Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Limit the size of I/Os to PAGE_SIZE

[Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>]

On 5/13/21 12:06 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> We currently allow a read or a write that is up to KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.
> This has caused problems when cat decides to do a 64kB read and
> so we allocate a 64kB buffer for the sysctl handler to store into.
> The immediate problem was fixed by switching to kvmalloc(), but it's
> ridiculous to allocate so much memory to read what is likely to be a
> few bytes.
> 
> sysfs limits reads and writes to PAGE_SIZE, and I feel we should do the
> same for sysctl.  The largest sysctl anyone's been able to come up with
> is 433 bytes for /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
> 
> This will allow simplifying the BPF sysctl code later, but I'll leave
> that for someone who understands it better.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> ---
>   fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 15 +++++++++------
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> index dea0f5ee540c..a97a8a4ff270 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
> @@ -562,11 +562,14 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
>   	if (!table->proc_handler)
>   		goto out;
>   
> -	/* don't even try if the size is too large */
> +	/* reads may return short values; large writes must fail now */
> +	if (count >= PAGE_SIZE) {
> +		if (write)
> +			goto out;
> +		count = PAGE_SIZE;
> +	}
>   	error = -ENOMEM;
> -	if (count >= KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> -		goto out;
> -	kbuf = kvzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	kbuf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!kbuf)
>   		goto out;
>   

Below here we have

kbuf[count] = '\0';

with will overflow with this patch.  So maybe instead we do

if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
	count = PAGE_SIZE - 1;
kbuf = kmalloc(count);

and that solves your problem and keeps us from overflowing.  Thanks,

Josef