On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:45:54PM -0800, Daniel Xu wrote:
> do_strncpy_from_user() may copy some extra bytes after the NUL
> terminator into the destination buffer. This usually does not matter for
> normal string operations. However, when BPF programs key BPF maps with
> strings, this matters a lot.
>
> A BPF program may read strings from user memory by calling the
> bpf_probe_read_user_str() helper which eventually calls
> do_strncpy_from_user(). The program can then key a map with the
> resulting string. BPF map keys are fixed-width and string-agnostic,
> meaning that map keys are treated as a set of bytes.
>
> The issue is when do_strncpy_from_user() overcopies bytes after the NUL
> terminator, it can result in seemingly identical strings occupying
> multiple slots in a BPF map. This behavior is subtle and totally
> unexpected by the user.
>
> This commit has strncpy start copying a byte at a time if a NUL is
> spotted.
>
> Fixes: 6ae08ae3dea2 ("bpf: Add probe_read_{user, kernel} and
> probe_read_{user, kernel}_str helpers")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <[email protected]>
> ---
> lib/strncpy_from_user.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
> index e6d5fcc2cdf3..83180742e729 100644
> --- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
> +++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
> @@ -40,12 +40,11 @@ static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const
> char __user *src,
> /* Fall back to byte-at-a-time if we get a page fault */
> unsafe_get_user(c, (unsigned long __user *)(src+res),
> byte_at_a_time);
>
> + if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants))
> + goto byte_at_a_time;
> +
> *(unsigned long *)(dst+res) = c;
> - if (has_zero(c, &data, &constants)) {
> - data = prep_zero_mask(c, data, &constants);
> - data = create_zero_mask(data);
> - return res + find_zero(data);
> - }
> +
> res += sizeof(unsigned long);
> max -= sizeof(unsigned long);
> }
The fix looks good to me. It's indeed better than v4 approach.
Linus,
I think you might have an opinion about it.
Please see commit log for the reason we need this fix.
