Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode

From	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode
Date	2017-05-10 04:50 +0200
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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 03:11:18AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:03:22AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:02:50AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:00:01AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > > fs/splice.c has some, ahem, interesting uses that have been the source
> > > > of nasty exploits in the past.  Converting them to use iov_iter
> > > > properly would be really, really nice.  Christoph, I don't suppose
> > > > you'd like to do that?
> > > 
> > > I can take care of all the fs code including this one.
> 
> Oh?
> 
> > I spent the afternoon hacking up where I'd like this to head.  It's
> > completely untested as of now:
> > 
> > 	http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/setfs-elimination
> 
> And just what happens to driver that has no ->read_iter()?  Unless I'm
> seriously misreading that, NAK with extreme prejudice.

FWIW, some parts of that queue are obviously sane; it's the conversions of
kernel_write() and friends to ->read_iter/->write_iter() that are non-starters.
That stuff is used in too many situations; we can't guarantee that all of
them will be for files that have those.

As for default_file_splice_read(), I seriously suspect that with your change
we could as well just make it return -EINVAL and be done with that; places
that have ->read_iter() tend to have explicit ->splice_read() and it looks
like the ones that do not should simply use generic_file_read_iter().
I hadn't checked that, but there's not a lot of those:

arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c:437:    .read_iter      = hypfs_read_iter,
drivers/char/mem.c:798: .read_iter      = read_iter_null,
drivers/char/mem.c:813: .read_iter      = read_iter_zero,
drivers/char/mem.c:824: .read_iter      = read_iter_zero,
drivers/char/raw.c:286: .read_iter      = blkdev_read_iter,
drivers/net/tap.c:1134: .read_iter      = tap_read_iter,
drivers/net/tun.c:2423: .read_iter  = tun_chr_read_iter,
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c:1255:        .read_iter =    ffs_epfile_read_iter,
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:703:  .read_iter =    ep_read_iter,
drivers/vhost/net.c:1252:       .read_iter      = vhost_net_chr_read_iter,
fs/9p/vfs_file.c:641:   .read_iter = generic_file_read_iter,
fs/9p/vfs_file.c:652:   .read_iter = generic_file_read_iter,
fs/9p/vfs_file.c:664:   .read_iter = v9fs_file_read_iter,
fs/9p/vfs_file.c:675:   .read_iter = v9fs_file_read_iter,
fs/9p/vfs_file.c:687:   .read_iter = v9fs_mmap_file_read_iter,
fs/9p/vfs_file.c:698:   .read_iter = v9fs_mmap_file_read_iter,
fs/fuse/cuse.c:180:     .read_iter              = cuse_read_iter,
fs/fuse/file.c:3015:    .read_iter      = fuse_direct_read_iter,
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:980:       .read_iter              = hugetlbfs_read_iter,
fs/ncpfs/file.c:248:    .read_iter      = ncp_file_read_iter,
fs/orangefs/file.c:742: .read_iter      = orangefs_file_read_iter,
fs/pipe.c:1011: .read_iter      = pipe_read,
sound/core/pcm_native.c:3696:           .read_iter =            snd_pcm_readv,

is the full list and I'm fairly certain that most of them will work with
generic_file_splice_read() just fine.  drivers/char definitely will, so
will ncpfs/orangefs/hugetlbfs/most of 9p ones (two of the latter might
need some care in p9_client_read(), but that should be doable easily enough).
pipe is irrelevant (->splice_read() won't be called for those).  fuse ones
should be doable, but that might take a bit more infrastructure work in
lib/iov_iter.c.  vhost, gadgetfs, tun/tap - no idea at the moment.

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[PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> - 2017-04-28 17:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> - 2017-05-06 00:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning  to user-mode Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 09:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning  to user-mode Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 10:00 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 17:30 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-08 17:30 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> - 2017-05-08 22:00 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-09 09:00 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-05-09 13:20 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> - 2017-05-09 16:40 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-09 18:40 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2017-05-08 14:50 +0200
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-09 08:50 +0200
          Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-09 11:00 +0200
            Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-09 15:10 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-09 15:10 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-09 18:10 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-09 19:00 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-05-10 01:00 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-10 01:40 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-10 04:10 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 09:20 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-05-11 13:30 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 08:50 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 04:20 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 04:50 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 05:20 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 05:30 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 05:50 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 09:00 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 09:00 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 09:30 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 09:40 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 09:00 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-10 09:30 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 09:40 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 18:10 +0200
              Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-10 09:40 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-10 10:10 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-10 10:20 +0200
                Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address  limit before returning to user-mode Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2017-05-11 02:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-08 15:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> - 2017-05-08 16:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning  to user-mode Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2017-05-08 22:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning  to user-mode Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-08 16:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-08 17:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning  to user-mode Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-05-09 08:40 +0200

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