blobmsg: add _len variants for all attribute checking methods

Introduce _len variants of blobmsg attribute checking functions which
aims to provide safer implementation as those functions should limit all
memory accesses performed on the blob to the range [attr, attr + len]
(upper bound non inclusive) and thus should be suited for checking of
untrusted blob attributes.

While at it add some comments in order to make it clear.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Schramm <tobleminer@gmail.com>
[_safe -> _len, blobmsg_check_array_len fix, commit subject/desc facelift]
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz@true.cz>

1 files changed, 54 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/blobmsg.h b/blobmsg.h
index c440159..af88c1f 100644
--- a/blobmsg.h
+++ b/blobmsg.h
@@ -104,19 +104,66 @@ static inline size_t blobmsg_len(const struct blob_attr *attr)
 	return blobmsg_data_len(attr);
 }
 
+/*
+ * blobmsg_check_attr: validate a list of attributes
+ *
+ * This method may be used with trusted data only. Providing
+ * malformed blobs will cause out of bounds memory access.
+ */
 bool blobmsg_check_attr(const struct blob_attr *attr, bool name);
-bool blobmsg_check_attr_list(const struct blob_attr *attr, int type);
 
+/*
+ * blobmsg_check_attr_len: validate a list of attributes
+ *
+ * This method should be safer implementation of blobmsg_check_attr.
+ * It will limit all memory access performed on the blob to the
+ * range [attr, attr + len] (upper bound non inclusive) and is
+ * thus suited for checking of untrusted blob attributes.
+ */
 bool blobmsg_check_attr_len(const struct blob_attr *attr, bool name, size_t len);
 
 /*
+ * blobmsg_check_attr_list: validate a list of attributes
+ *
+ * This method may be used with trusted data only. Providing
+ * malformed blobs will cause out of bounds memory access.
+ */
+bool blobmsg_check_attr_list(const struct blob_attr *attr, int type);
+
+/*
+ * blobmsg_check_attr_list_len: validate a list of untrusted attributes
+ *
+ * This method should be safer implementation of blobmsg_check_attr_list.
+ * It will limit all memory access performed on the blob to the
+ * range [attr, attr + len] (upper bound non inclusive) and is
+ * thus suited for checking of untrusted blob attributes.
+ */
+bool blobmsg_check_attr_list_len(const struct blob_attr *attr, int type, size_t len);
+
+/*
  * blobmsg_check_array: validate array/table and return size
  *
  * Checks if all elements of an array or table are valid and have
  * the specified type. Returns the number of elements in the array
+ *
+ * This method may be used with trusted data only. Providing
+ * malformed blobs will cause out of bounds memory access.
  */
 int blobmsg_check_array(const struct blob_attr *attr, int type);
 
+/*
+ * blobmsg_check_array_len: validate untrusted array/table and return size
+ *
+ * Checks if all elements of an array or table are valid and have
+ * the specified type. Returns the number of elements in the array.
+ *
+ * This method should be safer implementation of blobmsg_check_array.
+ * It will limit all memory access performed on the blob to the
+ * range [attr, attr + len] (upper bound non inclusive) and is
+ * thus suited for checking of untrusted blob attributes.
+ */
+int blobmsg_check_array_len(const struct blob_attr *attr, int type, size_t len);
+
 int blobmsg_parse(const struct blobmsg_policy *policy, int policy_len,
                   struct blob_attr **tb, void *data, unsigned int len);
 int blobmsg_parse_array(const struct blobmsg_policy *policy, int policy_len,
@@ -272,4 +319,10 @@ int blobmsg_printf(struct blob_buf *buf, const char *name, const char *format, .
 	     (blob_pad_len(pos) >= sizeof(struct blob_attr)); \
 	     rem -= blob_pad_len(pos), pos = blob_next(pos))
 
+#define __blobmsg_for_each_attr(pos, attr, rem) \
+	for (pos = (struct blob_attr *) (attr ? blobmsg_data(attr) : NULL); \
+	     rem >= sizeof(struct blob_attr) && (blob_pad_len(pos) <= rem) && \
+	     (blob_pad_len(pos) >= sizeof(struct blob_attr)); \
+	     rem -= blob_pad_len(pos), pos = blob_next(pos))
+
 #endif