On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 16:01 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Structure ib_uverbs_qp_attr is copied to userland with allmost all > > fields uninitialized (140 bytes on x86). It leads to leaking of > > contents of kernel stack memory. > > I don't think most of the fields are uninitialized... we have: > > memset(&qp_attr, 0, sizeof qp_attr); > > and then later on, > > ib_copy_qp_attr_to_user(&resp, &qp_attr); Uh, sorry, I was over-pessimistic here... > which actually does initialize almost all of the fields in resp. The > things that are missing are clearing out the reserved fields in the > structures, and also resp.qp_state never gets set. > > I would suggest adding code to clear the reserved fields of structures > to ib_copy_qp_attr_to_user() and ib_copy_ah_attr_to_user(), since this > will fix what looks to be the same problem in ucma_init_qp_attr() (in > drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c). Also part of grh field and ib_uverbs_ah_attr->reserved. How do you see this variant of zeroing? (I don't know whether these fields may be needed for another callers.) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c index 08f948d..f7256f3 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c @@ -629,6 +629,7 @@ static ssize_t ib_ucm_init_qp_attr(struct ib_ucm_file *file, if (result) goto out; + resp.qp_state = 0; ib_copy_qp_attr_to_user(&resp, &qp_attr); if (copy_to_user((void __user *)(unsigned long)cmd.response, diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c index ca12acf..07fd247 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c @@ -842,6 +842,7 @@ static ssize_t ucma_init_qp_attr(struct ucma_file *file, if (ret) goto out; + resp.qp_state = 0; ib_copy_qp_attr_to_user(&resp, &qp_attr); if (copy_to_user((void __user *)(unsigned long)cmd.response, &resp, sizeof(resp))) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_marshall.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_marshall.c index 5440da0..cceaf33 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_marshall.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_marshall.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ void ib_copy_ah_attr_to_user(struct ib_uverbs_ah_attr *dst, struct ib_ah_attr *src) { + memset(&dst->grh, 0, sizeof(dst->grh)); memcpy(dst->grh.dgid, src->grh.dgid.raw, sizeof src->grh.dgid); dst->grh.flow_label = src->grh.flow_label; dst->grh.sgid_index = src->grh.sgid_index; @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ void ib_copy_ah_attr_to_user(struct ib_uverbs_ah_attr *dst, dst->static_rate = src->static_rate; dst->is_global = src->ah_flags & IB_AH_GRH ? 1 : 0; dst->port_num = src->port_num; + dst->reserved = 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_copy_ah_attr_to_user); @@ -83,6 +85,7 @@ void ib_copy_qp_attr_to_user(struct ib_uverbs_qp_attr *dst, dst->rnr_retry = src->rnr_retry; dst->alt_port_num = src->alt_port_num; dst->alt_timeout = src->alt_timeout; + memset(dst->reserved, 0, sizeof(dst->reserved)); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_copy_qp_attr_to_user); -- Vasiliy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html