From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: Fix io_pgetevents() struct __compat_aio_sigset layout
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:53:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49ef1dozmt.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190821033820.14155-1-guillem@hadrons.org> (Guillem Jover's message of "Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:38:20 +0200")
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> writes:
> This type is used to pass the sigset_t from userland to the kernel,
> but it was using the kernel native pointer type for the member
> representing the compat userland pointer to the userland sigset_t.
>
> This messes up the layout, and makes the kernel eat up both the
> userland pointer and the size members into the kernel pointer, and
> then reads garbage into the kernel sigsetsize. Which makes the sigset_t
> size consistency check fail, and consequently the syscall always
> returns -EINVAL.
>
> This breaks both libaio and strace on 32-bit userland running on 64-bit
> kernels. And there are apparently no users in the wild of the current
> broken layout (at least according to codesearch.debian.org and a brief
> check over github.com search). So it looks safe to fix this directly
> in the kernel, instead of either letting userland deal with this
> permanently with the additional overhead or trying to make the syscall
> infer what layout userland used, even though this is also being worked
> around in libaio to temporarily cope with kernels that have not yet
> been fixed.
>
> We use a proper compat_uptr_t instead of a compat_sigset_t pointer.
>
> Fixes: 7a074e96 ("aio: implement io_pgetevents")
> Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Looks good, thanks for finding and fixing this!
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
> ---
> fs/aio.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 01e0fb9ae45a..056f291bc66f 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -2179,7 +2179,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(io_getevents_time32, __u32, ctx_id,
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>
> struct __compat_aio_sigset {
> - compat_sigset_t __user *sigmask;
> + compat_uptr_t sigmask;
> compat_size_t sigsetsize;
> };
>
> @@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(io_pgetevents,
> if (usig && copy_from_user(&ksig, usig, sizeof(ksig)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> - ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(ksig.sigmask, ksig.sigsetsize);
> + ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(compat_ptr(ksig.sigmask), ksig.sigsetsize);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> @@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(io_pgetevents_time64,
> if (usig && copy_from_user(&ksig, usig, sizeof(ksig)))
> return -EFAULT;
>
> - ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(ksig.sigmask, ksig.sigsetsize);
> + ret = set_compat_user_sigmask(compat_ptr(ksig.sigmask), ksig.sigsetsize);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-22 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 3:38 [PATCH] aio: Fix io_pgetevents() struct __compat_aio_sigset layout Guillem Jover
2019-08-21 23:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-22 17:53 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2019-10-17 13:48 ` Jan Kara
2019-10-21 20:15 ` Al Viro
2019-10-21 22:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Guillem Jover
2019-10-22 12:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
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