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* [PATCH] slub: Actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning
@ 2020-10-08 23:34 Kees Cook
  2020-10-09 12:12 ` Marco Elver
  2020-10-15  2:36 ` Waiman Long
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2020-10-08 23:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Kees Cook, Marco Elver, stable, Pekka Enberg, Waiman Long,
	Christoph Lameter, David Rientjes, Joonsoo Kim, linux-kernel,
	linux-mm

It turns out that SLUB redzoning ("slub_debug=Z") checks from
s->object_size rather than from s->inuse (which is normally bumped to
make room for the freelist pointer), so a cache created with an object
size less than 24 would have their freelist pointer written beyond
s->object_size, causing the redzone to corrupt the freelist pointer.
This was very visible with "slub_debug=ZF":

BUG test (Tainted: G    B            ): Redzone overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

INFO: 0xffff957ead1c05de-0xffff957ead1c05df @offset=1502. First byte 0x1a instead of 0xbb
INFO: Slab 0xffffef3950b47000 objects=170 used=170 fp=0x0000000000000000 flags=0x8000000000000200
INFO: Object 0xffff957ead1c05d8 @offset=1496 fp=0xffff957ead1c0620

Redzone (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb               ........
Object  (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 f6 f4 a5               ........
Redzone (____ptrval____): 40 1d e8 1a aa                        @....
Padding (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00               ........

Adjust the offset to stay within s->object_size.

(Note that there appear to be no such small-sized caches in the kernel
currently.)

Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200807160627.GA1420741@elver.google.com/
Fixes: 89b83f282d8b (slub: avoid redzone when choosing freepointer location)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 mm/slub.c | 17 +++++------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 68c02b2eecd9..979f5da26992 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3641,7 +3641,6 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
 {
 	slab_flags_t flags = s->flags;
 	unsigned int size = s->object_size;
-	unsigned int freepointer_area;
 	unsigned int order;
 
 	/*
@@ -3650,13 +3649,6 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
 	 * the possible location of the free pointer.
 	 */
 	size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *));
-	/*
-	 * This is the area of the object where a freepointer can be
-	 * safely written. If redzoning adds more to the inuse size, we
-	 * can't use that portion for writing the freepointer, so
-	 * s->offset must be limited within this for the general case.
-	 */
-	freepointer_area = size;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
 	/*
@@ -3682,7 +3674,7 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
 
 	/*
 	 * With that we have determined the number of bytes in actual use
-	 * by the object. This is the potential offset to the free pointer.
+	 * by the object and redzoning.
 	 */
 	s->inuse = size;
 
@@ -3694,7 +3686,8 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
 		 * kmem_cache_free.
 		 *
 		 * This is the case if we do RCU, have a constructor or
-		 * destructor or are poisoning the objects.
+		 * destructor, are poisoning the objects, or are
+		 * redzoning an object smaller than sizeof(void *).
 		 *
 		 * The assumption that s->offset >= s->inuse means free
 		 * pointer is outside of the object is used in the
@@ -3703,13 +3696,13 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
 		 */
 		s->offset = size;
 		size += sizeof(void *);
-	} else if (freepointer_area > sizeof(void *)) {
+	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Store freelist pointer near middle of object to keep
 		 * it away from the edges of the object to avoid small
 		 * sized over/underflows from neighboring allocations.
 		 */
-		s->offset = ALIGN(freepointer_area / 2, sizeof(void *));
+		s->offset = ALIGN_DOWN(s->object_size / 2, sizeof(void *));
 	}
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
-- 
2.25.1



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