[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 129/130] signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_to_user

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Sep 4 13:08:37 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt17 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu at gmail.com>

commit 26135022f85105ad725cda103fa069e29e83bd16 upstream.

This function may copy the si_addr_lsb, si_lower and si_upper fields to
user mode when they haven't been initialized, which can leak kernel
stack data to user mode.

Just checking the value of si_code is insufficient because the same
si_code value is shared between multiple signals.  This is solved by
checking the value of si_signo in addition to si_code.

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu at gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - dropped 2nd hunk in kernel/signal.c ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c | 3 ++-
 kernel/signal.c              | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
index 070de43fb3b5..bf32174fe11f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 		 * Other callers might not initialize the si_lsb field,
 		 * so check explicitely for the right codes here.
 		 */
-		if (from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AR || from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AO)
+		if (from->si_signo == SIGBUS &&
+		    (from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AR || from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AO))
 			err |= __put_user(from->si_addr_lsb, &to->si_addr_lsb);
 #endif
 		break;
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index a4077e90f19f..11fa21958bf1 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2745,7 +2745,8 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user(siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 		 * Other callers might not initialize the si_lsb field,
 		 * so check explicitly for the right codes here.
 		 */
-		if (from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AR || from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AO)
+		if (from->si_signo == SIGBUS &&
+		    (from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AR || from->si_code == BUS_MCEERR_AO))
 			err |= __put_user(from->si_addr_lsb, &to->si_addr_lsb);
 #endif
 		break;




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