On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:33:49 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > > I got this with syzkaller: > > ================================================================== > BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref on address 0000000000000020 > Read of size 32 by task syz-executor/22519 > CPU: 1 PID: 22519 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.8.0-rc2+ #169 > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2 > 014 > 0000000000000001 ffff880111a17a00 ffffffff81f9f141 ffff880111a17a90 > ffff880111a17c50 ffff880114584a58 ffff880114584a10 ffff880111a17a80 > ffffffff8161fe3f ffff880100000000 ffff880118d74a48 ffff880118d74a68 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff81f9f141>] dump_stack+0x83/0xb2 > [<ffffffff8161fe3f>] kasan_report_error+0x41f/0x4c0 > [<ffffffff8161ff74>] kasan_report+0x34/0x40 > [<ffffffff82c84b54>] ? snd_timer_user_read+0x554/0x790 > [<ffffffff8161e79e>] check_memory_region+0x13e/0x1a0 > [<ffffffff8161e9c1>] kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 > [<ffffffff82c84b54>] snd_timer_user_read+0x554/0x790 > [<ffffffff82c84600>] ? snd_timer_user_info_compat.isra.5+0x2b0/0x2b0 > [<ffffffff817d0831>] ? proc_fault_inject_write+0x1c1/0x250 > [<ffffffff817d0670>] ? next_tgid+0x2a0/0x2a0 > [<ffffffff8127c278>] ? do_group_exit+0x108/0x330 > [<ffffffff8174653a>] ? fsnotify+0x72a/0xca0 > [<ffffffff81674dfe>] __vfs_read+0x10e/0x550 > [<ffffffff82c84600>] ? snd_timer_user_info_compat.isra.5+0x2b0/0x2b0 > [<ffffffff81674cf0>] ? do_sendfile+0xc50/0xc50 > [<ffffffff81745e10>] ? __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags+0x60/0x60 > [<ffffffff8143fec6>] ? kcov_ioctl+0x56/0x190 > [<ffffffff81e5ada2>] ? common_file_perm+0x2e2/0x380 > [<ffffffff81746b0e>] ? __fsnotify_parent+0x5e/0x2b0 > [<ffffffff81d93536>] ? security_file_permission+0x86/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff816728f5>] ? rw_verify_area+0xe5/0x2b0 > [<ffffffff81675355>] vfs_read+0x115/0x330 > [<ffffffff81676371>] SyS_read+0xd1/0x1a0 > [<ffffffff816762a0>] ? vfs_write+0x4b0/0x4b0 > [<ffffffff82001c2c>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x1c/0x20 > [<ffffffff8150455a>] ? __context_tracking_exit.part.4+0x3a/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff816762a0>] ? vfs_write+0x4b0/0x4b0 > [<ffffffff81005524>] do_syscall_64+0x1c4/0x4e0 > [<ffffffff810052fc>] ? syscall_return_slowpath+0x16c/0x1d0 > [<ffffffff83c3276a>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 > ================================================================== > > There are a couple of problems that I can see: > > - ioctl(SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT), which potentially sets > tu->queue/tu->tqueue to NULL on memory allocation failure, so read() > would get a NULL pointer dereference like the above splat > > - the same ioctl() can free tu->queue/to->tqueue which means read() > could potentially see (and dereference) the freed pointer > > We can fix the NULL pointer dereference by not touching the pointers > until we have allocated the new memory (similar to what is done in > ioctl(SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS)) and we can fix the use-after-free by > taking the ioctl_lock mutex when dereferencing ->queue/->tqueue, since > that's always held over all the ioctl() code. > > Just looking at the code I find it likely that there are more problems > here such as tu->qhead pointing outside the buffer if the size is > changed concurrently using SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS. > > Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > sound/core/timer.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c > index 9a6157e..7899e37 100644 > --- a/sound/core/timer.c > +++ b/sound/core/timer.c > @@ -1602,15 +1602,25 @@ static int snd_timer_user_tselect(struct file *file, > kfree(tu->tqueue); > tu->tqueue = NULL; > if (tu->tread) { > - tu->tqueue = kmalloc(tu->queue_size * sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread), > + struct snd_timer_tread *ttr; > + ttr = kmalloc(tu->queue_size * sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread), > GFP_KERNEL); > - if (tu->tqueue == NULL) > + if (ttr) { > + kfree(tu->tqueue); > + tu->tqueue = ttr; This looks like the double-tree, as you didn't remove the kfree() call in the above. But, I guess this change is superfluous when you introduce the mutex at... > @@ -1958,6 +1968,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, > tu->qused--; > spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock); > > + mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock); > if (tu->tread) { > if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[qhead], > sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread))) ... here. The mutex alone should suffice. thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel