The loader now warns for invalid and out-of-range tunable values. The
patch also fixes the parsing of size_t maximum values, where
_dl_strtoul was failing for large values close to SIZE_MAX.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
The tunable parsing duplicates the tunable environment variable so it
null-terminates each one since it simplifies the later parsing. It has
the drawback of adding another point of failure (__minimal_malloc
failing), and the memory copy requires tuning the compiler to avoid mem
operations calls.
The parsing now tracks the tunable start and its size. The
dl-tunable-parse.h adds helper functions to help parsing, like a strcmp
that also checks for size and an iterator for suboptions that are
comma-separated (used on hwcap parsing by x86, powerpc, and s390x).
Since the environment variable is allocated on the stack by the kernel,
it is safe to keep the references to the suboptions for later parsing
of string tunables (as done by set_hwcaps by multiple architectures).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, and
aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Instead of ignoring ill-formatted tunable strings, first, check all the
tunable definitions are correct and then set each tunable value. It
means that partially invalid strings, like "key1=value1:key2=key2=value'
or 'key1=value':key2=value2=value2' do not enable 'key1=value1'. It
avoids possible user-defined errors in tunable definitions.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Tunable definitions with more than one '=' on are parsed and enabled,
and any subsequent '=' are ignored. It means that tunables in the form
'tunable=tunable=value' or 'tunable=value=value' are handled as
'tunable=value'. These inputs are likely user input errors, which
should not be accepted.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
The tunable privilege levels were a retrofit to try and keep the malloc
tunable environment variables' behavior unchanged across security
boundaries. However, CVE-2023-4911 shows how tricky can be
tunable parsing in a security-sensitive environment.
Not only parsing, but the malloc tunable essentially changes some
semantics on setuid/setgid processes. Although it is not a direct
security issue, allowing users to change setuid/setgid semantics is not
a good security practice, and requires extra code and analysis to check
if each tunable is safe to use on all security boundaries.
It also means that security opt-in features, like aarch64 MTE, would
need to be explicit enabled by an administrator with a wrapper script
or with a possible future system-wide tunable setting.
Co-authored-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
