Re: [PATCHv2 00/13] Improve libfdt's memory safety

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 04:10:04PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 7/6/18 7:37 pm, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 04:21:48PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> >> On 4/6/18 11:13 pm, David Gibson wrote:
> >>> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 08:24:53PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>>> Hi David,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12 April 2018 at 16:23, David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:28:49AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi David,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 11 April 2018 at 22:52, David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>> It's always been a design goal of libfdt that it should be safe to
> >>>>>>> use, even on a badly corrupted fdt image.  "Safe" here meaning that it
> >>>>>>> should never access memory outside the blob's stated boundaries.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The existing code is pretty good about this with regards to accesses
> >>>>>>> to the structure block, thanks to the fdt_offset_ptr() helper
> >>>>>>> function.  However, accesses to the strings and memory reservation
> >>>>>>> blocks were less careful and could easily lead to wild pointer
> >>>>>>> dereferences in the case of a bad blob.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This series makes a number of improvements to libfdt safety, capping
> >>>>>>> it off with a new fdt_check_full() function which acts like an "fsck"
> >>>>>>> for fdt blobs.  Along the way we make some other cleanups.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Changes since v1:
> >>>>>>>   * Assorted minor polishes based on review comments
> >>>>>>>   * Added an extra patch to clean up sequential write mode state
> >>>>>>>     checking
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> David Gibson (13):
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Clean up header checking functions
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Improve sequential write state checking
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Make fdt_check_header() more thorough
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Safer access to strings section
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Propagate name errors in fdt_getprop_by_offset()
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Safer access to memory reservations
> >>>>>>>   Consolidate utilfdt_read_len() variants
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Add fdt_header_size()
> >>>>>>>   Use size_t for blob lengths in utilfdt_read*
> >>>>>>>   tests: Remove unused #define
> >>>>>>>   tests: Better handling of valgrind errors saving blobs
> >>>>>>>   tests: Use valgrind client requests for better checking
> >>>>>>>   libfdt: Add fdt_check_full() function
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>  fdtdump.c                  |   4 +-
> >>>>>>>  fdtget.c                   |   2 +-
> >>>>>>>  fdtoverlay.c               |   6 +-
> >>>>>>>  fdtput.c                   |   2 +-
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/fdt.c               |  76 +++++++++++++++++-
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/fdt_overlay.c       |   6 +-
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/fdt_ro.c            | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/fdt_rw.c            |  28 +++----
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/fdt_sw.c            |  97 ++++++++++++++++++-----
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/libfdt.h            |  35 ++++++++-
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/libfdt_env.h        |   1 +
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/libfdt_internal.h   |   5 +-
> >>>>>>>  libfdt/version.lds         |   2 +-
> >>>>>>>  tests/.gitignore           |   5 ++
> >>>>>>>  tests/Makefile.tests       |   6 +-
> >>>>>>>  tests/check_full.c         |  63 +++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>>  tests/check_header.c       | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>>  tests/dumptrees.c          |   2 +
> >>>>>>>  tests/mangle-layout.c      |   8 +-
> >>>>>>>  tests/mangle-layout.supp   |   7 --
> >>>>>>>  tests/open_pack.supp       |   7 --
> >>>>>>>  tests/run_tests.sh         |  14 ++++
> >>>>>>>  tests/sw_states.c          | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>>  tests/sw_tree1.supp        |  18 -----
> >>>>>>>  tests/testdata.h           |   2 +
> >>>>>>>  tests/tests.h              |   1 +
> >>>>>>>  tests/testutils.c          |  78 +++++++++++++++++--
> >>>>>>>  tests/trees.S              |  46 +++++++++++
> >>>>>>>  tests/truncated_memrsv.c   |  63 +++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>>  tests/truncated_property.c |   2 +
> >>>>>>>  tests/truncated_string.c   |  81 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>>  util.c                     |  23 ++----
> >>>>>>>  util.h                     |  20 +----
> >>>>>>>  33 files changed, 1016 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>>  create mode 100644 tests/check_full.c
> >>>>>>>  create mode 100644 tests/check_header.c
> >>>>>>>  delete mode 100644 tests/mangle-layout.supp
> >>>>>>>  delete mode 100644 tests/open_pack.supp
> >>>>>>>  create mode 100644 tests/sw_states.c
> >>>>>>>  delete mode 100644 tests/sw_tree1.supp
> >>>>>>>  create mode 100644 tests/truncated_memrsv.c
> >>>>>>>  create mode 100644 tests/truncated_string.c
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is there a patchwork client I can use to try these patches please, or
> >>>>>> a git tree somewhere? For some reason I cannot find it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There's no patchwork, but you can get the git tree at
> >>>>> https://github.com/dgibson/dtc/tree/safety
> >>>>
> >>>> OK thank you.
> >>>>
> >>>> It is probably best that you apply this and I will see if I can take a
> >>>> look at cutting the size back afterwards.
> >>>
> >>> Ok, will do.
> >>>
> >>>> How about something like:
> >>>>
> >>>> static inline fdt_do_checks(void)
> >>>> {
> >>>> #ifdef FDT_MINIMAL
> >>>>    return false;
> >>>> #else
> >>>>    return true;
> >>>> #endif
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> Then, in various places:
> >>>>
> >>>> if (fdt_do_checks() && check_something())
> >>>>    return -FDT_ERR_...
> >>>>
> >>>> I suppose we could add more options, but the main one from my side is
> >>>> to remove all sanity / safety checks for minimal code size.
> >>>
> >>> Seems reasonable.
> >>
> >>
> >> Are you pushing the updated dtc any time soon then?
> > 
> > I just did.
> 
> 
> I was rather asking about dtc submodule update in qemu, it is not there yet:
> 
> [vpl1 qemu]$ git submodule status dtc
>  e54388015af1fb4bf04d0bca99caba1074d9cc42 dtc (v1.4.6)

Oh, right.  Any particular things you're looking for in it?

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