On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 06:38:49PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reading from a debugfs file at a nonzero position, without first reading
> at position 0, leaks uninitialized memory to userspace.
>
> It's a bit tricky to do this, since lseek() and pread() aren't allowed
> on these files, and write() doesn't update the position on them. But
> writing to them with splice() *does* update the position:
>
> #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> int main()
> {
> int pipes[2], fd, n, i;
> char buf[32];
>
> pipe(pipes);
> write(pipes[1], "0", 1);
> fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/fault_around_bytes", O_RDWR);
> splice(pipes[0], NULL, fd, NULL, 1, 0);
> n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
> for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
> printf("%02x", buf[i]);
> printf("\n");
> }
>
> Output:
> 5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a30
>
> Fix the infoleak by making simple_attr_read() always fill
> simple_attr::get_buf if it hasn't been filled yet.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+fcab69d1ada3e8d6f06b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: acaefc25d21f ("[PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yikes, that's an important fix!
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Luckily (as Alexander mentioned too), most distros make debugfs
non-accessible by non-root (I hope):
$ ls -lda /sys/kernel/debug
drwx------ 39 root root 0 Jan 8 09:10 /sys/kernel/debug/
That function is also exposed via DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(), but those
users appear to also be mostly (all?) debugfs too.
And, just to note, for v5.3 and later, this would be fully mitigated by
booting with "init_on_alloc=1".
-Kees
> ---
> fs/libfs.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
> index c686bd9caac6..3759fbacf522 100644
> --- a/fs/libfs.c
> +++ b/fs/libfs.c
> @@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ int simple_attr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
> {
> struct simple_attr *attr;
>
> - attr = kmalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL);
> + attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!attr)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> @@ -931,9 +931,11 @@ ssize_t simple_attr_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> - if (*ppos) { /* continued read */
> + if (*ppos && attr->get_buf[0]) {
> + /* continued read */
> size = strlen(attr->get_buf);
> - } else { /* first read */
> + } else {
> + /* first read */
> u64 val;
> ret = attr->get(attr->data, &val);
> if (ret)
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Kees Cook
