From patchwork Tue Mar 13 00:21:38 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: 10277683 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 B4D2D602BD for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34B928DD4 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 97C6128E11; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:21:55 +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 CC4E628DD4 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1727 invoked by uid 550); 13 Mar 2018 00:21:52 -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 1689 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2018 00:21:52 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:21:38 -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: nfnetlink_cthelper: Remove VLA usage Message-ID: <20180313002138.GA27280@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: 1evXhD-000Ykc-8U X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (embeddedgus) [189.175.117.58]:46642 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_cthelper.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c index d33ce6d..4a4b293 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c @@ -314,23 +314,30 @@ nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_one(const struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *policy, static int nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_all(struct nlattr *tb[], struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper) { - struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy new_policy[helper->expect_class_max + 1]; + struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *new_policy; struct nf_conntrack_expect_policy *policy; - int i, err; + int i, ret = 0; + + new_policy = kmalloc_array(helper->expect_class_max + 1, + sizeof(*new_policy), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!new_policy) + return -ENOMEM; /* Check first that all policy attributes are well-formed, so we don't * leave things in inconsistent state on errors. */ for (i = 0; i < helper->expect_class_max + 1; i++) { - if (!tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET + i]) - return -EINVAL; + if (!tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET + i]) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto err; + } - err = nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_one(&helper->expect_policy[i], + ret = nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_one(&helper->expect_policy[i], &new_policy[i], tb[NFCTH_POLICY_SET + i]); - if (err < 0) - return err; + if (ret < 0) + goto err; } /* Now we can safely update them. */ for (i = 0; i < helper->expect_class_max + 1; i++) { @@ -340,7 +347,9 @@ static int nfnl_cthelper_update_policy_all(struct nlattr *tb[], policy->timeout = new_policy->timeout; } - return 0; +err: + kfree(new_policy); + return ret; } static int nfnl_cthelper_update_policy(struct nf_conntrack_helper *helper,