On 01/20/2015 01:49 PM, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/20/2015 03:10 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote: >> On 01/20/2015 04:18 AM, Ethan Zhao wrote: >>> A NULL pointer dereference was observed as following panic: >>> >>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) >>> IP: [<ffffffff812735eb>] ipc_has_perm+0x4b/0x60 >>> ... >>> Process opcmon (pid: 30712, threadinfo ffff880237f2a000, >>> task ffff88022ac70e40) >>> Stack: >>> ffff880237f2bc04 ffffffff01020953 ffff880237f2bce8 >>> ffffffff8125818e >>> 0000000000000001 0000000037f78004 ffff880237f2bcd8 >>> ffffffff81273619 >>> ffff880237f2bce8 ffffffff8126e3e6 ffff880237f2bf68 >>> ffffffff8125c206 >>> Call Trace: >>> [<ffffffff8125818e>] ? ipcperms+0xae/0x110 >>> [<ffffffff81273619>] selinux_sem_semop+0x19/0x20 >>> [<ffffffff8126e3e6>] security_sem_semop+0x16/0x20 >>> [<ffffffff8125c206>] sys_semtimedop+0x346/0x750 >>> [<ffffffff81188c0c>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x1dc/0x200 >>> [<ffffffff8161d830>] ? __do_page_fault+0x280/0x500 >>> [<ffffffff810d97d0>] ? __lock_release+0x90/0x1b0 >>> [<ffffffff8161d830>] ? __do_page_fault+0x280/0x500 >>> [<ffffffff8109a763>] ? up_read+0x23/0x40 >>> [<ffffffff8161d830>] ? __do_page_fault+0x280/0x500 >>> [<ffffffff81182f1c>] ? might_fault+0x5c/0xb0 >>> [<ffffffff81081f96>] ? sys_newuname+0x66/0xf0 >>> [<ffffffff810d97d0>] ? __lock_release+0x90/0x1b0 >>> [<ffffffff81081f96>] ? sys_newuname+0x66/0xf0 >>> [<ffffffff81622f45>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d >>> [<ffffffff8125c620>] sys_semop+0x10/0x20 >>> [<ffffffff81622f19>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b >>> Code: b8 00 00 48 8b 80 48 06 00 00 41 8b 54 24 40 4c 8d >>> 45 d0 89 d9 45 31 c9 48 8b 40 70 8b 78 04 49 8b 44 24 60 c6 45 d0 04 >>> 89 55 d8 >>> <0f> b7 10 8b 70 04 e8 0a dc ff ff 48 83 c4 20 5b 41 5c c9 c3 90 >>> RIP [<ffffffff812735eb>] ipc_has_perm+0x4b/0x60 >>> RSP <ffff880237f2bc98> >>> CR2: 0000000000000000 >>> >>> The root cause is semtimedop() was called after semget() without >>> checking its >>> return value in process opcmon. and semget() failed to check >>> permission in >>> function avc_has_perm() then sem_perm->security was freed shown as >>> following: >>> >>> sys_semget() >>> ->newary() >>> ->security_sem_alloc() >>> ->sem_alloc_security() >>> selinux_sem_alloc_security() >>> ->ipc_alloc_security() { >>> ->rc = avc_has_perm() >>> if (rc) { >>> ipc_free_security(&sma->sem_perm); >>> return rc; >> We free the security structure here to avoid a memory leak on a >> failed/denied semaphore set creation. In this situation, we return an >> error to the caller (ultimately to newary), it does an >> ipc_rcu_putref(sma, ipc_rcu_free), and it returns an error to the >> caller. Thus, it never calls ipc_addid() and the semaphore set is not >> created. So how then can you call semtimedop() on it? > My only idea would be a race of semtimedop() with IPC_RMID: > If a rcu grace period happens between sem_obtain_object_check() and the > ipc_has_perm() call, the the observed NULL pointer assignment would happen. We only free and clear the ipc_perms->security field on a failure during newary() -> security_sem_alloc(), in which case we fail with an error before the ipc_addid() call has occurred, or during sem_rcu_free() -> security_sem_free() just prior to calling ipc_rcu_free(). So I don't see how ipc_perms->security can be NULL in ipc_has_perm(). We could rcu free the ipc_perms->security field but I don't see why that would be correct/necessary. _______________________________________________ Selinux mailing list Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.