[PATCH v2 3/3] mm/slub: Actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning

Kees Cook
2020-10-09T19:54:37Z

It turns out that SLUB redzoning ("slub_debug=Z") checks from
s->object_size rather than from s->inuse (which is normally bumped to
make room for the freelist pointer), so a cache created with an object
size less than 24 would have their freelist pointer written beyond
s->object_size, causing the redzone to corrupt the freelist pointer.
This was very visible with "slub_debug=ZF":

BUG test (Tainted: G B ): Right Redzone overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

INFO: 0xffff957ead1c05de-0xffff957ead1c05df @offset=1502. First byte 0x1a instead of 0xbb
INFO: Slab 0xffffef3950b47000 objects=170 used=170 fp=0x0000000000000000 flags=0x8000000000000200
INFO: Object 0xffff957ead1c05d8 @offset=1496 fp=0xffff957ead1c0620

Redzone (____ptrval____): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ........
Object (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 f6 f4 a5 ........
Redzone (____ptrval____): 40 1d e8 1a aa @....
Padding (____ptrval____): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Adjust the offset to stay within s->object_size.

Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200807160627.GA1420741@elver.google.com/
Fixes: 89b83f282d8b (slub: avoid redzone when choosing freepointer location)
Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANpmjNOwZ5VpKQn+SYWovTkFB4VsT-RPwyENBmaK0dLcpqStkA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
mm/slub.c | 14 +++-----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 752fad36522c..6f115e56c5d0 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3637,7 +3637,6 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
{
slab_flags_t flags = s->flags;
unsigned int size = s->object_size;
- unsigned int freepointer_area;
unsigned int order;

/*
@@ -3646,13 +3645,6 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
* the possible location of the free pointer.
*/
size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *));
- /*
- * This is the area of the object where a freepointer can be
- * safely written. If redzoning adds more to the inuse size, we
- * can't use that portion for writing the freepointer, so
- * s->offset must be limited within this for the general case.
- */
- freepointer_area = size;

#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
/*
@@ -3678,7 +3670,7 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)

/*
* With that we have determined the number of bytes in actual use
- * by the object. This is the potential offset to the free pointer.
+ * by the object and redzoning.
*/
s->inuse = size;

@@ -3701,13 +3693,13 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache *s, int forced_order)
*/
s->offset = size;
size += sizeof(void *);
- } else if (freepointer_area > sizeof(void *)) {
+ } else {
/*
* Store freelist pointer near middle of object to keep
* it away from the edges of the object to avoid small
* sized over/underflows from neighboring allocations.
*/
- s->offset = ALIGN(freepointer_area / 2, sizeof(void *));
+ s->offset = ALIGN_DOWN(s->object_size / 2, sizeof(void *));
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
--
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