A new null-ptr-deref Write bug in snd_pcm_format_set_silence
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Mon Sep 5 08:06:40 CEST 2022
On Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:06:05 +0200,
butt3rflyh4ck wrote:
>
> I have tested this patch, it works well.
Great, I'm going to submit a proper patch.
thanks,
Takashi
> Regards,
> butt3rflyh4ck.
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 6:27 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 04 Sep 2022 11:48:37 +0200,
> > butt3rflyh4ck wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi, there is a new null-ptr-deref Write bug in
> > > snd_pcm_format_set_slience in sound/core/pcm_misc.c in the latest
> > > upstream kernel and can reproduce it.
> > > We call SNDCTL_DSP_SYNC and SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED in multiple threads to
> > > trigger the vulnerability.
> > >
> > > See the Call Trace:
> > > ==================================================================
> > > Call Trace:
> > > <TASK>
> > > __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
> > > dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
> > > kasan_report+0xb1/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:495
> > > check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
> > > kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
> > > memset+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/shadow.c:44
> > > snd_pcm_format_set_silence sound/core/pcm_misc.c:441 [inline]
> > > snd_pcm_format_set_silence+0x215/0x350 sound/core/pcm_misc.c:424
> > > snd_pcm_oss_sync+0x60e/0x800 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1690
> > > snd_pcm_oss_ioctl+0x2087/0x3420 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2634
> > > vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
> > > __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
> > > __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
> > > __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:856
> > > do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
> > > do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
> > > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> > > ==================================================================
> > > We can see the function snd_pcm_format_set_silence code below:
> > > ```
> > > int snd_pcm_format_set_silence(snd_pcm_format_t format, void *data,
> > > unsigned int samples)
> > > {
> > > int width;
> > > unsigned char *dst;
> > > const unsigned char *pat;
> > >
> > > if (!valid_format(format))
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > > if (samples == 0)
> > > return 0;
> > > width = pcm_formats[(INT)format].phys; /* physical width */
> > > pat = pcm_formats[(INT)format].silence;
> > > if (!width || !pat)
> > > return -EINVAL;
> > > /* signed or 1 byte data */
> > > if (pcm_formats[(INT)format].signd == 1 || width <= 8) {
> > > unsigned int bytes = samples * width / 8;
> > > memset(data, *pat, bytes); ///// [1] ---------> data is NULL
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > > ......
> > > }
> > > ```
> > > [1], the data pointer is NULL, we can know snd_pcm_format_set_silence
> > > called in line 1690 in sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c from call stack trace.
> > > let we see code below:
> > > ```
> > > static int snd_pcm_oss_sync(struct snd_pcm_oss_file *pcm_oss_file)
> > > {
> > > int err = 0;
> > > unsigned int saved_f_flags;
> > > struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
> > > struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime;
> > > snd_pcm_format_t format;
> > > unsigned long width;
> > > size_t size;
> > >
> > > substream = pcm_oss_file->streams[SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK];
> > > if (substream != NULL) {
> > > runtime = substream->runtime;
> > > if (atomic_read(&substream->mmap_count))
> > > goto __direct;
> > > err = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready(substream);
> > > if (err < 0)
> > > return err;
> > > atomic_inc(&runtime->oss.rw_ref);
> > > if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) {
> > > atomic_dec(&runtime->oss.rw_ref);
> > > return -ERESTARTSYS;
> > > }
> > > format = snd_pcm_oss_format_from(runtime->oss.format);
> > > width = snd_pcm_format_physical_width(format);
> > > if (runtime->oss.buffer_used > 0) {
> > > #ifdef OSS_DEBUG
> > > pcm_dbg(substream->pcm, "sync: buffer_used\n");
> > > #endif
> > > size = (8 * (runtime->oss.period_bytes -
> > > runtime->oss.buffer_used) + 7) / width;
> > > snd_pcm_format_set_silence(format,
> > > runtime->oss.buffer
> > > + runtime->oss.buffer_used, ///// [2]
> > > size);
> > > err = snd_pcm_oss_sync1(substream,
> > > runtime->oss.period_bytes);
> > > if (err < 0)
> > > goto unlock;
> > > } else if (runtime->oss.period_ptr > 0) {
> > >
> > > ```
> > > [2] runtime->oss.buffer + runtime->oss.buffer_used is the data
> > > pointer, but runtime->oss.buffer is NULL here but it doesn't make
> > > sense.
> > > runtime->oss.buffter is allocated by kvzalloc, if runtime->oss_buffer
> > > is NULL, it would return an ENOMEM error.
> > > Maybe I think there is a race condition, the runtime->oss.buffer is
> > > freed and set to NULL but we can use runtime->oss.buffter via ioctl.
> >
> > Yeah, likely it's in a small race window between two calls.
> >
> > Could you try the patch below?
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> > ---
> > --- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
> > +++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
> > @@ -1672,14 +1672,14 @@ static int snd_pcm_oss_sync(struct snd_pcm_oss_file *pcm_oss_file)
> > runtime = substream->runtime;
> > if (atomic_read(&substream->mmap_count))
> > goto __direct;
> > - err = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready(substream);
> > - if (err < 0)
> > - return err;
> > atomic_inc(&runtime->oss.rw_ref);
> > if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&runtime->oss.params_lock)) {
> > atomic_dec(&runtime->oss.rw_ref);
> > return -ERESTARTSYS;
> > }
> > + err = snd_pcm_oss_make_ready_locked(substream);
> > + if (err < 0)
> > + goto unlock;
> > format = snd_pcm_oss_format_from(runtime->oss.format);
> > width = snd_pcm_format_physical_width(format);
> > if (runtime->oss.buffer_used > 0) {
>
>
>
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