From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>, Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>,
Adam Nichols <adam@grimm-co.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] seq_file: Unconditionally use vmalloc for buffer
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:43:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202103151336.78360DB34D@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YE+oZkSVNyaONMd9@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 06:33:10PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:48:51AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The sysfs interface to seq_file continues to be rather fragile, as seen
> > with some recent exploits[1]. Move the seq_file buffer to the vmap area
> > (while retaining the accounting flag), since it has guard pages that
> > will catch and stop linear overflows. This seems justified given that
> > seq_file already uses kvmalloc(), is almost always using a PAGE_SIZE or
> > larger allocation, has allocations are normally short lived, and is not
> > normally on a performance critical path.
>
> You are attacking the wrong part of it. Is there any reason for having
> seq_get_buf() public in the first place?
Completely agreed. seq_get_buf() should be totally ripped out.
Unfortunately, this is going to be a long road because of sysfs's ATTR
stuff, there are something like 5000 callers, and the entire API was
designed to avoid refactoring all those callers from
sysfs_kf_seq_show().
However, since I also need to entirely rewrite the sysfs vs kobj APIs[1]
for CFI, I'm working on a plan to fix it all at once, but based on my
experience refactoring the timer struct, it's going to be a very painful
and long road.
So, in the meantime, I'd like to make this change so we can get bounds
checking for free on seq_file (since it's almost always PAGE_SIZE
anyway).
-Kees
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202006112217.2E6CE093@keescook/
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-15 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-15 17:48 Kees Cook
2021-03-15 18:33 ` Al Viro
2021-03-15 20:43 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-03-16 7:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-16 12:43 ` Al Viro
2021-03-16 12:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-16 13:01 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-16 19:18 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-17 10:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-16 8:31 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-16 19:08 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-17 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-17 13:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-17 14:44 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-17 14:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-17 15:20 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-17 15:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-17 15:48 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-17 21:30 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-18 8:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-18 15:51 ` Kees Cook
2021-03-18 17:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-03-19 14:07 ` [seq_file] 5fd6060e50: stress-ng.eventfd.ops_per_sec -49.1% regression kernel test robot
2021-03-19 19:31 ` Kees Cook
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