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authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>2015-11-06 16:30:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-06 17:50:42 -0800
commit3824657c522f19f85a76bd932821174a5557a382 (patch)
treefeaf1871e0c40c88e26c10cf1f17774a1da98b23 /kernel
parentd7ec9a05d6defda8432da574a2a888eed6fc29f6 (diff)
downloadlinux-3824657c522f19f85a76bd932821174a5557a382.tar.bz2
printk: prevent userland from spoofing kernel messages
The following statement of ABI/testing/dev-kmsg is not quite right: It is not possible to inject messages from userspace with the facility number LOG_KERN (0), to make sure that the origin of the messages can always be reliably determined. Userland actually can inject messages with a facility of 0 by abusing the fact that the facility is stored in a u8 data type. By using a facility which is a multiple of 256 the assignment of msg->facility in log_store() implicitly truncates it to 0, i.e. LOG_KERN, allowing users of /dev/kmsg to spoof kernel messages as shown below: The following call... # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0 >/dev/kmsg ...leads to the following log entry (dmesg -x | tail -n 1): user :emerg : [ 66.137758] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty However, this call... # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0x800 >/dev/kmsg ...leads to the slightly different log entry (note the kernel facility): kern :emerg : [ 74.177343] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty Fix that by limiting the user provided facility to 8 bit right from the beginning and catch the truncation early. Fixes: 7ff9554bb578 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length...") Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index b16f35487b67..2ce8826f1053 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ static u32 clear_idx;
#define PREFIX_MAX 32
#define LOG_LINE_MAX (1024 - PREFIX_MAX)
+#define LOG_LEVEL(v) ((v) & 0x07)
+#define LOG_FACILITY(v) ((v) >> 3 & 0xff)
+
/* record buffer */
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
#define LOG_ALIGN 4
@@ -612,7 +615,6 @@ struct devkmsg_user {
static ssize_t devkmsg_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
{
char *buf, *line;
- int i;
int level = default_message_loglevel;
int facility = 1; /* LOG_USER */
size_t len = iov_iter_count(from);
@@ -642,12 +644,13 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
line = buf;
if (line[0] == '<') {
char *endp = NULL;
+ unsigned int u;
- i = simple_strtoul(line+1, &endp, 10);
+ u = simple_strtoul(line + 1, &endp, 10);
if (endp && endp[0] == '>') {
- level = i & 7;
- if (i >> 3)
- facility = i >> 3;
+ level = LOG_LEVEL(u);
+ if (LOG_FACILITY(u) != 0)
+ facility = LOG_FACILITY(u);
endp++;
len -= endp - line;
line = endp;