Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> We need to increment the ucounts reference counter befor security_prepare_creds()
> because this function may fail and abort_creds() will try to decrement
> this reference.
>
> [ 96.465056][ T8641] FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
> [ 96.465056][ T8641] name fail_page_alloc, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 0
> [ 96.478453][ T8641] CPU: 1 PID: 8641 Comm: syz-executor668 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
> [ 96.487215][ T8641] Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> [ 96.497254][ T8641] Call Trace:
> [ 96.500517][ T8641] dump_stack_lvl+0x1d3/0x29f
> [ 96.505758][ T8641] ? show_regs_print_info+0x12/0x12
> [ 96.510944][ T8641] ? log_buf_vmcoreinfo_setup+0x498/0x498
> [ 96.516652][ T8641] should_fail+0x384/0x4b0
> [ 96.521141][ T8641] prepare_alloc_pages+0x1d1/0x5a0
> [ 96.526236][ T8641] __alloc_pages+0x14d/0x5f0
> [ 96.530808][ T8641] ? __rmqueue_pcplist+0x2030/0x2030
> [ 96.536073][ T8641] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x3e2/0x750
> [ 96.542056][ T8641] ? alloc_pages+0x3f3/0x500
> [ 96.546635][ T8641] allocate_slab+0xf1/0x540
> [ 96.551120][ T8641] ___slab_alloc+0x1cf/0x350
> [ 96.555689][ T8641] ? kzalloc+0x1d/0x30
> [ 96.559740][ T8641] __kmalloc+0x2e7/0x390
> [ 96.563980][ T8641] ? kzalloc+0x1d/0x30
> [ 96.568029][ T8641] kzalloc+0x1d/0x30
> [ 96.571903][ T8641] security_prepare_creds+0x46/0x220
> [ 96.577174][ T8641] prepare_creds+0x411/0x640
> [ 96.581747][ T8641] __sys_setfsuid+0xe2/0x3a0
> [ 96.586333][ T8641] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0
> [ 96.590739][ T8641] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [ 96.596611][ T8641] RIP: 0033:0x445a69
> [ 96.600483][ T8641] Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 11 15 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
> [ 96.620152][ T8641] RSP: 002b:00007f1054173318 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000007a
> [ 96.628543][ T8641] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004ca4c8 RCX: 0000000000445a69
> [ 96.636600][ T8641] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00007f10541732f0 RDI: 0000000000000000
> [ 96.644550][ T8641] RBP: 00000000004ca4c0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 96.652500][ T8641] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004ca4cc
> [ 96.660631][ T8641] R13: 00007fffffe0b62f R14: 00007f1054173400 R15: 0000000000022000
>
> Fixes: 905ae01c4ae2 ("Add a reference to ucounts for each cred")
> Reported-by: syzbot+01985d7909f9468f013c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied.
It is obvious how a failure of security_prepare_creds calling
abort_creds could result a decrement without an increment.
So it looks like the fault injection did it's job.
Eric
> ---
> kernel/cred.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
> index e6fd2b3fc31f..f784e08c2fbd 100644
> --- a/kernel/cred.c
> +++ b/kernel/cred.c
> @@ -286,13 +286,13 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void)
> new->security = NULL;
> #endif
>
> - if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
> - goto error;
> -
> new->ucounts = get_ucounts(new->ucounts);
> if (!new->ucounts)
> goto error;
>
> + if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
> + goto error;
> +
> validate_creds(new);
> return new;
>
> @@ -753,13 +753,13 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
> new->security = NULL;
> #endif
> - if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
> - goto error;
> -
> new->ucounts = get_ucounts(new->ucounts);
> if (!new->ucounts)
> goto error;
>
> + if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) < 0)
> + goto error;
> +
> put_cred(old);
> validate_creds(new);
> return new;
