This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
configfs: fix a use-after-free in __configfs_open_file
to the 5.11-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:
configfs-fix-a-use-after-free-in-__configfs_open_fil.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit cfd71154d4b89c55fcc0ff4e9f4102448a2fff54
Author: Daiyue Zhang <zhangdaiyue1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 1 14:10:53 2021 +0800
configfs: fix a use-after-free in __configfs_open_file
[ Upstream commit 14fbbc8297728e880070f7b077b3301a8c698ef9 ]
Commit b0841eefd969 ("configfs: provide exclusion between IO and removals")
uses ->frag_dead to mark the fragment state, thus no bothering with extra
refcount on config_item when opening a file. The configfs_get_config_item
was removed in __configfs_open_file, but not with config_item_put. So the
refcount on config_item will lost its balance, causing use-after-free
issues in some occasions like this:
Test:
1. Mount configfs on /config with read-only items:
drwxrwx--- 289 root root 0 2021-04-01 11:55 /config
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2021-04-01 11:54 /config/a
--w--w--w- 1 root root 4096 2021-04-01 11:53 /config/a/1.txt
......
2. Then run:
for file in /config
do
echo $file
grep -R 'key' $file
done
3. __configfs_open_file will be called in parallel, the first one
got called will do:
if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) {
if (!(inode->i_mode & S_IRUGO))
goto out_put_module;
config_item_put(buffer->item);
kref_put()
package_details_release()
kfree()
the other one will run into use-after-free issues like this:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __configfs_open_file+0x1bc/0x3b0
Read of size 8 at addr fffffff155f02480 by task grep/13096
CPU: 0 PID: 13096 Comm: grep VIP: 00 Tainted: G W 4.14.116-kasan #1
TGID: 13096 Comm: grep
Call trace:
dump_stack+0x118/0x160
kasan_report+0x22c/0x294
__asan_load8+0x80/0x88
__configfs_open_file+0x1bc/0x3b0
configfs_open_file+0x28/0x34
do_dentry_open+0x2cc/0x5c0
vfs_open+0x80/0xe0
path_openat+0xd8c/0x2988
do_filp_open+0x1c4/0x2fc
do_sys_open+0x23c/0x404
SyS_openat+0x38/0x48
Allocated by task 2138:
kasan_kmalloc+0xe0/0x1ac
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x334/0x394
packages_make_item+0x4c/0x180
configfs_mkdir+0x358/0x740
vfs_mkdir2+0x1bc/0x2e8
SyS_mkdirat+0x154/0x23c
el0_svc_naked+0x34/0x38
Freed by task 13096:
kasan_slab_free+0xb8/0x194
kfree+0x13c/0x910
package_details_release+0x524/0x56c
kref_put+0xc4/0x104
config_item_put+0x24/0x34
__configfs_open_file+0x35c/0x3b0
configfs_open_file+0x28/0x34
do_dentry_open+0x2cc/0x5c0
vfs_open+0x80/0xe0
path_openat+0xd8c/0x2988
do_filp_open+0x1c4/0x2fc
do_sys_open+0x23c/0x404
SyS_openat+0x38/0x48
el0_svc_naked+0x34/0x38
To fix this issue, remove the config_item_put in
__configfs_open_file to balance the refcount of config_item.
Fixes: b0841eefd969 ("configfs: provide exclusion between IO and removals")
Signed-off-by: Daiyue Zhang <zhangdaiyue1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yi Chen <chenyi77@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ge Qiu <qiuge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/configfs/file.c b/fs/configfs/file.c
index 1f0270229d7b..da8351d1e455 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/file.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int __configfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, int type
attr = to_attr(dentry);
if (!attr)
- goto out_put_item;
+ goto out_free_buffer;
if (type & CONFIGFS_ITEM_BIN_ATTR) {
buffer->bin_attr = to_bin_attr(dentry);
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static int __configfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, int type
/* Grab the module reference for this attribute if we have one */
error = -ENODEV;
if (!try_module_get(buffer->owner))
- goto out_put_item;
+ goto out_free_buffer;
error = -EACCES;
if (!buffer->item->ci_type)
@@ -435,8 +435,6 @@ static int __configfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, int type
out_put_module:
module_put(buffer->owner);
-out_put_item:
- config_item_put(buffer->item);
out_free_buffer:
up_read(&frag->frag_sem);
kfree(buffer);
