raw: Prohibit dangerous writes for probed images

If the user neglects to specify the image format, QEMU probes the
image to guess it automatically, for convenience.

Relying on format probing is insecure for raw images (CVE-2008-2004).
If the guest writes a suitable header to the device, the next probe
will recognize a format chosen by the guest.  A malicious guest can
abuse this to gain access to host files, e.g. by crafting a QCOW2
header with backing file /etc/shadow.

Commit 1e72d3b (April 2008) provided -drive parameter format to let
users disable probing.  Commit f965509 (March 2009) extended QCOW2 to
optionally store the backing file format, to let users disable backing
file probing.  QED has had a flag to suppress probing since the
beginning (2010), set whenever a raw backing file is assigned.

All of these additions that allow to avoid format probing have to be
specified explicitly. The default still allows the attack.

In order to fix this, commit 79368c8 (July 2010) put probed raw images
in a restricted mode, in which they wouldn't be able to overwrite the
first few bytes of the image so that they would identify as a different
image. If a write to the first sector would write one of the signatures
of another driver, qemu would instead zero out the first four bytes.
This patch was later reverted in commit 8b33d9e (September 2010) because
it didn't get the handling of unaligned qiov members right.

Today's block layer that is based on coroutines and has qiov utility
functions makes it much easier to get this functionality right, so this
patch implements it.

The other differences of this patch to the old one are that it doesn't
silently write something different than the guest requested by zeroing
out some bytes (it fails the request instead) and that it doesn't
maintain a list of signatures in the raw driver (it calls the usual
probe function instead).

Note that this change doesn't introduce new breakage for false positive
cases where the guest legitimately writes data into the first sector
that matches the signatures of an image format (e.g. for nested virt):
These cases were broken before, only the failure mode changes from
corruption after the next restart (when the wrong format is probed) to
failing the problematic write request.

Also note that like in the original patch, the restrictions only apply
if the image format has been guessed by probing. Explicitly specifying a
format allows guests to write anything they like.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Message-id: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <[email protected]>

block.c

@@ -662,8 +662,8 @@ BlockDriver *bdrv_find_protocol(const char *filename,
  * probing score.
  * Return the first block driver with the highest probing score.
  */
-static BlockDriver *bdrv_probe_all(const uint8_t *buf, int buf_size,
-                                   const char *filename)
+BlockDriver *bdrv_probe_all(const uint8_t *buf, int buf_size,
+                            const char *filename)
 {
     int score_max = 0, score;
     BlockDriver *drv = NULL, *d;
@@ -1489,6 +1489,7 @@ int bdrv_open(BlockDriverState **pbs, const char *filename,
     }
 
     /* Image format probing */
+    bs->probed = !drv;
     if (!drv && file) {
         ret = find_image_format(file, filename, &drv, &local_err);
         if (ret < 0) {

block/raw_bsd.c

@@ -58,8 +58,58 @@ static int coroutine_fn raw_co_readv(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
 static int coroutine_fn raw_co_writev(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
                                       int nb_sectors, QEMUIOVector *qiov)
 {
+    void *buf = NULL;
+    BlockDriver *drv;
+    QEMUIOVector local_qiov;
+    int ret;
+
+    if (bs->probed && sector_num == 0) {
+        /* As long as these conditions are true, we can't get partial writes to
+         * the probe buffer and can just directly check the request. */
+        QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(BLOCK_PROBE_BUF_SIZE != 512);
+        QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE != 512);
+
+        if (nb_sectors == 0) {
+            /* qemu_iovec_to_buf() would fail, but we want to return success
+             * instead of -EINVAL in this case. */
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        buf = qemu_try_blockalign(bs->file, 512);
+        if (!buf) {
+            ret = -ENOMEM;
+            goto fail;
+        }
+
+        ret = qemu_iovec_to_buf(qiov, 0, buf, 512);
+        if (ret != 512) {
+            ret = -EINVAL;
+            goto fail;
+        }
+
+        drv = bdrv_probe_all(buf, 512, NULL);
+        if (drv != bs->drv) {
+            ret = -EPERM;
+            goto fail;
+        }
+
+        /* Use the checked buffer, a malicious guest might be overwriting its
+         * original buffer in the background. */
+        qemu_iovec_init(&local_qiov, qiov->niov + 1);
+        qemu_iovec_add(&local_qiov, buf, 512);
+        qemu_iovec_concat(&local_qiov, qiov, 512, qiov->size - 512);
+        qiov = &local_qiov;
+    }
+
     BLKDBG_EVENT(bs->file, BLKDBG_WRITE_AIO);
-    return bdrv_co_writev(bs->file, sector_num, nb_sectors, qiov);
+    ret = bdrv_co_writev(bs->file, sector_num, nb_sectors, qiov);
+
+fail:
+    if (qiov == &local_qiov) {
+        qemu_iovec_destroy(&local_qiov);
+    }
+    qemu_vfree(buf);
+    return ret;
 }
 
 static int64_t coroutine_fn raw_co_get_block_status(BlockDriverState *bs,
@@ -158,6 +208,18 @@ static int raw_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, int flags,
                     Error **errp)
 {
     bs->sg = bs->file->sg;
+
+    if (bs->probed && !bdrv_is_read_only(bs)) {
+        fprintf(stderr,
+                "WARNING: Image format was not specified for '%s' and probing "
+                "guessed raw.\n"
+                "         Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for "
+                "raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.\n"
+                "         Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the "
+                "restrictions.\n",
+                bs->file->filename);
+    }
+
     return 0;
 }
 

include/block/block_int.h

@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ struct BlockDriverState {
     int sg;        /* if true, the device is a /dev/sg* */
     int copy_on_read; /* if true, copy read backing sectors into image
                          note this is a reference count */
+    bool probed;
 
     BlockDriver *drv; /* NULL means no media */
     void *opaque;
@@ -414,6 +415,8 @@ struct BlockDriverState {
 };
 
 int get_tmp_filename(char *filename, int size);
+BlockDriver *bdrv_probe_all(const uint8_t *buf, int buf_size,
+                            const char *filename);
 
 void bdrv_set_io_limits(BlockDriverState *bs,
                         ThrottleConfig *cfg);