[4/7] xz: avoid overlapping memcpy() with invalid input with in-place decompression

Commit Message

Jan Beulich Nov. 19, 2021, 10:22 a.m. UTC

From: Lasse Collin <[e-mail]>

With valid files, the safety margin described in lib/decompress_unxz.c
ensures that these buffers cannot overlap. But if the uncompressed size
of the input is larger than the caller thought, which is possible when
the input file is invalid/corrupt, the buffers can overlap. Obviously
the result will then be garbage (and usually the decoder will return
an error too) but no other harm will happen when such an over-run occurs.

This change only affects uncompressed LZMA2 chunks and so this
should have no effect on performance.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <[e-mail]>
[Linux commit: 83d3c4f22a36d005b55f44628f46cc0d319a75e8]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[e-mail]>

Patch

--- a/xen/common/unxz.c
+++ b/xen/common/unxz.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ 
  * memeq and memzero are not used much and any remotely sane implementation
  * is fast enough. memcpy/memmove speed matters in multi-call mode, but
  * the kernel image is decompressed in single-call mode, in which only
- * memcpy speed can matter and only if there is a lot of uncompressible data
+ * memmove speed can matter and only if there is a lot of uncompressible data
  * (LZMA2 stores uncompressible chunks in uncompressed form). Thus, the
  * functions below should just be kept small; it's probably not worth
  * optimizing for speed.
--- a/xen/common/xz/dec_lzma2.c
+++ b/xen/common/xz/dec_lzma2.c
@@ -387,7 +387,14 @@  static void __init dict_uncompressed(str
 
 		*left -= copy_size;
 
-		memcpy(dict->buf + dict->pos, b->in + b->in_pos, copy_size);
+		/*
+		 * If doing in-place decompression in single-call mode and the
+		 * uncompressed size of the file is larger than the caller
+		 * thought (i.e. it is invalid input!), the buffers below may
+		 * overlap and cause undefined behavior with memcpy().
+		 * With valid inputs memcpy() would be fine here.
+		 */
+		memmove(dict->buf + dict->pos, b->in + b->in_pos, copy_size);
 		dict->pos += copy_size;
 
 		if (dict->full < dict->pos)
@@ -397,7 +404,11 @@  static void __init dict_uncompressed(str
 			if (dict->pos == dict->end)
 				dict->pos = 0;
 
-			memcpy(b->out + b->out_pos, b->in + b->in_pos,
+			/*
+			 * Like above but for multi-call mode: use memmove()
+			 * to avoid undefined behavior with invalid input.
+			 */
+			memmove(b->out + b->out_pos, b->in + b->in_pos,
 					copy_size);
 		}
 
@@ -421,6 +432,12 @@  static uint32_t __init dict_flush(struct
 		if (dict->pos == dict->end)
 			dict->pos = 0;
 
+		/*
+		 * These buffers cannot overlap even if doing in-place
+		 * decompression because in multi-call mode dict->buf
+		 * has been allocated by us in this file; it's not
+		 * provided by the caller like in single-call mode.
+		 */
 		memcpy(b->out + b->out_pos, dict->buf + dict->start,
 				copy_size);
 	}