fs/proc/kcore.c: use probe_kernel_read() instead of memcpy()
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 6 Feb 2018 23:37:13 +0000 (15:37 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 7 Feb 2018 02:32:43 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
commitd0290bc20d4739b7a900ae37eb5d4cc3be2b393f
treef5b70cc2b188c70c2b5628fa71b51cc9dbe4dfcd
parent171ef917dfe721b1437b0066f7bc5684d776bba8
fs/proc/kcore.c: use probe_kernel_read() instead of memcpy()

Commit df04abfd181a ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext
data") added a bounce buffer to avoid hardened usercopy checks.  Copying
to the bounce buffer was implemented with a simple memcpy() assuming
that it is always valid to read from kernel memory iff the
kern_addr_valid() check passed.

A simple, but pointless, test case like "dd if=/proc/kcore of=/dev/null"
now can easily crash the kernel, since the former execption handling on
invalid kernel addresses now doesn't work anymore.

Also adding a kern_addr_valid() implementation wouldn't help here.  Most
architectures simply return 1 here, while a couple implemented a page
table walk to figure out if something is mapped at the address in
question.

With DEBUG_PAGEALLOC active mappings are established and removed all the
time, so that relying on the result of kern_addr_valid() before
executing the memcpy() also doesn't work.

Therefore simply use probe_kernel_read() to copy to the bounce buffer.
This also allows to simplify read_kcore().

At least on s390 this fixes the observed crashes and doesn't introduce
warnings that were removed with df04abfd181a ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add
bounce buffer for ktext data"), even though the generic
probe_kernel_read() implementation uses uaccess functions.

While looking into this I'm also wondering if kern_addr_valid() could be
completely removed...(?)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171202132739.99971-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Fixes: df04abfd181a ("fs/proc/kcore.c: Add bounce buffer for ktext data")
Fixes: f5509cc18daa ("mm: Hardened usercopy")
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/kcore.c