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From: Roman Mashak <mrv@mojatatu.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32_SEL
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:26:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85zhx7zy10.fsf@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJD++hegH4j0ajZNejg8mgcHjqVyjveWj9BFaXwRCV_dQ@mail.gmail.com> (Kees Cook's message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:08:22 -0700")

Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:46 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> wrote:
>> On 2018-08-26 5:56 p.m., Kees Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We should add an nla_policy later.
>>>
>>>
>>> What's the right way to do that for cases like this?
>>
>>
>> Meant something like attached which you alluded-to in your comments
>> would give an upper bound (Max allowed keys is 128).
>
> The problem is that policy doesn't parse the contents: "nkeys"
> determines the size, so we have to both validate minimum size (to be
> sure the location of "nkeys" is valid) and check that the size is at
> least nkeys * struct long. I don't think there is a way to do this
> with the existing policy language.

While at these changes, could you also add and export in UAPI max
allowed keys count, which is currently 128? For example,
TCA_U32_NKEYS_MAX in pkt_cls.h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-27 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-26  5:58 [PATCH] net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32_SEL Kees Cook
2018-08-26  6:15 ` Al Viro
2018-08-26  6:19   ` Kees Cook
2018-08-26 17:30     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-08-26 21:56       ` Kees Cook
2018-08-27 11:46         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-08-27 14:08           ` Kees Cook
2018-08-27 14:26             ` Roman Mashak [this message]
2018-08-26 17:32     ` Al Viro
2018-08-26 18:57       ` Joe Perches
2018-08-26 21:24         ` Al Viro
2018-08-26 22:26           ` Joe Perches
2018-08-26 22:43             ` Al Viro
2018-08-27  2:00               ` Julia Lawall
2018-08-27  2:35                 ` Al Viro
2018-08-27  3:35                   ` Julia Lawall
2018-08-27  4:04                     ` Al Viro
2018-08-27  4:41                       ` Julia Lawall
2018-08-27  1:59             ` Julia Lawall
2018-08-26 22:57       ` Al Viro
2018-08-27 11:57         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2018-08-27 21:31           ` Cong Wang
2018-08-28  0:03             ` Al Viro
2018-08-28 15:59               ` Al Viro
2018-08-31  4:03                 ` Al Viro
2018-08-29 19:07               ` Cong Wang
2018-08-29 21:33                 ` Al Viro
2018-08-26 21:22 ` David Miller

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