vfs: define a generic function to read a file from the kernel

For a while it was looked down upon to directly read files from Linux.
These days there exists a few mechanisms in the kernel that do just
this though to load a file into a local buffer.  There are minor but
important checks differences on each.  This patch set is the first
attempt at resolving some of these differences.

This patch introduces a common function for reading files from the kernel
with the corresponding security post-read hook and function.

Changelog v4+:
- export security_kernel_post_read_file() - Fengguang Wu
v3:
- additional bounds checking - Luis
v2:
- To simplify patch review, re-ordered patches

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index dcd4ac7..6b6668b 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
 #include <linux/oom.h>
 #include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
@@ -831,6 +832,58 @@ int kernel_read(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_read);
 
+int kernel_read_file(struct file *file, void **buf, loff_t *size,
+		     loff_t max_size)
+{
+	loff_t i_size, pos;
+	ssize_t bytes = 0;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode) || max_size < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	i_size = i_size_read(file_inode(file));
+	if (max_size > 0 && i_size > max_size)
+		return -EFBIG;
+	if (i_size <= 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	*buf = vmalloc(i_size);
+	if (!*buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	pos = 0;
+	while (pos < i_size) {
+		bytes = kernel_read(file, pos, (char *)(*buf) + pos,
+				    i_size - pos);
+		if (bytes < 0) {
+			ret = bytes;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		if (bytes == 0)
+			break;
+		pos += bytes;
+	}
+
+	if (pos != i_size) {
+		ret = -EIO;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	ret = security_kernel_post_read_file(file, *buf, i_size);
+	if (!ret)
+		*size = pos;
+
+out:
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		vfree(*buf);
+		*buf = NULL;
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_read_file);
+
 ssize_t read_code(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, loff_t pos, size_t len)
 {
 	ssize_t res = vfs_read(file, (void __user *)addr, len, &pos);