[PATCH 3.18 048/120] floppy: Do not copy a kernel pointer to user memory in FDGETPRM ioctl

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-11T15:37:51Z

From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>

commit 65eea8edc315589d6c993cf12dbb5d0e9ef1fe4e upstream.

The final field of a floppy_struct is the field "name", which is a pointer
to a string in kernel memory. The kernel pointer should not be copied to
user memory. The FDGETPRM ioctl copies a floppy_struct to user memory,
including this "name" field. This pointer cannot be used by the user
and it will leak a kernel address to user-space, which will reveal the
location of kernel code and data and undermine KASLR protection.

Model this code after the compat ioctl which copies the returned data
to a previously cleared temporary structure on the stack (excluding the
name pointer) and copy out to userspace from there. As we already have
an inparam union with an appropriate member and that memory is already
cleared even for read only calls make use of that as a temporary store.

Based on an initial patch by Brian Belleville.

CVE-2018-7755
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Broke up long line.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/block/floppy.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -3459,6 +3459,9 @@ static int fd_locked_ioctl(struct block_
(struct floppy_struct **)&outparam);
if (ret)
return ret;
+ memcpy(&inparam.g, outparam,
+ offsetof(struct floppy_struct, name));
+ outparam = &inparam.g;
break;
case FDMSGON:
UDP->flags |= FTD_MSG;