Re: [PATCH v2] perf/ring_buffer: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

[Kees Cook]

On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 07:31:24PM +0200, Erick Archer wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2024 at 05:24:55PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > Le 05/05/2024 à 16:15, Erick Archer a écrit :
> > > diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> > > index 4013408ce012..080537eff69f 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
> > > @@ -822,9 +822,7 @@ struct perf_buffer *rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags)
> > >   	unsigned long size;
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Should size be size_t?
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't have enough knowledge to answer this question.
> The "size" variable is used as a return value by struct_size and as
> a parameter to the order_base_2() and kzalloc_node() functions.

For Linux, size_t and unsigned long are the same (currently).
Pedantically, yes, this should be size_t, but it's the same.

> [...]
> > 	all_buf = vmalloc_user((nr_pages + 1) * PAGE_SIZE);
> >	if (!all_buf)
> >		goto fail_all_buf;
> >
> >	rb->user_page = all_buf;
> >	rb->data_pages[0] = all_buf + PAGE_SIZE;
> >	if (nr_pages) {					<--- here
> >		rb->nr_pages = 1;			<---
> >		rb->page_order = ilog2(nr_pages);
> >	}
> [...]
> I think that we don't need to deal with the "nr_pages = 0" case
> since the flex array will always have a length of one.
> 
> Kees, can you help us with this?

Agh, this code hurt my head for a while.

all_buf contains "nr_pages + 1" pages. all_buf gets attached to
rb->user_page, and then rb->data_pages[0] points to the second page in
all_buf... which means, I guess, that rb->data_pages does only have 1
entry.

However, the nr_pages == 0 case is weird. Currently, data_pages[0] will
still get set (which points ... off the end of all_buf). If we
unconditionally set rb->nr_pages to 1, we're changing the behavior. If
we _don't_ set rb->data_pages[0], we're changing the behavior, but I
think it's an invalid pointer anyway, so this is the safer change to
make. I suspect the right replacement is:


diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 4013408ce012..7d638ce76799 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -916,15 +916,11 @@ void rb_free(struct perf_buffer *rb)
 struct perf_buffer *rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags)
 {
 	struct perf_buffer *rb;
-	unsigned long size;
 	void *all_buf;
 	int node;
 
-	size = sizeof(struct perf_buffer);
-	size += sizeof(void *);
-
 	node = (cpu == -1) ? cpu : cpu_to_node(cpu);
-	rb = kzalloc_node(size, GFP_KERNEL, node);
+	rb = kzalloc_node(struct_size(rb, nr_pages, 1), GFP_KERNEL, node);
 	if (!rb)
 		goto fail;
 
@@ -935,9 +931,9 @@ struct perf_buffer *rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags)
 		goto fail_all_buf;
 
 	rb->user_page = all_buf;
-	rb->data_pages[0] = all_buf + PAGE_SIZE;
 	if (nr_pages) {
 		rb->nr_pages = 1;
+		rb->data_pages[0] = all_buf + PAGE_SIZE;
 		rb->page_order = ilog2(nr_pages);
 	}
 


Also, why does rb_alloc() take an "int" nr_pages? The only caller has an
unsigned long argument for nr_pages. Nothing checks for >INT_MAX that I
can find.

-- 
Kees Cook