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    ethtool: fix a privilege escalation bug · 95c33764
    Wenwen Wang authored
    [ Upstream commit 58f5bbe3 ]
    
    In dev_ethtool(), the eth command 'ethcmd' is firstly copied from the
    use-space buffer 'useraddr' and checked to see whether it is
    ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE. If yes, the sub-command 'sub_cmd' is further copied from
    the user space. Otherwise, 'sub_cmd' is the same as 'ethcmd'. Next,
    according to 'sub_cmd', a permission check is enforced through the function
    ns_capable(). For example, the permission check is required if 'sub_cmd' is
    ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE, but it is not necessary if 'sub_cmd' is
    ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE, as suggested in the comment "Allow some commands to be
    done by anyone". The following execution invokes different handlers
    according to 'ethcmd'. Specifically, if 'ethcmd' is ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE,
    ethtool_set_per_queue() is called. In ethtool_set_per_queue(), the kernel
    object 'per_queue_opt' is copied again from the user-space buffer
    'useraddr' and 'per_queue_opt.sub_command' is used to determine which
    operation should be performed. Given that the buffer 'useraddr' is in the
    user space, a malicious user can race to change the sub-command between the
    two copies. In particular, the attacker can supply ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE and
    ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to bypass the permission check in dev_ethtool(). Then
    before ethtool_set_per_queue() is called, the attacker changes
    ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE to ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE. In this way, the attacker can
    bypass the permission check and execute ETHTOOL_SCOALESCE.
    
    This patch enforces a check in ethtool_set_per_queue() after the second
    copy from 'useraddr'. If the sub-command is different from the one obtained
    in the first copy in dev_ethtool(), an error code EINVAL will be returned.
    
    Fixes: f38d138a ("net/ethtool: support set coalesce per queue")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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