The patch titled Subject: userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork use after free has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-use-after-free.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork use after free When reading the event from the uffd, we put it on a temporary fork_event list to detect if we can still access it after releasing and retaking the event_wqh.lock. If fork aborts and removes the event from the fork_event all is fine as long as we're still in the userfault read context and fork_event head is still alive. We've to put the event allocated in the fork kernel stack, back from fork_event list-head to the event_wqh head, before returning from userfaultfd_ctx_read, because the fork_event head lifetime is limited to the userfaultfd_ctx_read stack lifetime. Forgetting to move the event back to its event_wqh place then results in __remove_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &ewq->wq); in userfaultfd_event_wait_completion to remove it from a head that has been already freed from the reader stack. This could only happen if resolve_userfault_fork failed (for example if there are no file descriptors available to allocate the fork uffd). If it succeeded it was put back correctly. Furthermore, after find_userfault_evt receives a fork event, the forked userfault context in fork_nctx and uwq->msg.arg.reserved.reserved1 can be released by the fork thread as soon as the event_wqh.lock is released. Taking a reference on the fork_nctx before dropping the lock prevents an use after free in resolve_userfault_fork(). If the fork side aborted and it already released everything, we still try to succeed resolve_userfault_fork(), if possible. Fixes: 893e26e61d04eac9 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: Add fork() event") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170920180413.26713-1-aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/userfaultfd.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-use-after-free fs/userfaultfd.c --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-non-cooperative-fix-fork-use-after-free +++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -588,6 +588,12 @@ static void userfaultfd_event_wait_compl break; if (ACCESS_ONCE(ctx->released) || fatal_signal_pending(current)) { + /* + * &ewq->wq may be queued in fork_event, but + * __remove_wait_queue ignores the head + * parameter. It would be a problem if it + * didn't. + */ __remove_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &ewq->wq); if (ewq->msg.event == UFFD_EVENT_FORK) { struct userfaultfd_ctx *new; @@ -1061,6 +1067,12 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(stru (unsigned long) uwq->msg.arg.reserved.reserved1; list_move(&uwq->wq.entry, &fork_event); + /* + * fork_nctx can be freed as soon as + * we drop the lock, unless we take a + * reference on it. + */ + userfaultfd_ctx_get(fork_nctx); spin_unlock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock); ret = 0; break; @@ -1091,19 +1103,53 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(stru if (!ret && msg->event == UFFD_EVENT_FORK) { ret = resolve_userfault_fork(ctx, fork_nctx, msg); + spin_lock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock); + if (!list_empty(&fork_event)) { + /* + * The fork thread didn't abort, so we can + * drop the temporary refcount. + */ + userfaultfd_ctx_put(fork_nctx); + + uwq = list_first_entry(&fork_event, + typeof(*uwq), + wq.entry); + /* + * If fork_event list wasn't empty and in turn + * the event wasn't already released by fork + * (the event is allocated on fork kernel + * stack), put the event back to its place in + * the event_wq. fork_event head will be freed + * as soon as we return so the event cannot + * stay queued there no matter the current + * "ret" value. + */ + list_del(&uwq->wq.entry); + __add_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &uwq->wq); - if (!ret) { - spin_lock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock); - if (!list_empty(&fork_event)) { - uwq = list_first_entry(&fork_event, - typeof(*uwq), - wq.entry); - list_del(&uwq->wq.entry); - __add_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &uwq->wq); + /* + * Leave the event in the waitqueue and report + * error to userland if we failed to resolve + * the userfault fork. + */ + if (likely(!ret)) userfaultfd_event_complete(ctx, uwq); - } - spin_unlock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock); + } else { + /* + * Here the fork thread aborted and the + * refcount from the fork thread on fork_nctx + * has already been released. We still hold + * the reference we took before releasing the + * lock above. If resolve_userfault_fork + * failed we've to drop it because the + * fork_nctx has to be freed in such case. If + * it succeeded we'll hold it because the new + * uffd references it. + */ + if (ret) + userfaultfd_ctx_put(fork_nctx); } + spin_unlock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock); } return ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html