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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] hardening fixes for v5.18-rc1
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:35 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Please pull these hardening fixes for v5.18-rc1. This addresses an
> -Warray-bounds warning found under a few ARM defconfigs, and disables
> long-broken CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN.

Can't we just remove that HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN thing entirely?

Yes, yes, I know Matthew did that as part of other patches that is too
late to go in any more in this merge window, but just the removal
patch is a no-brainer.

IOW, why not just do the attached?

Linus
arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig | 1 -
mm/usercopy.c | 67 ----------------------------------
security/Kconfig | 11 ------
3 files changed, 79 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
index f491875700e8..64176cc12d0e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/skiroot_defconfig
@@ -274,7 +274,6 @@ CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
CONFIG_ENCRYPTED_KEYS=y
CONFIG_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y
-CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN=y
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM=y
CONFIG_SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM_EARLY=y
diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index 2c235d5c2364..1ad8c755850b 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -157,70 +157,6 @@ static inline void check_bogus_address(const unsigned long ptr, unsigned long n,
usercopy_abort("null address", NULL, to_user, ptr, n);
}

-/* Checks for allocs that are marked in some way as spanning multiple pages. */
-static inline void check_page_span(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
- struct page *page, bool to_user)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN
- const void *end = ptr + n - 1;
- struct page *endpage;
- bool is_reserved, is_cma;
-
- /*
- * Sometimes the kernel data regions are not marked Reserved (see
- * check below). And sometimes [_sdata,_edata) does not cover
- * rodata and/or bss, so check each range explicitly.
- */
-
- /* Allow reads of kernel rodata region (if not marked as Reserved). */
- if (ptr >= (const void *)__start_rodata &&
- end <= (const void *)__end_rodata) {
- if (!to_user)
- usercopy_abort("rodata", NULL, to_user, 0, n);
- return;
- }
-
- /* Allow kernel data region (if not marked as Reserved). */
- if (ptr >= (const void *)_sdata && end <= (const void *)_edata)
- return;
-
- /* Allow kernel bss region (if not marked as Reserved). */
- if (ptr >= (const void *)__bss_start &&
- end <= (const void *)__bss_stop)
- return;
-
- /* Is the object wholly within one base page? */
- if (likely(((unsigned long)ptr & (unsigned long)PAGE_MASK) ==
- ((unsigned long)end & (unsigned long)PAGE_MASK)))
- return;
-
- /* Allow if fully inside the same compound (__GFP_COMP) page. */
- endpage = virt_to_head_page(end);
- if (likely(endpage == page))
- return;
-
- /*
- * Reject if range is entirely either Reserved (i.e. special or
- * device memory), or CMA. Otherwise, reject since the object spans
- * several independently allocated pages.
- */
- is_reserved = PageReserved(page);
- is_cma = is_migrate_cma_page(page);
- if (!is_reserved && !is_cma)
- usercopy_abort("spans multiple pages", NULL, to_user, 0, n);
-
- for (ptr += PAGE_SIZE; ptr <= end; ptr += PAGE_SIZE) {
- page = virt_to_head_page(ptr);
- if (is_reserved && !PageReserved(page))
- usercopy_abort("spans Reserved and non-Reserved pages",
- NULL, to_user, 0, n);
- if (is_cma && !is_migrate_cma_page(page))
- usercopy_abort("spans CMA and non-CMA pages", NULL,
- to_user, 0, n);
- }
-#endif
-}
-
static inline void check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
bool to_user)
{
@@ -239,9 +175,6 @@ static inline void check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
if (folio_test_slab(folio)) {
/* Check slab allocator for flags and size. */
__check_heap_object(ptr, n, folio_slab(folio), to_user);
- } else {
- /* Verify object does not incorrectly span multiple pages. */
- check_page_span(ptr, n, folio_page(folio, 0), to_user);
}
}

diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 9b2c4925585a..7d639f1b0c4a 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -163,17 +163,6 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY
or are part of the kernel text. This kills entire classes
of heap overflow exploits and similar kernel memory exposures.

-config HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN
- bool "Refuse to copy allocations that span multiple pages"
- depends on HARDENED_USERCOPY
- depends on BROKEN
- help
- When a multi-page allocation is done without __GFP_COMP,
- hardened usercopy will reject attempts to copy it. There are,
- however, several cases of this in the kernel that have not all
- been removed. This config is intended to be used only while
- trying to find such users.
-
config FORTIFY_SOURCE
bool "Harden common str/mem functions against buffer overflows"
depends on ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
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