git: d69cc0401472 - main - pf: Set the pfik_group for userspace
Kristof Provost
kp at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 17 13:48:19 UTC 2021
The branch main has been updated by kp:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=d69cc040147284c414dfd1c9f498dcc7c8291a8b
commit d69cc040147284c414dfd1c9f498dcc7c8291a8b
Author: Kristof Provost <kp at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-16 06:50:17 +0000
Commit: Kristof Provost <kp at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2021-05-17 11:48:06 +0000
pf: Set the pfik_group for userspace
Userspace relies on this pointer to work out if the kif is a group or
not. It can't use it for anything else, because it's a pointer to a
kernel address. Substitute 0xfeedc0de for 'true', so that we don't leak
kernel memory addresses to userspace.
PR: 255852
Reviewed by: donner
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30284
---
sys/netpfil/pf/pf_if.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sys/netpfil/pf/pf_if.c b/sys/netpfil/pf/pf_if.c
index 4630098221c8..3c9b53daa28c 100644
--- a/sys/netpfil/pf/pf_if.c
+++ b/sys/netpfil/pf/pf_if.c
@@ -831,6 +831,14 @@ pf_kkif_to_kif(const struct pfi_kkif *kkif, struct pfi_kif *kif)
kif->pfik_flags = kkif->pfik_flags;
kif->pfik_tzero = kkif->pfik_tzero;
kif->pfik_rulerefs = kkif->pfik_rulerefs;
+ /*
+ * Userspace relies on this pointer to decide if this is a group or
+ * not. We don't want to share the actual pointer, because it's
+ * useless to userspace and leaks kernel memory layout information.
+ * So instead we provide 0xfeedcode as 'true' and NULL as 'false'.
+ */
+ kif->pfik_group =
+ kkif->pfik_group ? (struct ifg_group *)0xfeedc0de : NULL;
}
void
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