From patchwork Mon Mar 12 23:14:42 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" X-Patchwork-Id: 10277653 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3319601A0 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A550928426 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 9987928BBA; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:16:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2EE928426 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5920 invoked by uid 550); 12 Mar 2018 23:16:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 5879 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2018 23:16:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:14:42 -0500 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" To: Pablo Neira Ayuso , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Florian Westphal , "David S. Miller" Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kernel Hardening , Kees Cook , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: cttimeout: remove VLA usage Message-ID: <20180312231442.GA22071@embeddedgus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator4166.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openwall.com X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - embeddedor.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 189.175.117.58 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1evWeS-0041Qd-4P X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (embeddedgus) [189.175.117.58]:45314 X-Source-Auth: gustavo@embeddedor.com X-Email-Count: 9 X-Source-Cap: Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z2F0b3I0MTY2Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it with dynamic memory allocation. From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug. Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c index 6819300..dcd7bd3 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c @@ -51,19 +51,27 @@ ctnl_timeout_parse_policy(void *timeouts, const struct nf_conntrack_l4proto *l4proto, struct net *net, const struct nlattr *attr) { + struct nlattr **tb; int ret = 0; - if (likely(l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_to_obj)) { - struct nlattr *tb[l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_max+1]; + if (!l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_to_obj) + return 0; - ret = nla_parse_nested(tb, l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_max, - attr, l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nla_policy, - NULL); - if (ret < 0) - return ret; + tb = kcalloc(l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_max + 1, sizeof(*tb), + GFP_KERNEL); - ret = l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_to_obj(tb, net, timeouts); - } + if (!tb) + return -ENOMEM; + + ret = nla_parse_nested(tb, l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_max, attr, + l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nla_policy, NULL); + if (ret < 0) + goto err; + + ret = l4proto->ctnl_timeout.nlattr_to_obj(tb, net, timeouts); + +err: + kfree(tb); return ret; }