Re: a kernel address leak via copy_to_user in drivers/tty/rocket.c

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:02:38PM +0800, Fuqian Huang wrote:
> I add a function to mask all pointer fields of struct r_port. (Other
> pointer fields may have a similar issue, so I set all pointer fields
> to NULL);
> The modified code is marked with ">"
> 
> >1274 static void mask_pointer(struct r_port *info, struct r_port *masked_info) {
> >1275   memcpy(masked_info, info, sizeof (struct r_port));
> >1276   masked_info->port.tty = NULL;
> >1277   masked_info->port.itty = NULL;
> >1278   masked_info->port.ops = NULL;
> >1279   masked_info->port.client_ops = NULL;
> >1280   memset(&masked_info->port.open_wait.head, 0, sizeof(struct list_head));
> >1281   memset(&masked_info->port.delta_msr_wait.head, 0, sizeof(struct list_head));
> >1282   memset(&masked_info->port.mutex.wait_list, 0, sizeof(struct list_head));
> >1283   memset(&masked_info->port.buf_mutex.wait_list, 0, sizeof(struct list_head));
> >1284   masked_info->port.xmit_buf = NULL;
> >1285   masked_info->port.client_data = NULL;
> >1286   masked_info->ctlp = NULL;
> >1287   masked_info->xmit_buf = NULL;
> >1288   memset(&masked_info->write_mtx.wait_list, 0, sizeof(struct list_head));
> >1289 }
> 1290
> 1291 /*  IOCTL call handler into the driver */
> 1292 static int rp_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty,
> 1293         unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> 1294 {
> 1295   struct r_port *info = tty->driver_data;
> >1296   struct r_port *masked_info;
> 1297   void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
> 1298   int ret = 0;
> 1299
> 1300   if (cmd != RCKP_GET_PORTS && rocket_paranoia_check(info, "rp_ioctl"))
> 1301     return -ENXIO;
> 1302   switch (cmd) {
> 1303   case RCKP_GET_STRUCT:
> >1304     masked_info = kzalloc(sizeof (struct r_port), GFP_KERNEL);
> >1305     mask_pointer(info, masked_info);
> >1306     if (copy_to_user(argp, masked_info, sizeof (struct r_port)))
> 1307       ret = -EFAULT;

Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for the proper way to create
and submit a patch such that we can apply it.

thanks!

greg k-h