[PATCH] HID: uhid: prevent uhid_char_write() under KERNEL_DS

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Wed Nov 14 2018 - 13:03:08 EST


From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

When a UHID_CREATE command is written to the uhid char device, a
copy_from_user() is done from a user pointer embedded in the command.
When the address limit is KERNEL_DS, e.g. as is the case during
sendfile(), this can read from kernel memory. Therefore, UHID_CREATE
must not be allowed in this case.

For consistency and to make sure all current and future uhid commands
are covered, apply the restriction to uhid_char_write() as a whole
rather than to UHID_CREATE specifically.

Thanks to Dmitry Vyukov for adding uhid definitions to syzkaller and to
Jann Horn for commit 9da3f2b740544 ("x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess
helpers fault on kernel addresses"), allowing this bug to be found.

Reported-by: syzbot+72473edc9bf4eb1c6556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: d365c6cfd337 ("HID: uhid: add UHID_CREATE and UHID_DESTROY events")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.6+
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/uhid.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
index 3c55073136064..e94c5e248b56e 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
@@ -705,6 +705,12 @@ static ssize_t uhid_char_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
int ret;
size_t len;

+ if (uaccess_kernel()) { /* payload may contain a __user pointer */
+ pr_err_once("%s: process %d (%s) called from kernel context, this is not allowed.\n",
+ __func__, task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+
/* we need at least the "type" member of uhid_event */
if (count < sizeof(__u32))
return -EINVAL;
--
2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0-goog