Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 5 authors, 2021-02-08

Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/signal: Prevent an alternate stack overflow before a signal delivery

From: Bae, Chang Seok <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-08 21:28:56
Also in: linux-api, lkml

On Nov 24, 2020, at 10:41, Jann Horn [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 7:22 PM Bae, Chang Seok
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
quoted
On Nov 20, 2020, at 15:04, Jann Horn [off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 8:40 PM Chang S. Bae [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index ee6f1ceaa7a2..cee41d684dc2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -251,8 +251,13 @@ get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct pt_regs *regs, size_t frame_size,

      /* This is the X/Open sanctioned signal stack switching.  */
      if (ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_ONSTACK) {
-               if (sas_ss_flags(sp) == 0)
+               if (sas_ss_flags(sp) == 0) {
+                       /* If the altstack might overflow, die with SIGSEGV: */
+                       if (!altstack_size_ok(current))
+                               return (void __user *)-1L;
+
                      sp = current->sas_ss_sp + current->sas_ss_size;
+               }
A couple lines further down, we have this (since commit 14fc9fbc700d):

      /*
       * If we are on the alternate signal stack and would overflow it, don't.
       * Return an always-bogus address instead so we will die with SIGSEGV.
       */
      if (onsigstack && !likely(on_sig_stack(sp)))
              return (void __user *)-1L;

Is that not working?
onsigstack is set at the beginning here. If a signal hits under normal stack,
this flag is not set. Then it will miss the overflow.

The added check allows to detect the sigaltstack overflow (always).
Ah, I think I understand what you're trying to do. But wouldn't the
better approach be to ensure that the existing on_sig_stack() check is
also used if we just switched to the signal stack? Something like:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
index be0d7d4152ec..2f57842fb4d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/signal.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct
pt_regs *regs, size_t frame_size,
       unsigned long math_size = 0;
       unsigned long sp = regs->sp;
       unsigned long buf_fx = 0;
-       int onsigstack = on_sig_stack(sp);
+       bool onsigstack = on_sig_stack(sp);
       int ret;

       /* redzone */
@@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ get_sigframe(struct k_sigaction *ka, struct
pt_regs *regs, size_t frame_size,

       /* This is the X/Open sanctioned signal stack switching.  */
       if (ka->sa.sa_flags & SA_ONSTACK) {
-               if (sas_ss_flags(sp) == 0)
+               if (sas_ss_flags(sp) == 0) {
                       sp = current->sas_ss_sp + current->sas_ss_size;
+                       onsigstack = true;
FWIW, here. 

Thanks to the report by Oliver via the kernel test robot, I realized that
this needs to be conditional on the SS_AUTODISARM tag like, :

    onsigstack = !(current->sas_ss_flags & SS_AUTODISARM);

Thanks,
Chang
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