Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report:
[ 62.982337] ————[ cut here ]————
[ 62.985692] cgroup: Invalid name
[ 62.986211] UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../block/ioctl.c:36:46
[ 62.989370] 9pnet_fd: p9_fd_create_tcp (7343): problem connecting socket to 127.0.0.1
[ 62.992992] 9223372036854775807 + 4095 cannot be represented in type ’long long'
[ 62.997827] 9pnet_fd: p9_fd_create_tcp (7345): problem connecting socket to 127.0.0.1
[ 62.999369] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[ 63.000634] GUP no longer grows the stack in syz-executor.2 (7353): 20002000-20003000 (20001000)
[ 63.000668] CPU: 0 PID: 7353 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-00035-gb3ef86b5a957 #1
[ 63.000677] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 63.000682] Call Trace:
[ 63.000686]
Historically, the signed integer overflow sanitizer did not work in the
kernel due to its interaction with -fwrapv but this has since been
changed 1 in the newest version of Clang; It was re-enabled in the
kernel with Commit 557f8c582a9ba8ab (“ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow
sanitizer”).
Let’s rework this overflow checking logic to not actually perform an overflow during the check itself, thus avoiding the UBSAN splat.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
Running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer overflow sanitizer shows this report:
[ 62.982337] ————[ cut here ]————
[ 62.985692] cgroup: Invalid name
[ 62.986211] UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../block/ioctl.c:36:46
[ 62.989370] 9pnet_fd: p9_fd_create_tcp (7343): problem connecting socket to 127.0.0.1
[ 62.992992] 9223372036854775807 + 4095 cannot be represented in type ’long long'
[ 62.997827] 9pnet_fd: p9_fd_create_tcp (7345): problem connecting socket to 127.0.0.1
[ 62.999369] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
[ 63.000634] GUP no longer grows the stack in syz-executor.2 (7353): 20002000-20003000 (20001000)
[ 63.000668] CPU: 0 PID: 7353 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-00035-gb3ef86b5a957 #1
[ 63.000677] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 63.000682] Call Trace:
[ 63.000686]
Historically, the signed integer overflow sanitizer did not work in the
kernel due to its interaction with -fwrapv but this has since been
changed 1 in the newest version of Clang; It was re-enabled in the
kernel with Commit 557f8c582a9ba8ab (“ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow
sanitizer”).
Let’s rework this overflow checking logic to not actually perform an overflow during the check itself, thus avoiding the UBSAN splat.