Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] virtio console: Harden port adding

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:57:17PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> The ADD_PORT operation reads and sanity checks the port id multiple
> times from the untrusted host. This is not safe because a malicious
> host could change it between reads.
> 
> Read the port id only once and cache it for subsequent uses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


I suspect anyone worried about this kind of thing already uses a bounce
buffer. No?  The patch itself makes the code more readable, except maybe
for the READ_ONCE thing.


> ---
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index f4fd5fe7cd3a..6599c2956ba4 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -1563,10 +1563,13 @@ static void handle_control_message(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>  	struct port *port;
>  	size_t name_size;
>  	int err;
> +	unsigned id;
>  
>  	cpkt = (struct virtio_console_control *)(buf->buf + buf->offset);
>  
> -	port = find_port_by_id(portdev, virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id));
> +	/* Make sure the host cannot change id under us */
> +	id = virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, READ_ONCE(cpkt->id));
> +	port = find_port_by_id(portdev, id);
>  	if (!port &&
>  	    cpkt->event != cpu_to_virtio16(vdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_ADD)) {
>  		/* No valid header at start of buffer.  Drop it. */
> @@ -1583,15 +1586,14 @@ static void handle_control_message(struct virtio_device *vdev,
>  			send_control_msg(port, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_READY, 1);
>  			break;
>  		}
> -		if (virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id) >=
> -		    portdev->max_nr_ports) {
> +		if (id >= portdev->max_nr_ports) {
>  			dev_warn(&portdev->vdev->dev,
>  				"Request for adding port with "
>  				"out-of-bound id %u, max. supported id: %u\n",
>  				cpkt->id, portdev->max_nr_ports - 1);
>  			break;
>  		}
> -		add_port(portdev, virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id));
> +		add_port(portdev, id);
>  		break;
>  	case VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_REMOVE:
>  		unplug_port(port);
> -- 
> 2.39.0