Re: [PATCH for-rc 4/4] IB/hfi1: Fix regressions in security fix

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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:48:20AM -0400, dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The security code guards for non-current mm in all cases for
> updating the rb tree.
> 
> That is ok for insert, but NOT ok for remove, since the insert
> has already guarded the node from being inserted and the remove
> can be called with a different mm because of a segfault other similar
> "close" issues where current-mm is NULL.
> 
> Best case, is we leak pages. worst case we delete items for an lru_list
> more than once:
> [20945.911107] list_del corruption, ffffa0cd536bcac8->next is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100)
> 
> Fix by removing the guard from any functions that remove nodes
> from the tree assuming the node was entered into the tree as valid since
> the insert is guarded.

Does this open up a child process being able to remove nodes which the parent
added?

Ira

> 
> Fixes: 3d2a9d642512 ("IB/hfi1: Ensure correct mm is used at all times")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mmu_rb.c | 9 ---------
>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mmu_rb.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mmu_rb.c
> index f3fb28e..375a881 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mmu_rb.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mmu_rb.c
> @@ -210,9 +210,6 @@ bool hfi1_mmu_rb_remove_unless_exact(struct mmu_rb_handler *handler,
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	bool ret = false;
>  
> -	if (current->mm != handler->mn.mm)
> -		return ret;
> -
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&handler->lock, flags);
>  	node = __mmu_rb_search(handler, addr, len);
>  	if (node) {
> @@ -235,9 +232,6 @@ void hfi1_mmu_rb_evict(struct mmu_rb_handler *handler, void *evict_arg)
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	bool stop = false;
>  
> -	if (current->mm != handler->mn.mm)
> -		return;
> -
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&del_list);
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&handler->lock, flags);
> @@ -271,9 +265,6 @@ void hfi1_mmu_rb_remove(struct mmu_rb_handler *handler,
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> -	if (current->mm != handler->mn.mm)
> -		return;
> -
>  	/* Validity of handler and node pointers has been checked by caller. */
>  	trace_hfi1_mmu_rb_remove(node->addr, node->len);
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&handler->lock, flags);
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 



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