[PATCH v3 3/7] kprobes: validate the symbol name length

[Naveen N. Rao]

Excerpts from Masami Hiramatsu's message of April 19, 2017 20:07:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:21:02 +0530
> "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> When a kprobe is being registered, we use the symbol_name field to
>> lookup the address where the probe should be placed. Since this is a
>> user-provided field, let's ensure that the length of the string is
>> within expected limits.
> 
> Would we really need this? Of course it may filter out longer
> strings... anyway such name should be rejected by kallsyms.

I felt this would be good to have generically, as kallsyms does many 
string operations on the symbol name, including an unbounded strchr().

> 
> [...]
>> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
>> index 6a128f3a7ed1..bb86681c8a10 100644
>> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
>> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
>> @@ -1382,6 +1382,28 @@ bool within_kprobe_blacklist(unsigned long addr)
>>  	return false;
>>  }
>>  
>> +bool is_valid_kprobe_symbol_name(const char *name)
> 
> This just check the length of symbol_name buffer, and can contain
> some invalid chars.

Yes, I kept the function name generic incase we would like to do more 
validation in future, plus it's shorter than 
is_valid_kprobe_symbol_name_len() ;-)

> 
>> +{
>> +	size_t sym_len;
>> +	char *s;
>> +
>> +	s = strchr(name, ':');

Hmm.. this should be strnchr(). I re-factored the code that moved the 
strnlen() above this below. I'll fix this.

>> +	if (s) {
>> +		sym_len = strnlen(s+1, KSYM_NAME_LEN);
> 
> If you use strnlen() here, you just need to ensure sym_len < KSYM_NAME_LEN.

Hmm.. not sure I follow. Are you saying the check for sym_len <= 0 is 
not needed?

> 
>> +		if (sym_len <= 0 || sym_len >= KSYM_NAME_LEN)
>> +			return false;
>> +		sym_len = (size_t)(s - name);
>> +		if (sym_len <= 0 || sym_len >= MODULE_NAME_LEN)
>> +			return false;
>> +	} else {
>> +		sym_len = strnlen(name, MODULE_NAME_LEN);
>> +		if (sym_len <= 0 || sym_len >= MODULE_NAME_LEN)
> 
> Would you mean KSYM_NAME_LEN here?

Oops... nice catch, Thanks!

- Naveen

> 
>> +			return false;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	return true;
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * If we have a symbol_name argument, look it up and add the offset field
>>   * to it. This way, we can specify a relative address to a symbol.
>> @@ -1397,6 +1419,8 @@ static kprobe_opcode_t *kprobe_addr(struct kprobe *p)
>>  		goto invalid;
>>  
>>  	if (p->symbol_name) {
>> +		if (!is_valid_kprobe_symbol_name(p->symbol_name))
>> +			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>>  		addr = kprobe_lookup_name(p->symbol_name, p->offset);
>>  		if (!addr)
>>  			return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> index 5f688cc724f0..bf73e5f31128 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
>> @@ -704,6 +704,10 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
>>  			pr_info("Return probe must be used without offset.\n");
>>  			return -EINVAL;
>>  		}
>> +		if (!is_valid_kprobe_symbol_name(symbol)) {
>> +			pr_info("Symbol name is too long.\n");
>> +			return -EINVAL;
>> +		}
>>  	}
>>  	argc -= 2; argv += 2;
>>  
>> -- 
>> 2.12.1
>> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
> 
>