[kernel-hardening] [PATCH 12/38] vfs: Copy struct mount.mnt_id to userspace using put_user()

Kees Cook
2018-01-11T02:02:44Z

From: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>

The mnt_id field can be copied with put_user(), so there is no need to
use copy_to_user(). In both cases, hardened usercopy is being bypassed
since the size is constant, and not open to runtime manipulation.

This patch is verbatim from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
[kees: adjust commit log]
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
fs/fhandle.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fhandle.c b/fs/fhandle.c
index 0ace128f5d23..0ee727485615 100644
--- a/fs/fhandle.c
+++ b/fs/fhandle.c
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ static long do_sys_name_to_handle(struct path *path,
} else
retval = 0;
/* copy the mount id */
- if (copy_to_user(mnt_id, &real_mount(path->mnt)->mnt_id,
- sizeof(*mnt_id)) ||
+ if (put_user(real_mount(path->mnt)->mnt_id, mnt_id) ||
copy_to_user(ufh, handle,
sizeof(struct file_handle) + handle_bytes))
retval = -EFAULT;
--
2.7.4