SKB data area allocations (as done from alloc_skb()) use kmalloc(). These allocations can be variably sized and their contents can be more or less controlled from userspace, which makes them useful for attackers that want to overwrite a use-after-free'd object from the same kmalloc slab (which often just requires the sizes to roughly match into the same kmalloc bucket). [0] is an easy example of an exploit that uses netlink skb allocation to target another similarly-sized accidentally freed object.
While other mitigations like CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES exist, these are probabilistic. Use the existing kmem buckets API to further isolate these allocations in a guaranteed fashion, when CONFIG_SLAB_BUCKETS=y. Link: https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs/linux/kernelctf/CVE-2023-4207_lts_cos_mitigation_2/docs/exploit.md [0] Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]> --- net/core/skbuff.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 44a7f8401468..ac9fed7461ba 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -584,6 +584,8 @@ struct sk_buff *napi_build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_build_skb); +static kmem_buckets *skb_data_buckets __ro_after_init; + static void *kmalloc_pfmemalloc(size_t obj_size, gfp_t flags, int node) { if (!gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(flags)) @@ -591,7 +593,8 @@ static void *kmalloc_pfmemalloc(size_t obj_size, gfp_t flags, int node) if (!obj_size) return kmem_cache_alloc_node(net_hotdata.skb_small_head_cache, flags, node); - return kmalloc_node_track_caller(obj_size, flags, node); + return kmem_buckets_alloc_node_track_caller(skb_data_buckets, obj_size, + flags, node); } /* @@ -632,7 +635,7 @@ static void *kmalloc_reserve(unsigned int *size, gfp_t flags, int node, * Try a regular allocation, when that fails and we're not entitled * to the reserves, fail. */ - obj = kmalloc_node_track_caller(obj_size, + obj = kmem_buckets_alloc_node_track_caller(skb_data_buckets, obj_size, flags | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN, node); if (likely(obj)) @@ -5213,6 +5216,7 @@ void __init skb_init(void) 0, SKB_SMALL_HEAD_HEADROOM, NULL); + skb_data_buckets = kmem_buckets_create("skb_data", SLAB_PANIC, 0, INT_MAX, NULL); skb_extensions_init(); } -- 2.54.0
