[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 88891af4e624635f5219df8a8382feb30670be24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:23:23 -0400
Subject: tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()

commit 057db8488b53d5e4faa0cedb2f39d4ae75dfbdbb upstream.

Andrey reported the following report:

ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address ffff8800359c99f3
ffff8800359c99f3 is located 0 bytes to the right of 243-byte region [ffff8800359c9900, ffff8800359c99f3)
Accessed by thread T13003:
  #0 ffffffff810dd2da (asan_report_error+0x32a/0x440)
  #1 ffffffff810dc6b0 (asan_check_region+0x30/0x40)
  #2 ffffffff810dd4d3 (__tsan_write1+0x13/0x20)
  #3 ffffffff811cd19e (ftrace_regex_release+0x1be/0x260)
  #4 ffffffff812a1065 (__fput+0x155/0x360)
  #5 ffffffff812a12de (____fput+0x1e/0x30)
  #6 ffffffff8111708d (task_work_run+0x10d/0x140)
  #7 ffffffff810ea043 (do_exit+0x433/0x11f0)
  #8 ffffffff810eaee4 (do_group_exit+0x84/0x130)
  #9 ffffffff810eafb1 (SyS_exit_group+0x21/0x30)
  #10 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)

Allocated by thread T5167:
  #0 ffffffff810dc778 (asan_slab_alloc+0x48/0xc0)
  #1 ffffffff8128337c (__kmalloc+0xbc/0x500)
  #2 ffffffff811d9d54 (trace_parser_get_init+0x34/0x90)
  #3 ffffffff811cd7b3 (ftrace_regex_open+0x83/0x2e0)
  #4 ffffffff811cda7d (ftrace_filter_open+0x2d/0x40)
  #5 ffffffff8129b4ff (do_dentry_open+0x32f/0x430)
  #6 ffffffff8129b668 (finish_open+0x68/0xa0)
  #7 ffffffff812b66ac (do_last+0xb8c/0x1710)
  #8 ffffffff812b7350 (path_openat+0x120/0xb50)
  #9 ffffffff812b8884 (do_filp_open+0x54/0xb0)
  #10 ffffffff8129d36c (do_sys_open+0x1ac/0x2c0)
  #11 ffffffff8129d4b7 (SyS_open+0x37/0x50)
  #12 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)

Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
  ffff8800359c9700: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
  ffff8800359c9780: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9800: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9880: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
=>ffff8800359c9980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[03]fb
  ffff8800359c9a00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9a80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
  ffff8800359c9b00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff8800359c9b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ffff8800359c9c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
  Addressable:           00
  Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
  Heap redzone:          fa
  Heap kmalloc redzone:  fb
  Freed heap region:     fd
  Shadow gap:            fe

The out-of-bounds access happens on 'parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;'

Although the crash happened in ftrace_regex_open() the real bug
occurred in trace_get_user() where there's an incrementation to
parser->idx without a check against the size. The way it is triggered
is if userspace sends in 128 characters (EVENT_BUF_SIZE + 1), the loop
that reads the last character stores it and then breaks out because
there is no more characters. Then the last character is read to determine
what to do next, and the index is incremented without checking size.

Then the caller of trace_get_user() usually nulls out the last character
with a zero, but since the index is equal to the size, it writes a nul
character after the allocated space, which can corrupt memory.

Luckily, only root user has write access to this file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131009222323.04fd1a0d@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 09739c6..d570df8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -578,9 +578,12 @@ int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf,
 	if (isspace(ch)) {
 		parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;
 		parser->cont = false;
-	} else {
+	} else if (parser->idx < parser->size - 1) {
 		parser->cont = true;
 		parser->buffer[parser->idx++] = ch;
+	} else {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
 	}

 	*ppos += read;
--
1.8.3.2