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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2016-10-11 13:51:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-11 15:06:30 -0700
commitbf90e56e467ed5766722972d483e6711889ed1b0 (patch)
tree247ecdbbc0e47c0a323e66f523b166c2b5323f24 /lib
parente0176a2f1e131294824d0e50e719cd12290cf06c (diff)
downloadlinux-bf90e56e467ed5766722972d483e6711889ed1b0.tar.gz
lib: harden strncpy_from_user
The strncpy_from_user() accessor is effectively a copy_from_user()
specialised to copy strings, terminating early at a NUL byte if possible.
In other respects it is identical, and can be used to copy an arbitrarily
large buffer from userspace into the kernel.  Conceptually, it exposes a
similar attack surface.

As with copy_from_user(), we check the destination range when the kernel
is built with KASAN, but unlike copy_from_user() we do not check the
destination buffer when using HARDENED_USERCOPY.  As strncpy_from_user()
calls get_user() in a loop, we must call check_object_size() explicitly.

This patch adds this instrumentation to strncpy_from_user(), per the same
rationale as with the regular copy_from_user().  In the absence of
hardened usercopy this will have no impact as the instrumentation expands
to an empty static inline function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472221903-31181-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/strncpy_from_user.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
index 9c5fe8110413..7e35fc450c5b 100644
--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/kasan-checks.h>
+#include <linux/thread_info.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ long strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count)
 		long retval;
 
 		kasan_check_write(dst, count);
+		check_object_size(dst, count, false);
 		user_access_begin();
 		retval = do_strncpy_from_user(dst, src, count, max);
 		user_access_end();