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1 files changed, 46 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
index 53ae52dbff84..ba9ba0e04f42 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static int sg_version_num = 30536; /* 2 digits for each component */
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/cred.h> /* for sg_check_file_access() */
#include "scsi.h"
#include <scsi/scsi_dbg.h>
@@ -209,6 +210,33 @@ static void sg_device_destroy(struct kref *kref);
sdev_prefix_printk(prefix, (sdp)->device, \
(sdp)->disk->disk_name, fmt, ##a)
+/*
+ * The SCSI interfaces that use read() and write() as an asynchronous variant of
+ * ioctl(..., SG_IO, ...) are fundamentally unsafe, since there are lots of ways
+ * to trigger read() and write() calls from various contexts with elevated
+ * privileges. This can lead to kernel memory corruption (e.g. if these
+ * interfaces are called through splice()) and privilege escalation inside
+ * userspace (e.g. if a process with access to such a device passes a file
+ * descriptor to a SUID binary as stdin/stdout/stderr).
+ *
+ * This function provides protection for the legacy API by restricting the
+ * calling context.
+ */
+static int sg_check_file_access(struct file *filp, const char *caller)
+{
+ if (filp->f_cred != current_real_cred()) {
+ pr_err_once("%s: process %d (%s) changed security contexts after opening file descriptor, this is not allowed.\n",
+ caller, task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+ if (uaccess_kernel()) {
+ pr_err_once("%s: process %d (%s) called from kernel context, this is not allowed.\n",
+ caller, task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int sg_allow_access(struct file *filp, unsigned char *cmd)
{
struct sg_fd *sfp = filp->private_data;
@@ -393,6 +421,14 @@ sg_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos)
struct sg_header *old_hdr = NULL;
int retval = 0;
+ /*
+ * This could cause a response to be stranded. Close the associated
+ * file descriptor to free up any resources being held.
+ */
+ retval = sg_check_file_access(filp, __func__);
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
+
if ((!(sfp = (Sg_fd *) filp->private_data)) || (!(sdp = sfp->parentdp)))
return -ENXIO;
SCSI_LOG_TIMEOUT(3, sg_printk(KERN_INFO, sdp,
@@ -580,9 +616,11 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos)
struct sg_header old_hdr;
sg_io_hdr_t *hp;
unsigned char cmnd[SG_MAX_CDB_SIZE];
+ int retval;
- if (unlikely(uaccess_kernel()))
- return -EINVAL;
+ retval = sg_check_file_access(filp, __func__);
+ if (retval)
+ return retval;
if ((!(sfp = (Sg_fd *) filp->private_data)) || (!(sdp = sfp->parentdp)))
return -ENXIO;
@@ -1703,15 +1741,11 @@ sg_start_req(Sg_request *srp, unsigned char *cmd)
*
* With scsi-mq enabled, there are a fixed number of preallocated
* requests equal in number to shost->can_queue. If all of the
- * preallocated requests are already in use, then using GFP_ATOMIC with
- * blk_get_request() will return -EWOULDBLOCK, whereas using GFP_KERNEL
- * will cause blk_get_request() to sleep until an active command
- * completes, freeing up a request. Neither option is ideal, but
- * GFP_KERNEL is the better choice to prevent userspace from getting an
- * unexpected EWOULDBLOCK.
- *
- * With scsi-mq disabled, blk_get_request() with GFP_KERNEL usually
- * does not sleep except under memory pressure.
+ * preallocated requests are already in use, then blk_get_request()
+ * will sleep until an active command completes, freeing up a request.
+ * Although waiting in an asynchronous interface is less than ideal, we
+ * do not want to use BLK_MQ_REQ_NOWAIT here because userspace might
+ * not expect an EWOULDBLOCK from this condition.
*/
rq = blk_get_request(q, hp->dxfer_direction == SG_DXFER_TO_DEV ?
REQ_OP_SCSI_OUT : REQ_OP_SCSI_IN, 0);
@@ -2147,6 +2181,7 @@ sg_add_sfp(Sg_device * sdp)
write_lock_irqsave(&sdp->sfd_lock, iflags);
if (atomic_read(&sdp->detaching)) {
write_unlock_irqrestore(&sdp->sfd_lock, iflags);
+ kfree(sfp);
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}
list_add_tail(&sfp->sfd_siblings, &sdp->sfds);