This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ima: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ima_file_hash to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ima-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ima_file_hash.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1067001512a576a10f14ba5ff9e8ac1cff1a8705 Author: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 16 18:02:42 2020 +0000 ima: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ima_file_hash [ Upstream commit aa662fc04f5b290b3979332588bf8d812b189962 ] ima_file_hash can be called when there is no iint->ima_hash available even though the inode exists in the integrity cache. It is fairly common for a file to not have a hash. (e.g. an mknodat, prior to the file being closed). Another example where this can happen (suggested by Jann Horn): Process A does: while(1) { unlink("/tmp/imafoo"); fd = open("/tmp/imafoo", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0700); if (fd == -1) { perror("open"); continue; } write(fd, "A", 1); close(fd); } and Process B does: while (1) { int fd = open("/tmp/imafoo", O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) continue; char *mapping = mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); if (mapping != MAP_FAILED) munmap(mapping, 0x1000); close(fd); } Due to the race to get the iint->mutex between ima_file_hash and process_measurement iint->ima_hash could still be NULL. Fixes: 6beea7afcc72 ("ima: add the ability to query the cached hash of a given file") Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florent Revest <revest@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c index c1583d98c5e50..0b8f17570f210 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c @@ -531,6 +531,16 @@ int ima_file_hash(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t buf_size) return -EOPNOTSUPP; mutex_lock(&iint->mutex); + + /* + * ima_file_hash can be called when ima_collect_measurement has still + * not been called, we might not always have a hash. + */ + if (!iint->ima_hash) { + mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex); + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + } + if (buf) { size_t copied_size;