From: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@xxxxxxxxx> commit e3e6e1d16a4cf7b63159ec71774e822194071954 upstream. Syzkaller reports buffer overflow false positive as follows: ------------[ cut here ]------------ memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 8) of single field "&compat_event->pointer" at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 (size 4) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3607 at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 wireless_send_event+0xab5/0xca0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 3607 Comm: syz-executor659 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc6-next-20220921-syzkaller #0 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ioctl_standard_call+0x155/0x1f0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1022 wireless_process_ioctl+0xc8/0x4c0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:955 wext_ioctl_dispatch net/wireless/wext-core.c:988 [inline] wext_ioctl_dispatch net/wireless/wext-core.c:976 [inline] wext_handle_ioctl+0x26b/0x280 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1049 sock_ioctl+0x285/0x640 net/socket.c:1220 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [...] </TASK> Wireless events will be sent on the appropriate channels in wireless_send_event(). Different wireless events may have different payload structure and size, so kernel uses **len** and **cmd** field in struct __compat_iw_event as wireless event common LCP part, uses **pointer** as a label to mark the position of remaining different part. Yet the problem is that, **pointer** is a compat_caddr_t type, which may be smaller than the relative structure at the same position. So during wireless_send_event() tries to parse the wireless events payload, it may trigger the memcpy() run-time destination buffer bounds checking when the relative structure's data is copied to the position marked by **pointer**. This patch solves it by introducing flexible-array field **ptr_bytes**, to mark the position of the wireless events remaining part next to LCP part. What's more, this patch also adds **ptr_len** variable in wireless_send_event() to improve its maintainability. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+473754e5af963cf014cf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000070db2005e95a5984@xxxxxxxxxx/ Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/wireless.h | 10 +++++++++- net/wireless/wext-core.c | 17 ++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/wireless.h +++ b/include/linux/wireless.h @@ -26,7 +26,15 @@ struct compat_iw_point { struct __compat_iw_event { __u16 len; /* Real length of this stuff */ __u16 cmd; /* Wireless IOCTL */ - compat_caddr_t pointer; + + union { + compat_caddr_t pointer; + + /* we need ptr_bytes to make memcpy() run-time destination + * buffer bounds checking happy, nothing special + */ + DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(__u8, ptr_bytes); + }; }; #define IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN offsetof(struct __compat_iw_event, pointer) #define IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_OFF offsetof(struct compat_iw_point, length) --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c @@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ void wireless_send_event(struct net_devi struct __compat_iw_event *compat_event; struct compat_iw_point compat_wrqu; struct sk_buff *compskb; + int ptr_len; #endif /* @@ -582,6 +583,9 @@ void wireless_send_event(struct net_devi nlmsg_end(skb, nlh); #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT hdr_len = compat_event_type_size[descr->header_type]; + + /* ptr_len is remaining size in event header apart from LCP */ + ptr_len = hdr_len - IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN; event_len = hdr_len + extra_len; compskb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); @@ -612,16 +616,15 @@ void wireless_send_event(struct net_devi if (descr->header_type == IW_HEADER_TYPE_POINT) { compat_wrqu.length = wrqu->data.length; compat_wrqu.flags = wrqu->data.flags; - memcpy(&compat_event->pointer, - ((char *) &compat_wrqu) + IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_OFF, - hdr_len - IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN); + memcpy(compat_event->ptr_bytes, + ((char *)&compat_wrqu) + IW_EV_COMPAT_POINT_OFF, + ptr_len); if (extra_len) - memcpy(((char *) compat_event) + hdr_len, - extra, extra_len); + memcpy(&compat_event->ptr_bytes[ptr_len], + extra, extra_len); } else { /* extra_len must be zero, so no if (extra) needed */ - memcpy(&compat_event->pointer, wrqu, - hdr_len - IW_EV_COMPAT_LCP_LEN); + memcpy(compat_event->ptr_bytes, wrqu, ptr_len); } nlmsg_end(compskb, nlh);
