Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2021-09-24

/proc/$pid/chan kernel address exposures (was Re: [proc/wchan] 30a3a19273: leaking-addresses.proc.wchan./proc/bus/input/devices:B:KEY=1000000000007ff980000000007fffebeffdfffeffffffffffffffffffffe)

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-24 01:01:56
Also in: linux-hardening, lkml, oe-lkp, stable

On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 07:25:36PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
On 1/3/21 3:27 PM, kernel test robot wrote:
quoted
FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):

commit: 30a3a192730a997bc4afff5765254175b6fb64f3 ("[PATCH] proc/wchan: Use printk format instead of lookup_symbol_name()")
url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Helge-Deller/proc-wchan-Use-printk-format-instead-of-lookup_symbol_name/20201218-010048
base: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 09162bc32c880a791c6c0668ce0745cf7958f576

in testcase: leaking-addresses
version: leaking-addresses-x86_64-4f19048-1_20201111
[...]
caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
I don't see anything wrong with the wchan patch (30a3a192730a997bc4afff5765254175b6fb64f3),
or that it could have leaked anything.

Maybe the kernel test robot picked up the wchan patch by mistake ?
quoted
[...]
[2 wchan] 0xffffc9000000003c
       ^^^^^

As the root cause of a kernel address exposure, Jann pointed out[2]
commit 152c432b128c, which I've tracked to here, only to discover this
regression was, indeed, reported. :(

So, we have a few things:

1) wchan has been reporting "0" in the default x86 config (ORC unwinder)
   for 4 years now.

2) non-x86 or non-ORC, wchan has been leaking raw kernel addresses since
   commit 152c432b128c (v5.12).

3) the output of scripts/leaking_addresses.pl is hard to read. :)

We can fix 1 and 2 with:
   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210923233105.4045080-1-keescook@chromium.org/ (local)
(though that will need a Cc: stable now...)

If we don't do that, we still need to revert 152c432b128c in v5.12 and
later.

We should likely make leaking_addresses.pl a little more readable while
we're at it.

-Kees

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210921193249.el476vlhg5k6lfcq@shells.gnugeneration.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez2zC=+PuNgezH53HBPZ8CXU5H=vkWx7nJs60G8RXt3w0Q@mail.gmail.com/ (local)

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Kees Cook
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