Re: [PATCH v3] tpm: Actually fail on TPM errors during "get random"

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Apr 01 2019 - 15:10:00 EST


On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:06:07PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> A "get random" may fail with a TPM error, but those codes were returned
> as-is to the caller, which assumed the result was the number of bytes
> that had been written to the target buffer, which could lead to a kernel
> heap memory exposure and over-read.
>
> This fixes tpm1_get_random() to mask positive TPM errors into -EIO, as
> before.
>
> [ 18.092103] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (379) occurred attempting get random
> [ 18.092106] usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'kmalloc-64' (offset 0, size 379)!
>
> Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1650989
> Reported-by: Phil Baker <baker1tex@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Craig Robson <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 7aee9c52d7ac ("tpm: tpm1: rewrite tpm1_get_random() using tpm_buf structure")
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> v3: fix never-succeed, limit checks to tpm cmd return (James, Jason)
> v2: also fix tpm2 implementation (Jason Gunthorpe)
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm1-cmd.c | 7 +++++--
> drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c | 7 +++++--
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm1-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm1-cmd.c
> index 85dcf2654d11..faacbe1ffa1a 100644
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm1-cmd.c
> @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ struct tpm1_get_random_out {
> *
> * Return:
> * * number of bytes read
> - * * -errno or a TPM return code otherwise
> + * * -errno (positive TPM return codes are masked to -EIO)
> */
> int tpm1_get_random(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *dest, size_t max)
> {
> @@ -531,8 +531,11 @@ int tpm1_get_random(struct tpm_chip *chip, u8 *dest, size_t max)
>
> rc = tpm_transmit_cmd(chip, &buf, sizeof(out->rng_data_len),
> "attempting get random");
> - if (rc)
> + if (rc) {
> + if (rc > 0)
> + rc = -EIO;
> goto out;
> + }
>
> out = (struct tpm1_get_random_out *)&buf.data[TPM_HEADER_SIZE];
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> index e74c5b7b64bf..8ffa6af61580 100644
> +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c
> @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ struct tpm2_get_random_out {
> *
> * Return:
> * size of the buffer on success,
> - * -errno otherwise
> + * -errno otherwise ((positive TPM return codes are masked to -EIO)

Extra bracket, but otherwise looks fine to me

Jason