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authorHawkins Jiawei <yin31149@gmail.com>2022-09-27 02:34:59 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2022-10-07 16:00:25 +0300
commite3e6e1d16a4cf7b63159ec71774e822194071954 (patch)
tree8d5aae546ff674d602fd17730828d5b4c4f30c9f /net
parentd9e249704084982ac7581a560ffa284e11621d43 (diff)
downloadlinux-e3e6e1d16a4cf7b63159ec71774e822194071954.tar.xz
wifi: wext: use flex array destination for memcpy()
Syzkaller reports buffer overflow false positive as follows: ------------[ cut here ]------------ memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 8) of single field "&compat_event->pointer" at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 (size 4) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3607 at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 wireless_send_event+0xab5/0xca0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 3607 Comm: syz-executor659 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6-next-20220921-syzkaller #0 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ioctl_standard_call+0x155/0x1f0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1022 wireless_process_ioctl+0xc8/0x4c0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:955 wext_ioctl_dispatch net/wireless/wext-core.c:988 [inline] wext_ioctl_dispatch net/wireless/wext-core.c:976 [inline] wext_handle_ioctl+0x26b/0x280 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1049 sock_ioctl+0x285/0x640 net/socket.c:1220 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [...] </TASK> Wireless events will be sent on the appropriate channels in wireless_send_event(). Different wireless events may have different payload structure and size, so kernel uses **len** and **cmd** field in struct __compat_iw_event as wireless event common LCP part, uses **pointer** as a label to mark the position of remaining different part. Yet the problem is that, **pointer** is a compat_caddr_t type, which may be smaller than the relative structure at the same position. So during wireless_send_event() tries to parse the wireless events payload, it may trigger the memcpy() run-time destination buffer bounds checking when the relative structure's data is copied to the position marked by **pointer**. This patch solves it by introducing flexible-array field **ptr_bytes**, to mark the position of the wireless events remaining part next to LCP part. What's more, this patch also adds **ptr_len** variable in wireless_send_event() to improve its maintainability. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+473754e5af963cf014cf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000070db2005e95a5984@google.com/ Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/wireless/wext-core.c17
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
index 76a80a41615b..fe8765c4075d 100644
--- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c
+++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c
@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ void wireless_send_event(struct net_device * dev,
struct __compat_iw_event *compat_event;
struct compat_iw_point compat_wrqu;
struct sk_buff *compskb;
+ int ptr_len;
#endif
/*
@@ -582,6 +583,9 @@ void wireless_send_event(struct net_device * dev,
nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
hdr_len = compat_event_type_size[descr->header_type];
+
+ /* ptr_len is remaining size in event header apart from LCP */
+ ptr_len = hdr_len - IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN;
event_len = hdr_len + extra_len;
compskb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
@@ -612,16 +616,15 @@ void wireless_send_event(struct net_device * dev,
if (descr->header_type == IW_HEADER_TYPE_POINT) {
compat_wrqu.length = wrqu->data.length;
compat_wrqu.flags = wrqu->data.flags;
- memcpy(&compat_event->pointer,
- ((char *) &compat_wrqu) + IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_OFF,
- hdr_len - IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN);
+ memcpy(compat_event->ptr_bytes,
+ ((char *)&compat_wrqu) + IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_OFF,
+ ptr_len);
if (extra_len)
- memcpy(((char *) compat_event) + hdr_len,
- extra, extra_len);
+ memcpy(&compat_event->ptr_bytes[ptr_len],
+ extra, extra_len);
} else {
/* extra_len must be zero, so no if (extra) needed */
- memcpy(&compat_event->pointer, wrqu,
- hdr_len - IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN);
+ memcpy(compat_event->ptr_bytes, wrqu, ptr_len);
}
nlmsg_end(compskb, nlh);