usercopy: WARN() on slab cache usercopy region violations

This patch adds checking of usercopy cache whitelisting, and is modified
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.

The SLAB and SLUB allocators are modified to WARN() on all copy operations
in which the kernel heap memory being modified falls outside of the cache's
defined usercopy region.

Based on an earlier patch from David Windsor.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index f40a571..6d9b1e7 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3813,7 +3813,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
 /*
- * Rejects objects that are incorrectly sized.
+ * Rejects incorrectly sized objects and objects that are to be copied
+ * to/from userspace but do not fall entirely within the containing slab
+ * cache's usercopy region.
  *
  * Returns NULL if check passes, otherwise const char * to name of cache
  * to indicate an error.
@@ -3827,7 +3829,6 @@ void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, struct page *page,
 
 	/* Find object and usable object size. */
 	s = page->slab_cache;
-	object_size = slab_ksize(s);
 
 	/* Reject impossible pointers. */
 	if (ptr < page_address(page))
@@ -3845,10 +3846,24 @@ void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, struct page *page,
 		offset -= s->red_left_pad;
 	}
 
-	/* Allow address range falling entirely within object size. */
-	if (offset <= object_size && n <= object_size - offset)
+	/* Allow address range falling entirely within usercopy region. */
+	if (offset >= s->useroffset &&
+	    offset - s->useroffset <= s->usersize &&
+	    n <= s->useroffset - offset + s->usersize)
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * If the copy is still within the allocated object, produce
+	 * a warning instead of rejecting the copy. This is intended
+	 * to be a temporary method to find any missing usercopy
+	 * whitelists.
+	 */
+	object_size = slab_ksize(s);
+	if (offset <= object_size && n <= object_size - offset) {
+		usercopy_warn("SLUB object", s->name, to_user, offset, n);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	usercopy_abort("SLUB object", s->name, to_user, offset, n);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY */