This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smackfs: use netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_del() for deleting cipso_v4_doi to the 4.14-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: smackfs-use-netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_del-for-deleting-cips.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 742f8a535aaad93ca5f13f7c188a68242d1090fc Author: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 19 20:27:26 2021 +0900 smackfs: use netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_del() for deleting cipso_v4_doi [ Upstream commit 0934ad42bb2c5df90a1b9de690f93de735b622fe ] syzbot is reporting UAF at cipso_v4_doi_search() [1], for smk_cipso_doi() is calling kfree() without removing from the cipso_v4_doi_list list after netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_map_add() returned an error. We need to use netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_del() in order to remove from the list and wait for RCU grace period before kfree(). Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=93dba5b91f0fed312cbd [1] Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+93dba5b91f0fed312cbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 6c2e8ac0953fccdd ("netlabel: Update kernel configuration API") Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c index 9fdf404a318f9..a9c516362170a 100644 --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ static void smk_cipso_doi(void) if (rc != 0) { printk(KERN_WARNING "%s:%d map add rc = %d\n", __func__, __LINE__, rc); - kfree(doip); + netlbl_cfg_cipsov4_del(doip->doi, &nai); return; } }