kernel/kdbus-copy-small-ioctl-payloads-to-stack.patch

From: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:20:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kdbus: copy small ioctl payloads to stack

Right now, we use memdup_user() on all ioctl payloads. However, most of
the time an ioctl payload is pretty small. 512 bytes on stack seem
reasonable (similar to what poll() does) to speed up small ioctl payloads.
Add a command-buffer to kdbus_args and use it instead of kmalloc() for
reasonably small payloads.

Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
---
 ipc/kdbus/handle.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 ipc/kdbus/handle.h |  5 +++++
 ipc/kdbus/util.c   | 45 ---------------------------------------------
 ipc/kdbus/util.h   |  1 -
 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/kdbus/handle.c b/ipc/kdbus/handle.c
index 6230c7ef4347..07527990a051 100644
--- a/ipc/kdbus/handle.c
+++ b/ipc/kdbus/handle.c
@@ -146,11 +146,32 @@ static int kdbus_args_negotiate(struct kdbus_args *args)
 int __kdbus_args_parse(struct kdbus_args *args, void __user *argp,
 		       size_t type_size, size_t items_offset, void **out)
 {
+	u64 user_size;
 	int ret, i;
 
-	args->cmd = kdbus_memdup_user(argp, type_size, KDBUS_CMD_MAX_SIZE);
-	if (IS_ERR(args->cmd))
-		return PTR_ERR(args->cmd);
+	ret = kdbus_copy_from_user(&user_size, argp, sizeof(user_size));
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+
+	if (user_size < type_size)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (user_size > KDBUS_CMD_MAX_SIZE)
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+
+	if (user_size <= sizeof(args->cmd_buf)) {
+		if (copy_from_user(args->cmd_buf, argp, user_size))
+			return -EFAULT;
+		args->cmd = (void*)args->cmd_buf;
+	} else {
+		args->cmd = memdup_user(argp, user_size);
+		if (IS_ERR(args->cmd))
+			return PTR_ERR(args->cmd);
+	}
+
+	if (args->cmd->size != user_size) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto error;
+	}
 
 	args->cmd->return_flags = 0;
 	args->user = argp;
@@ -207,7 +228,8 @@ int kdbus_args_clear(struct kdbus_args *args, int ret)
 		if (put_user(args->cmd->return_flags,
 			     &args->user->return_flags))
 			ret = -EFAULT;
-		kfree(args->cmd);
+		if (args->cmd != (void*)args->cmd_buf)
+			kfree(args->cmd);
 		args->cmd = NULL;
 	}
 
diff --git a/ipc/kdbus/handle.h b/ipc/kdbus/handle.h
index 93a372d554a2..13c59d975728 100644
--- a/ipc/kdbus/handle.h
+++ b/ipc/kdbus/handle.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ struct kdbus_arg {
  * @argv:		array of items this command supports
  * @user:		set by parser to user-space location of current command
  * @cmd:		set by parser to kernel copy of command payload
+ * @cmd_buf:		512 bytes inline buf to avoid kmalloc() on small cmds
  * @items:		points to item array in @cmd
  * @items_size:		size of @items in bytes
  *
@@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ struct kdbus_arg {
  * The ioctl handler has to pre-fill the flags and allowed items before passing
  * the object to kdbus_args_parse(). The parser will copy the command payload
  * into kernel-space and verify the correctness of the data.
+ *
+ * We use a 512 bytes buffer for small command payloads, to be allocated on
+ * stack on syscall entrance.
  */
 struct kdbus_args {
 	u64 allowed_flags;
@@ -60,6 +64,7 @@ struct kdbus_args {
 
 	struct kdbus_cmd __user *user;
 	struct kdbus_cmd *cmd;
+	u8 cmd_buf[512];
 
 	struct kdbus_item *items;
 	size_t items_size;
diff --git a/ipc/kdbus/util.c b/ipc/kdbus/util.c
index eaa806a27997..72b188330896 100644
--- a/ipc/kdbus/util.c
+++ b/ipc/kdbus/util.c
@@ -50,51 +50,6 @@ int kdbus_copy_from_user(void *dest, void __user *user_ptr, size_t size)
 }
 
 /**
- * kdbus_memdup_user() - copy dynamically sized object from user-space
- * @user_ptr:	user-provided source buffer
- * @sz_min:	minimum object size
- * @sz_max:	maximum object size
- *
- * This copies a dynamically sized object from user-space into kernel-space. We
- * require the object to have a 64bit size field at offset 0. We read it out
- * first, allocate a suitably sized buffer and then copy all data.
- *
- * The @sz_min and @sz_max parameters define possible min and max object sizes
- * so user-space cannot trigger un-bound kernel-space allocations.
- *
- * The same alignment-restrictions as described in kdbus_copy_from_user() apply.
- *
- * Return: pointer to dynamically allocated copy, or ERR_PTR() on failure.
- */
-void *kdbus_memdup_user(void __user *user_ptr, size_t sz_min, size_t sz_max)
-{
-	void *ptr;
-	u64 size;
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = kdbus_copy_from_user(&size, user_ptr, sizeof(size));
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ERR_PTR(ret);
-
-	if (size < sz_min)
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
-	if (size > sz_max)
-		return ERR_PTR(-EMSGSIZE);
-
-	ptr = memdup_user(user_ptr, size);
-	if (IS_ERR(ptr))
-		return ptr;
-
-	if (*(u64 *)ptr != size) {
-		kfree(ptr);
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-	}
-
-	return ptr;
-}
-
-/**
  * kdbus_verify_uid_prefix() - verify UID prefix of a user-supplied name
  * @name:	user-supplied name to verify
  * @user_ns:	user-namespace to act in
diff --git a/ipc/kdbus/util.h b/ipc/kdbus/util.h
index 740b19880985..9fedf8ab41cd 100644
--- a/ipc/kdbus/util.h
+++ b/ipc/kdbus/util.h
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ int kdbus_verify_uid_prefix(const char *name, struct user_namespace *user_ns,
 int kdbus_sanitize_attach_flags(u64 flags, u64 *attach_flags);
 
 int kdbus_copy_from_user(void *dest, void __user *user_ptr, size_t size);
-void *kdbus_memdup_user(void __user *user_ptr, size_t sz_min, size_t sz_max);
 
 struct kvec;