From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] lkdtm: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:06:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190118130648.GA27209@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJvWC0=zym11noj7tOjkDFYvn+wNimwSjcmiWnrCoOVVA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:47:34PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 7:28 AM Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote:
> >
> > From: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>
> >
> > Change snprintf to scnprintf. There are generally two cases where using
> > snprintf causes problems.
> >
> > 1) Uses of size += snprintf(buf, SIZE - size, fmt, ...)
> > In this case, if snprintf would have written more characters than what the
> > buffer size (SIZE) is, then size will end up larger than SIZE. In later
> > uses of snprintf, SIZE - size will result in a negative number, leading
> > to problems. Note that size might already be too large by using
> > size = snprintf before the code reaches a case of size += snprintf.
> >
> > 2) If size is ultimately used as a length parameter for a copy back to user
> > space, then it will potentially allow for a buffer overflow and information
> > disclosure when size is greater than SIZE. When the size is used to index
> > the buffer directly, we can have memory corruption. This also means when
> > size = snprintf... is used, it may also cause problems since size may become
> > large. Copying to userspace is mitigated by the HARDENED_USERCOPY kernel
> > configuration.
> >
> > The solution to these issues is to use scnprintf which returns the number of
> > characters actually written to the buffer, so the size variable will never
> > exceed SIZE.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> > Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
>
> It looks like these are going via individual trees. Greg, can you
> please take this into your drivers-misc tree for lkdtm?
>
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Will do, thanks.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-18 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-12 15:28 [PATCH 1/8] lkdtm: change snprintf to scnprintf for possible overflow Willy Tarreau
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 2/8] libertas: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 1:09 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-15 5:55 ` Kalle Valo
2019-01-15 20:35 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-01-16 16:40 ` Kalle Valo
2019-01-16 17:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 3/8] ocfs2: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 1:14 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 4/8] ASoC: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 1:13 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-15 1:25 ` Nicolin Chen
2019-01-15 3:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: lpfc: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 1:15 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-15 22:41 ` James Smart
2019-03-20 17:39 ` Greg KH
2019-03-20 20:27 ` James Smart
2019-03-21 0:41 ` James Smart
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 6/8] ASoC: intel: skylake: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 1:12 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-16 18:41 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-16 19:35 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2019-01-16 19:51 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 7/8] ASoC: dapm: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-14 14:56 ` Mark Brown
2019-01-15 3:16 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 15:44 ` Mark Brown
2019-01-15 15:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-01-12 15:28 ` [PATCH 8/8] spi: dw: " Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 1:09 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-15 1:02 ` [PATCH 1/8] lkdtm: " Kees Cook
2019-01-15 1:07 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-15 3:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2019-01-15 20:47 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-18 13:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
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