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authorAmanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>2015-08-06 15:46:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-08-07 04:39:40 +0300
commit3c00cb5e68dc719f2fc73a33b1b230aadfcb1309 (patch)
tree68b5f2424fb18c45aa9b67a694a75160dddbbf23 /arch/arm64
parent209f7512d007980fd111a74a064d70a3656079cf (diff)
downloadlinux-3c00cb5e68dc719f2fc73a33b1b230aadfcb1309.tar.gz
signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32
This function can leak kernel stack data when the user siginfo_t has a
positive si_code value.  The top 16 bits of si_code descibe which fields
in the siginfo_t union are active, but they are treated inconsistently
between copy_siginfo_from_user32, copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
copy_siginfo_to_user.

copy_siginfo_from_user32 is called from rt_sigqueueinfo and
rt_tgsigqueueinfo in which the user has full control overthe top 16 bits
of si_code.

This fixes the following information leaks:
x86:   8 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to
       itself. This leak grows to 16 bytes if the process uses x32.
       (si_code = __SI_CHLD)
x86:   100 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to
       a 64-bit process. (si_code = -1)
sparc: 4 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to a
       64-bit process. (si_code = any)

parsic and s390 have similar bugs, but they are not vulnerable because
rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo have checks that prevent sending a positive si_code
to a different process.  These bugs are also fixed for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
index 1670f15ef69e..81fd38f4fbaa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -201,8 +201,6 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 
 int copy_siginfo_from_user32(siginfo_t *to, compat_siginfo_t __user *from)
 {
-	memset(to, 0, sizeof *to);
-
 	if (copy_from_user(to, from, __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE) ||
 	    copy_from_user(to->_sifields._pad,
 			   from->_sifields._pad, SI_PAD_SIZE))