On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 03:57:17PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> 
> The ADD_PORT operation reads and sanity checks the port id multiple
> times from the untrusted host. This is not safe because a malicious
> host could change it between reads.
> 
> Read the port id only once and cache it for subsequent uses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Amit Shah <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>


I suspect anyone worried about this kind of thing already uses a bounce
buffer. No?  The patch itself makes the code more readable, except maybe
for the READ_ONCE thing.


> ---
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index f4fd5fe7cd3a..6599c2956ba4 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -1563,10 +1563,13 @@ static void handle_control_message(struct 
> virtio_device *vdev,
>       struct port *port;
>       size_t name_size;
>       int err;
> +     unsigned id;
>  
>       cpkt = (struct virtio_console_control *)(buf->buf + buf->offset);
>  
> -     port = find_port_by_id(portdev, virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id));
> +     /* Make sure the host cannot change id under us */
> +     id = virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, READ_ONCE(cpkt->id));
> +     port = find_port_by_id(portdev, id);
>       if (!port &&
>           cpkt->event != cpu_to_virtio16(vdev, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_ADD)) {
>               /* No valid header at start of buffer.  Drop it. */
> @@ -1583,15 +1586,14 @@ static void handle_control_message(struct 
> virtio_device *vdev,
>                       send_control_msg(port, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_READY, 1);
>                       break;
>               }
> -             if (virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id) >=
> -                 portdev->max_nr_ports) {
> +             if (id >= portdev->max_nr_ports) {
>                       dev_warn(&portdev->vdev->dev,
>                               "Request for adding port with "
>                               "out-of-bound id %u, max. supported id: %u\n",
>                               cpkt->id, portdev->max_nr_ports - 1);
>                       break;
>               }
> -             add_port(portdev, virtio32_to_cpu(vdev, cpkt->id));
> +             add_port(portdev, id);
>               break;
>       case VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_REMOVE:
>               unplug_port(port);
> -- 
> 2.39.0

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