Re: [PATCH 1/1] aio: make sure the input "timeout" value is valid

From: Benjamin LaHaise
Date: Wed Dec 13 2017 - 11:29:51 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 06:11:12AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 09:42:52PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote:
> > Below information is reported by a lower kernel version, and I saw the
> > problem still exist in current version.
>
> I think you're right, but what an awful interface we have here!
> The user must not only fetch it, they must validate it separately?
> And if they forget, then userspace is provoking undefined behaviour? Ugh.
> Why not this:

That looks far better!

Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>

-ben

> diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
> index 4adbdcbe753a..fdd16cf897c8 100644
> --- a/fs/aio.c
> +++ b/fs/aio.c
> @@ -1788,8 +1788,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(io_getevents, aio_context_t, ctx_id,
> struct timespec64 ts;
>
> if (timeout) {
> - if (unlikely(get_timespec64(&ts, timeout)))
> - return -EFAULT;
> + int error = get_valid_timespec64(&ts, timeout);
> + if (error)
> + return error;
> }
>
> return do_io_getevents(ctx_id, min_nr, nr, events, timeout ? &ts : NULL);
> @@ -1805,9 +1806,9 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(io_getevents, compat_aio_context_t, ctx_id,
> struct timespec64 t;
>
> if (timeout) {
> - if (compat_get_timespec64(&t, timeout))
> - return -EFAULT;
> -
> + int error = compat_get_valid_timespec64(&t, timeout);
> + if (error)
> + return error;
> }
>
> return do_io_getevents(ctx_id, min_nr, nr, events, timeout ? &t : NULL);
> diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
> index 0fc36406f32c..578fc0f208d9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compat.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compat.h
> @@ -172,6 +172,26 @@ extern int get_compat_itimerspec64(struct itimerspec64 *its,
> extern int put_compat_itimerspec64(const struct itimerspec64 *its,
> struct compat_itimerspec __user *uits);
>
> +static inline __must_check
> +int compat_get_valid_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts, const void __user *uts)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(compat_get_timespec64(ts, uts)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + if (unlikely(!timespec64_valid(ts)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline __must_check
> +int compat_get_strict_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts, const void __user *uts)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(compat_get_timespec64(ts, uts)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + if (unlikely(!timespec64_valid_strict(ts)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> struct compat_iovec {
> compat_uptr_t iov_base;
> compat_size_t iov_len;
> diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
> index 4b62a2c0a661..506d87483d04 100644
> --- a/include/linux/time.h
> +++ b/include/linux/time.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,26 @@ int get_itimerspec64(struct itimerspec64 *it,
> int put_itimerspec64(const struct itimerspec64 *it,
> struct itimerspec __user *uit);
>
> +static inline __must_check int get_valid_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts,
> + const struct timespec __user *uts)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(get_timespec64(ts, uts)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + if (unlikely(!timespec64_valid(ts)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline __must_check int get_strict_timespec64(struct timespec64 *ts,
> + const struct timespec __user *uts)
> +{
> + if (unlikely(get_timespec64(ts, uts)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + if (unlikely(!timespec64_valid_strict(ts)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> extern time64_t mktime64(const unsigned int year, const unsigned int mon,
> const unsigned int day, const unsigned int hour,
> const unsigned int min, const unsigned int sec);
>

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