[rds-devel] [Security] TIPC security issues
Andy Grover
andy.grover at oracle.com
Thu Oct 28 11:45:04 PDT 2010
On 10/28/2010 08:32 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Heh. We apparently have _another_ iovec overflow in networking. This time rds.
>
> Reported by Thomas Pollet<thomas.pollet at gmail.com>: look at
> net/rds/rdma.c around line 490. It doesn't use the regular iovec code,
> instead it cooks its own, and has a few problems with overflow.
>
> It gathers the number of pages into an "unsigned int", and for each
> entry in its own rds_iovec it will check that the size is< UINT_MAX,
> and then generate the number of pages for that entry. With the whole
> "unaligned address adds one" logic, it means that each entry can get
> (UINT_MAX>> PAGE_SHIFT)+1 pages.
FWIW both the signed issue and not checking the iovec changed were
correct in 2.6.36, and only added in ff87e97.
> And how many entries can we have? Apparently that is capped to
> UINT_MAX too. So add all those up, and they can easily overflow the
> unsigned int page counter.
>
> So this time fixing verify_iovec() doesn't help, because rds just
> cooks its own, and this is using a totally different interface: it
> seems to hook into sendmsg, but it looks like it uses the ancillary
> data objects and passes in its own magical iovec rather than use any
> "normal" iovec thing. I don't know the code, I may be totally off.
Yes that's right, it's to map a memory region that will be the target of
an RDMA operation. I don't know why struct rds_iovec was used instead of
struct iovec, but I think we're stuck, since it's part of our socket API.
I'll send DaveM patches to fix those two immediately-identified problems
today, and we'll take a good long look at the rest of the code for
further issues.
Regards -- Andy
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