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authorJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>2017-11-17 15:29:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-17 16:10:03 -0800
commit7a8d181949fb2c16be00f8cdb354794a30e46b39 (patch)
tree4f18ea1b17605e97a2c5a0089ff819eb60435bc9 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentd3f14c485867cfb2e0c48aa88c41d0ef4bf5209c (diff)
downloadlinux-7a8d181949fb2c16be00f8cdb354794a30e46b39.tar.gz
pipe: add proc_dopipe_max_size() to safely assign pipe_max_size
pipe_max_size is assigned directly via procfs sysctl:

  static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
          ...
          {
                  .procname       = "pipe-max-size",
                  .data           = &pipe_max_size,
                  .maxlen         = sizeof(int),
                  .mode           = 0644,
                  .proc_handler   = &pipe_proc_fn,
                  .extra1         = &pipe_min_size,
          },
          ...

  int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf,
                   size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  {
          ...
          ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buf, lenp, ppos)
          ...

and then later rounded in-place a few statements later:

          ...
          pipe_max_size = round_pipe_size(pipe_max_size);
          ...

This leaves a window of time between initial assignment and rounding
that may be visible to other threads.  (For example, one thread sets a
non-rounded value to pipe_max_size while another reads its value.)

Similar reads of pipe_max_size are potentially racy:

  pipe.c :: alloc_pipe_info()
  pipe.c :: pipe_set_size()

Add a new proc_dopipe_max_size() that consolidates reading the new value
from the user buffer, verifying bounds, and calling round_pipe_size()
with a single assignment to pipe_max_size.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507658689-11669-4-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c49
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 2d42183b4c98..138b6484f277 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/bpf.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
 
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
@@ -2620,6 +2621,47 @@ int proc_douintvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 				 do_proc_douintvec_minmax_conv, &param);
 }
 
+struct do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv_param {
+	unsigned int *min;
+};
+
+static int do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv(unsigned long *lvalp,
+					unsigned int *valp,
+					int write, void *data)
+{
+	struct do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv_param *param = data;
+
+	if (write) {
+		unsigned int val = round_pipe_size(*lvalp);
+
+		if (val == 0)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		if (param->min && *param->min > val)
+			return -ERANGE;
+
+		if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		*valp = val;
+	} else {
+		unsigned int val = *valp;
+		*lvalp = (unsigned long) val;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int proc_dopipe_max_size(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+			 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	struct do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv_param param = {
+		.min = (unsigned int *) table->extra1,
+	};
+	return do_proc_douintvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos,
+				 do_proc_dopipe_max_size_conv, &param);
+}
+
 static void validate_coredump_safety(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_COREDUMP
@@ -3125,6 +3167,12 @@ int proc_douintvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
 
+int proc_dopipe_max_size(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+			 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	return -ENOSYS;
+}
+
 int proc_dointvec_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		    void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
 {
@@ -3168,6 +3216,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_douintvec);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dointvec_jiffies);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dointvec_minmax);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(proc_douintvec_minmax);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(proc_dopipe_max_size);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_dostring);