[PATCH] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Tue Aug 3 23:02:30 EDT 2010


This is mostly a copy from the s390 implementation (which copied
from x86 and sparc), except we print a warning if the Kconfig
option is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig.debug         |   14 ++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h |   14 ++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/lib/Makefile          |    3 ++-
 arch/arm/lib/usercopy.c        |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/usercopy.c

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
index 91344af..2cc0cdc 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -128,4 +128,18 @@ config DEBUG_S3C_UART
 	  The uncompressor code port configuration is now handled
 	  by CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT.
 
+config DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
+	bool "Strict user copy size checks"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	help
+	  Enabling this option turns a certain set of sanity checks for user
+	  copy operations into compile time errors.
+
+	  The copy_from_user() etc checks are there to help test if there
+	  are sufficient security checks on the length argument of
+	  the copy operation, by having gcc prove that the argument is
+	  within bounds.
+
+	  If unsure, or if you run an older (pre 4.4) gcc, say N.
+
 endmenu
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 33e4a48..3153e1a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -401,8 +401,22 @@ extern unsigned long __must_check __clear_user_std(void __user *addr, unsigned l
 extern unsigned long __must_check __strncpy_from_user(char *to, const char __user *from, unsigned long count);
 extern unsigned long __must_check __strnlen_user(const char __user *s, long n);
 
+extern void copy_from_user_overflow(void)
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
+	__compiletime_error("copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct")
+#else
+	__compiletime_warning("copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct")
+#endif
+;
+
 static inline unsigned long __must_check copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
 {
+	unsigned int sz = __compiletime_object_size(to);
+
+	if (unlikely(sz != -1 && sz < n)) {
+		copy_from_user_overflow();
+		return n;
+	}
 	if (access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n))
 		n = __copy_from_user(to, from, n);
 	else /* security hole - plug it */
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/Makefile b/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
index 59ff42d..561cf3d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ lib-y		:= backtrace.o changebit.o csumipv6.o csumpartial.o   \
 		   testchangebit.o testclearbit.o testsetbit.o        \
 		   ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o muldi3.o             \
 		   ucmpdi2.o lib1funcs.o div64.o sha1.o               \
-		   io-readsb.o io-writesb.o io-readsl.o io-writesl.o
+		   io-readsb.o io-writesb.o io-readsl.o io-writesl.o \
+		   usercopy.o
 
 mmu-y	:= clear_user.o copy_page.o getuser.o putuser.o
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/arm/lib/usercopy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e57e6e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2009-2010, Code Aurora Forum. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
+ * only version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ * 02110-1301, USA.
+ */
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/bug.h>
+
+void copy_from_user_overflow(void)
+{
+	WARN(1, "Buffer overflow detected!\n");
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_from_user_overflow);
-- 
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