We must properly handle an errors when we increase the rlimit counter and the ucounts reference counter. We have to this with RCU protection to prevent possible use-after-free that could occur due to concurrent put_cred_rcu(). The following reproducer triggers the problem: $ cat testcase.sh case "${STEP:-0}" in 0) ulimit -Si 1 ulimit -Hi 1 STEP=1 unshare -rU "$0" killall sleep ;; 1) for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do unshare -rU sleep 5 & done ;; esac [ 84.670919] ================================================================== [ 84.673326] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in put_ucounts+0x17/0xa0 [ 84.674983] Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880045f031c by task swapper/2/0 [ 84.676702] [ 84.677119] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 5.13.0+ #19 [ 84.678920] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-alt4 04/01/2014 [ 84.683128] Call Trace: [ 84.683950] <IRQ> [ 84.684635] dump_stack+0x8a/0xb5 [ 84.685751] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x18/0x130 [ 84.687633] ? put_ucounts+0x17/0xa0 [ 84.688831] ? put_ucounts+0x17/0xa0 [ 84.690050] kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x111 [ 84.691413] ? put_ucounts+0x17/0xa0 [ 84.692618] kasan_check_range+0xf9/0x1e0 [ 84.694039] put_ucounts+0x17/0xa0 [ 84.695237] put_cred_rcu+0xd5/0x190 [ 84.696998] rcu_core+0x3bf/0xcb0 [ 84.699692] ? note_gp_changes+0x90/0x90 [ 84.700938] ? recalibrate_cpu_khz+0x10/0x10 [ 84.702575] ? lapic_timer_set_periodic+0x30/0x30 [ 84.704152] ? clockevents_program_event+0xd3/0x130 [ 84.705754] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x418/0x440 [ 84.707198] __do_softirq+0xe3/0x341 [ 84.708412] irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0xe0 [ 84.709572] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x90 [ 84.711235] </IRQ> [ 84.711972] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [ 84.713661] RIP: 0010:default_idle+0xb/0x10 [ 84.715070] Code: ff f0 80 63 02 df 5b 41 5c c3 0f ae f0 0f ae 3b 0f ae f0 eb 90 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 eb 07 0f 00 2d 37 7d 5a 5 [ 84.721579] RSP: 0018:ffffc900000dfe80 EFLAGS: 00000202 [ 84.723330] RAX: ffffffffad279280 RBX: ffff8880013f3e00 RCX: ffffffffad269c56 [ 84.725724] RDX: 000000000001a8c6 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff8880361322a0 [ 84.728085] RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8880361322a3 [ 84.730485] R10: ffffed1006c26454 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002 [ 84.732814] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff9200001bfd6 [ 84.736325] ? mwait_idle+0xc0/0xc0 [ 84.737488] ? rcu_eqs_enter.constprop.0+0x86/0xa0 [ 84.739085] default_idle_call+0x53/0x130 [ 84.740410] do_idle+0x311/0x3c0 [ 84.741512] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x7b/0xd0 [ 84.743060] ? arch_cpu_idle_exit+0x30/0x30 [ 84.744442] ? swake_up_locked+0x6d/0x80 [ 84.745673] cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 [ 84.746657] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc2/0xcb [ 84.747746] [ 84.748073] Allocated by task 127: [ 84.748742] kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40 [ 84.750483] __kasan_kmalloc+0x7c/0x90 [ 84.751359] alloc_ucounts+0x169/0x2b0 [ 84.752270] set_cred_ucounts+0xbb/0x170 [ 84.753266] ksys_unshare+0x24c/0x4e0 [ 84.754194] __x64_sys_unshare+0x16/0x20 [ 84.755332] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x70 [ 84.756503] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 84.758106] [ 84.758625] Freed by task 0: [ 84.759589] kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40 [ 84.760841] kasan_set_track+0x1c/0x30 [ 84.762082] kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30 [ 84.763421] __kasan_slab_free+0xeb/0x120 [ 84.764736] kfree+0xaa/0x460 [ 84.765722] put_cred_rcu+0xd5/0x190 [ 84.766925] rcu_core+0x3bf/0xcb0 [ 84.768074] __do_softirq+0xe3/0x341 [ 84.769262] [ 84.769765] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880045f0300 [ 84.769765] which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192 [ 84.773675] The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of [ 84.773675] 192-byte region [ffff8880045f0300, ffff8880045f03c0) [ 84.778876] The buggy address belongs to the page: [ 84.780338] page:000000008de0a388 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8880045f0000 pfn:0x45f0 [ 84.782844] flags: 0x100000000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1) [ 84.784640] raw: 0100000000000200 ffffea00000f4640 0000000a0000000a ffff888001042a00 [ 84.787229] raw: ffff8880045f0000 000000008010000d 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 84.789685] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected [ 84.791511] [ 84.792037] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 84.793590] ffff8880045f0200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 84.795920] ffff8880045f0280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 84.798252] >ffff8880045f0300: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 84.800636] ^ [ 84.801953] ffff8880045f0380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 84.804261] ffff8880045f0400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 84.806622] ================================================================== [ 84.808909] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint Fixes: d64696905554 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts") Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/signal.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index de0920353d30..e1e4d6d07f08 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -426,18 +426,30 @@ __sigqueue_alloc(int sig, struct task_struct *t, gfp_t gfp_flags, rcu_read_lock(); ucounts = task_ucounts(t); sigpending = inc_rlimit_ucounts(ucounts, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, 1); - if (sigpending == 1) - ucounts = get_ucounts(ucounts); + switch (sigpending) { + case 1: + if (likely(get_ucounts(ucounts))) + break; + fallthrough; + case LONG_MAX: + /* + * we need to decrease the ucount in the userns tree on any + * failure to avoid counts leaking. + */ + dec_rlimit_ucounts(ucounts, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, 1); + rcu_read_unlock(); + return NULL; + } rcu_read_unlock(); - if (override_rlimit || (sigpending < LONG_MAX && sigpending <= task_rlimit(t, RLIMIT_SIGPENDING))) { + if (override_rlimit || likely(sigpending <= task_rlimit(t, RLIMIT_SIGPENDING))) { q = kmem_cache_alloc(sigqueue_cachep, gfp_flags); } else { print_dropped_signal(sig); } if (unlikely(q == NULL)) { - if (ucounts && dec_rlimit_ucounts(ucounts, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, 1)) + if (dec_rlimit_ucounts(ucounts, UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, 1)) put_ucounts(ucounts); } else { INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->list); -- 2.29.3