Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd()

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On 5/20/24 4:38 PM, Baokun Li wrote:
> Hi Jingbo,
> 
> Thanks for your review!
> 
> On 2024/5/20 15:24, Jingbo Xu wrote:
>>
>> On 5/15/24 4:45 PM, libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> We got the following issue in a fuzz test of randomly issuing the
>>> restore
>>> command:
>>>
>>> ==================================================================
>>> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
>>> Write of size 4 at addr ffff888109164a80 by task ondemand-04-dae/4962
>>>
>>> CPU: 11 PID: 4962 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-dirty #542
>>> Call Trace:
>>>   kasan_report+0x94/0xc0
>>>   cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
>>>   vfs_read+0x169/0xb50
>>>   ksys_read+0xf5/0x1e0
>>>
>>> Allocated by task 626:
>>>   __kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0
>>>   cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x24d/0x690
>>>   cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
>>>   cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
>>>   cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
>>>   cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
>>>   fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
>>>   [...]
>>>
>>> Freed by task 626:
>>>   kfree+0xf1/0x2c0
>>>   cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x568/0x690
>>>   cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
>>>   cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
>>>   cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
>>>   cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
>>>   fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
>>>   [...]
>>> ==================================================================
>>>
>>> Following is the process that triggers the issue:
>>>
>>>       mount  |   daemon_thread1    |    daemon_thread2
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>   cachefiles_ondemand_init_object
>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req
>>>     REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len)
>>>     wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done)
>>>
>>>              cachefiles_daemon_read
>>>               cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>                REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>                cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>                copy_to_user(_buffer, msg, n)
>>>              process_open_req(REQ_A)
>>>                                    ------ restore ------
>>>                                    cachefiles_ondemand_restore
>>>                                    xas_for_each(&xas, req, ULONG_MAX)
>>>                                     xas_set_mark(&xas,
>>> CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>
>>>                                    cachefiles_daemon_read
>>>                                     cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>                                      REQ_A =
>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>
>>>               write(devfd, ("copen %u,%llu", msg->msg_id, size));
>>>               cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>                xa_erase(&cache->reqs, id)
>>>                complete(&REQ_A->done)
>>>     kfree(REQ_A)
>>>                                      cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd(REQ_A)
>>>                                       fd = get_unused_fd_flags
>>>                                       file = anon_inode_getfile
>>>                                       fd_install(fd, file)
>>>                                       load = (void *)REQ_A->msg.data;
>>>                                       load->fd = fd;
>>>                                       // load UAF !!!
>>>
>>> This issue is caused by issuing a restore command when the daemon is
>>> still
>>> alive, which results in a request being processed multiple times thus
>>> triggering a UAF. So to avoid this problem, add an additional reference
>>> count to cachefiles_req, which is held while waiting and reading, and
>>> then
>>> released when the waiting and reading is over.
>>>
>>>
>>> Note that since there is only one reference count for waiting, we
>>> need to
>>> avoid the same request being completed multiple times, so we can only
>>> complete the request if it is successfully removed from the xarray.
>> Sorry the above description makes me confused.  As the same request may
>> be got by different daemon threads multiple times, the introduced
>> refcount mechanism can't protect it from being completed multiple times
>> (which is expected).  The refcount only protects it from being freed
>> multiple times.
> The idea here is that because the wait only holds one reference count,
> complete(&req->done) can only be called when the req has been
> successfully removed from the xarry, otherwise the following UAF may
> occur:


"complete(&req->done) can only be called when the req has been
successfully removed from the xarry ..."

How this is done? since the following xarray_erase() following the first
xarray_erase() will fail as the xarray slot referred by the same id has
already been erased?


>>> @@ -455,7 +459,7 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct
>>> cachefiles_object *object,
>>>       wake_up_all(&cache->daemon_pollwq);
>>>       wait_for_completion(&req->done);
>>>       ret = req->error;
>>> -    kfree(req);
>>> +    cachefiles_req_put(req);
>>>       return ret;
>>>   out:
>>>       /* Reset the object to close state in error handling path.
>>
>> Don't we need to also convert "kfree(req)" to cachefiles_req_put(req)
>> for the error path of cachefiles_ondemand_send_req()?
>>
>> ```
>> out:
>>     /* Reset the object to close state in error handling path.
>>      * If error occurs after creating the anonymous fd,
>>      * cachefiles_ondemand_fd_release() will set object to close.
>>      */
>>     if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_OPEN)
>>         cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_close(object);
>>     kfree(req);
>>     return ret;
>> ```
> When "goto out;" is called in cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(),
> it means that the req is unallocated/failed to be allocated/failed to
> be inserted into the xarry, and therefore the req can only be accessed
> by the current function, so there is no need to consider concurrency
> and reference counting.

Okay I understand. But this is indeed quite confusing. I see no cost of
also converting to cachefiles_req_put(req).


-- 
Thanks,
Jingbo




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