CVE-2022-48853

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

swiotlb: fix info leak with DMAFROMDEVICE

The problem I'm addressing was discovered by the LTP test covering cve-2018-1000204.

A short description of what happens follows: 1) The test case issues a command code 00 (TEST UNIT READY) via the SGIO interface with: dxferlen == 524288, dxdferdir == SGDXFERFROMDEV and a corresponding dxferp. The peculiar thing about this is that TUR is not reading from the device. 2) In sgstartreq() the invocation of blkrqmapuser() effectively bounces the user-space buffer. As if the device was to transfer into it. Since commit a45b599ad808 ("scsi: sg: allocate with _GFPZERO in sgbuildindirect()") we make sure this first bounce buffer is allocated with GFPZERO. 3) For the rest of the story we keep ignoring that we have a TUR, so the device won't touch the buffer we prepare as if the we had a DMAFROMDEVICE type of situation. My setup uses a virtio-scsi device and the buffer allocated by SG is mapped by the function virtqueueaddsplit() which uses DMAFROMDEVICE for the "in" sgs (here scatter-gather and not scsi generics). This mapping involves bouncing via the swiotlb (we need swiotlb to do virtio in protected guest like s390 Secure Execution, or AMD SEV). 4) When the SCSI TUR is done, we first copy back the content of the second (that is swiotlb) bounce buffer (which most likely contains some previous IO data), to the first bounce buffer, which contains all zeros. Then we copy back the content of the first bounce buffer to the user-space buffer. 5) The test case detects that the buffer, which it zero-initialized, ain't all zeros and fails.

One can argue that this is an swiotlb problem, because without swiotlb we leak all zeros, and the swiotlb should be transparent in a sense that it does not affect the outcome (if all other participants are well behaved).

Copying the content of the original buffer into the swiotlb buffer is the only way I can think of to make swiotlb transparent in such scenarios. So let's do just that if in doubt, but allow the driver to tell us that the whole mapped buffer is going to be overwritten, in which case we can preserve the old behavior and avoid the performance impact of the extra bounce.