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From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] macsec: avoid heap overflow in skb_to_sgvec
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 23:14:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170421211448.16995-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> (raw)

While this may appear as a humdrum one line change, it's actually quite
important. An sk_buff stores data in three places:

1. A linear chunk of allocated memory in skb->data. This is the easiest
   one to work with, but it precludes using scatterdata since the memory
   must be linear.
2. The array skb_shinfo(skb)->frags, which is of maximum length
   MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This is nice for scattergather, since these fragments
   can point to different pages.
3. skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list, which is a pointer to another sk_buff,
   which in turn can have data in either (1) or (2).

The first two are rather easy to deal with, since they're of a fixed
maximum length, while the third one is not, since there can be
potentially limitless chains of fragments. Fortunately dealing with
frag_list is opt-in for drivers, so drivers don't actually have to deal
with this mess. For whatever reason, macsec decided it wanted pain, and
so it explicitly specified NETIF_F_FRAGLIST.

Because dealing with (1), (2), and (3) is insane, most users of sk_buff
doing any sort of crypto or paging operation calls a convenient function
called skb_to_sgvec (which happens to be recursive if (3) is in use!).
This takes a sk_buff as input, and writes into its output pointer an
array of scattergather list items. Sometimes people like to declare a
fixed size scattergather list on the stack; othertimes people like to
allocate a fixed size scattergather list on the heap. However, if you're
doing it in a fixed-size fashion, you really shouldn't be using
NETIF_F_FRAGLIST too (unless you're also ensuring the sk_buff and its
frag_list children arent't shared and then you check the number of
fragments in total required.)

Macsec specifically does this:

        size += sizeof(struct scatterlist) * (MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1);
        tmp = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
        *sg = (struct scatterlist *)(tmp + sg_offset);
	...
        sg_init_table(sg, MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1);
        skb_to_sgvec(skb, sg, 0, skb->len);

Specifying MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1 is the right answer usually, but not if you're
using NETIF_F_FRAGLIST, in which case the call to skb_to_sgvec will
overflow the heap, and disaster ensues.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: security@kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/macsec.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/macsec.c b/drivers/net/macsec.c
index ff0a5ed3ca80..dbab05afcdbe 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c
@@ -2716,7 +2716,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t macsec_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
 }
 
 #define MACSEC_FEATURES \
-	(NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA | NETIF_F_FRAGLIST)
+	(NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HIGHDMA)
 static struct lock_class_key macsec_netdev_addr_lock_key;
 
 static int macsec_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
-- 
2.12.2

             reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-21 21:14 Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2017-04-24 11:02 ` David Laight
2017-04-24 12:15   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-24 17:47 ` David Miller
2017-04-25 14:53 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-25 15:08   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 15:12     ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-25 15:13       ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 15:23         ` [PATCH] macsec: dynamically allocate space for sglist Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 16:36           ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-25 17:08             ` [PATCH v2] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-04-25 20:35               ` Sabrina Dubroca
2017-04-26 18:42               ` David Miller

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