Avoiding taking a lock in an IRQ context is not enough to prevent
deadlocks, as discovered by syzbot:
===
WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
5.5.0-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
-----------------------------------------------------
syz-executor.0/8927 [HC0[0]:SC0[2]:HE1:SE0] is trying to acquire:
ffff888027c94098 (&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline]
ffff888027c94098 (&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: sidtab_sid2str_put.part.0+0x36/0x880 security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c:533
and this task is already holding:
ffffffff898639b0 (&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline]
ffffffff898639b0 (&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.}, at: nf_conntrack_lock+0x17/0x70 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:91
which would create a new lock dependency:
(&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.} -> (&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock){+.+.}
but this new dependency connects a SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock:
(&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.}
[...]
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock);
local_irq_disable();
lock(&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock);
lock(&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock);
<Interrupt>
lock(&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
[...]
===
Fix this by simply locking with irqsave/irqrestore and stop giving up on
!in_task(). It makes the locking a bit slower, but it shouldn't make a
big difference in real workloads. Under the scenario from [1] (only
cache hits) it only increased the runtime overhead from the
security_secid_to_secctx() function from ~2% to ~3% (it was ~5-65%
before introducing the cache).
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733259
Fixes: d97bd23c2d7d ("selinux: cache the SID -> context string translation")
Reported-by: syzbot+61cba5033e2072d61806@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
index a308ce1e6a13..f511ffccb131 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
@@ -518,19 +518,13 @@ void sidtab_sid2str_put(struct sidtab *s, struct sidtab_entry *entry,
const char *str, u32 str_len)
{
struct sidtab_str_cache *cache, *victim = NULL;
+ unsigned long flags;
/* do not cache invalid contexts */
if (entry->context.len)
return;
- /*
- * Skip the put operation when in non-task context to avoid the need
- * to disable interrupts while holding s->cache_lock.
- */
- if (!in_task())
- return;
-
- spin_lock(&s->cache_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&s->cache_lock, flags);
cache = rcu_dereference_protected(entry->cache,
lockdep_is_held(&s->cache_lock));
@@ -561,7 +555,7 @@ void sidtab_sid2str_put(struct sidtab *s, struct sidtab_entry *entry,
rcu_assign_pointer(entry->cache, cache);
out_unlock:
- spin_unlock(&s->cache_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&s->cache_lock, flags);
kfree_rcu(victim, rcu_member);
}
--
2.24.1
