Re: [PATCH] bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 07:26:32PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The current implementation does a naive search of "bootconfig" on the kernel
> command line. But this could find "bootconfig" that is part of another
> option in quotes (although highly unlikely). But it also needs to find '--'
> on the kernel command line to know if it should append a '--' or not when a
> bootconfig in the initrd file has an "init" section. The check uses the
> naive strstr() to find to see if it exists. But this can return a false
> positive if it exists in an option and then the "init" section in the initrd
> will not be appended properly.
> 
> Using parse_args() to find both of these will solve both of these problems.
> 
> Link: 202002070954.C18E7F58B@keescook">https://lore.kernel.org/r/202002070954.C18E7F58B@keescook
> 
> Fixes: 7495e0926fdf3 ("bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline")
> Fixes: 1319916209ce8 ("bootconfig: init: Allow admin to use bootconfig for init command line")
> Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Cool; thanks for fixing this!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
>  init/main.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 491f1cdb3105..e7261f1a3523 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ static char *extra_command_line;
>  /* Extra init arguments */
>  static char *extra_init_args;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG
> +/* Is bootconfig on command line? */
> +static bool bootconfig_found;
> +static bool initargs_found;
> +#else
> +# define bootconfig_found false
> +# define initargs_found false
> +#endif
> +
>  static char *execute_command;
>  static char *ramdisk_execute_command;
>  
> @@ -336,17 +345,31 @@ u32 boot_config_checksum(unsigned char *p, u32 size)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static int __init bootconfig_params(char *param, char *val,
> +				    const char *unused, void *arg)
> +{
> +	if (strcmp(param, "bootconfig") == 0) {
> +		bootconfig_found = true;
> +	} else if (strcmp(param, "--") == 0) {
> +		initargs_found = true;
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static void __init setup_boot_config(const char *cmdline)
>  {
> +	static char tmp_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] __initdata;
>  	u32 size, csum;
>  	char *data, *copy;
>  	const char *p;
>  	u32 *hdr;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	p = strstr(cmdline, "bootconfig");
> -	if (!p || (p != cmdline && !isspace(*(p-1))) ||
> -	    (p[10] && !isspace(p[10])))
> +	strlcpy(tmp_cmdline, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
> +	parse_args("bootconfig", tmp_cmdline, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL,
> +		   bootconfig_params);
> +
> +	if (!bootconfig_found)
>  		return;
>  
>  	if (!initrd_end)
> @@ -563,11 +586,12 @@ static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line)
>  		 * to init.
>  		 */
>  		len = strlen(saved_command_line);
> -		if (!strstr(boot_command_line, " -- ")) {
> +		if (initargs_found) {
> +			saved_command_line[len++] = ' ';
> +		} else {
>  			strcpy(saved_command_line + len, " -- ");
>  			len += 4;
> -		} else
> -			saved_command_line[len++] = ' ';
> +		}
>  
>  		strcpy(saved_command_line + len, extra_init_args);
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

-- 
Kees Cook