cases we have for ksize()
>> except the opportunistically growth of buffers?
>
> The remaining cases all seem to be using it as a "do we need to resize
> yet?" check, where they don't actually track the allocation size
> themselves and want to just depend on the slab cache to answer it. This
> is most clearly seen in the igp code:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c?h=v6.0-rc6#n1204
>
> My "solution" there kind of side-steps it, and leaves ksize() as-is:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220922031013.2150682-8-keescook@chromium.org/
>
> The more correct solution would be to add per-v_idx size tracking,
> similar to the other changes I sent:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220922031013.2150682-11-keescook@chromium.org/
>
> I wonder if perhaps I should just migrate some of this code to using
> something like struct membuf.
>
>> Off hand I can't see any.
>>
>> So when this patch set is about to clean up this use case it should probably
>> also take care to remove ksize() or at least limit it so that it won't be
>> used for this use case in the future.
>
> Yeah, my goal would be to eliminate ksize(), and it seems possible if
> other cases are satisfied with tracking their allocation sizes directly.
I think we could leave ksize() to determine the size without a need for
external tracking, but from now on forbid callers from using that hint to
overflow the allocation size they actually requested? Once we remove the
kasan/kfence hooks in ksize() that make the current kinds of usage possible,
we should be able to catch any offenders of the new semantics that would appear?
> -Kees
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-22 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-22 3:10 [PATCH 00/12] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 01/12] " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 11:12 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-09-23 1:17 ` Feng Tang
2022-09-23 18:50 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 02/12] skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size Kees Cook
2022-09-22 19:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 03/12] net: ipa: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 13:45 ` Alex Elder
2022-09-22 15:57 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 04/12] btrfs: send: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 13:30 ` David Sterba
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 05/12] dma-buf: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 06/12] coredump: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 07/12] igb: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 15:56 ` Ruhl, Michael J
2022-09-22 16:00 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 08/12] openvswitch: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 09/12] x86/microcode/AMD: Track patch allocation size explicitly Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 10/12] iwlwifi: Track scan_cmd " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 4:18 ` Kalle Valo
2022-09-22 5:26 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 11/12] slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions Kees Cook
2022-09-22 9:23 ` Miguel Ojeda
2022-09-22 15:56 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 17:41 ` Miguel Ojeda
2022-09-22 3:10 ` [PATCH 12/12] slab: Restore __alloc_size attribute to __kmalloc_track_caller Kees Cook
2022-09-22 7:10 ` [PATCH 00/12] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() Christian König
2022-09-22 15:55 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 21:05 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2022-09-22 21:49 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 9:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
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