This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ubifs: authentication: Fix use-after-free in ubifs_tnc_end_commit
to the 6.1-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:
ubifs-authentication-fix-use-after-free-in-ubifs_tnc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 135cba4d15e2ba3d01c8aa5f3612f7e9a58d4380
Author: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 9 16:46:59 2024 +0200
ubifs: authentication: Fix use-after-free in ubifs_tnc_end_commit
[ Upstream commit 4617fb8fc15effe8eda4dd898d4e33eb537a7140 ]
After an insertion in TNC, the tree might split and cause a node to
change its `znode->parent`. A further deletion of other nodes in the
tree (which also could free the nodes), the aforementioned node's
`znode->cparent` could still point to a freed node. This
`znode->cparent` may not be updated when getting nodes to commit in
`ubifs_tnc_start_commit()`. This could then trigger a use-after-free
when accessing the `znode->cparent` in `write_index()` in
`ubifs_tnc_end_commit()`.
This can be triggered by running
rm -f /etc/test-file.bin
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/etc/test-file.bin bs=1M count=60 conv=fsync
in a loop, and with `CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_AUTHENTICATION`. KASAN then
reports:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ubifs_tnc_end_commit+0xa5c/0x1950
Write of size 32 at addr ffffff800a3af86c by task ubifs_bgt0_20/153
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x340
show_stack+0x18/0x24
dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xbc
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x74/0x2b0
kasan_report+0x1d8/0x1f0
kasan_check_range+0xf8/0x1a0
memcpy+0x84/0xf4
ubifs_tnc_end_commit+0xa5c/0x1950
do_commit+0x4e0/0x1340
ubifs_bg_thread+0x234/0x2e0
kthread+0x36c/0x410
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Allocated by task 401:
kasan_save_stack+0x38/0x70
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8c/0xd0
__kmalloc+0x34c/0x5bc
tnc_insert+0x140/0x16a4
ubifs_tnc_add+0x370/0x52c
ubifs_jnl_write_data+0x5d8/0x870
do_writepage+0x36c/0x510
ubifs_writepage+0x190/0x4dc
__writepage+0x58/0x154
write_cache_pages+0x394/0x830
do_writepages+0x1f0/0x5b0
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x170/0x25c
file_write_and_wait_range+0x140/0x190
ubifs_fsync+0xe8/0x290
vfs_fsync_range+0xc0/0x1e4
do_fsync+0x40/0x90
__arm64_sys_fsync+0x34/0x50
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xa8/0x260
do_el0_svc+0xc8/0x1f0
el0_svc+0x34/0x70
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x108/0x114
el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
Freed by task 403:
kasan_save_stack+0x38/0x70
kasan_set_track+0x28/0x40
kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x4c
__kasan_slab_free+0xd4/0x13c
kfree+0xc4/0x3a0
tnc_delete+0x3f4/0xe40
ubifs_tnc_remove_range+0x368/0x73c
ubifs_tnc_remove_ino+0x29c/0x2e0
ubifs_jnl_delete_inode+0x150/0x260
ubifs_evict_inode+0x1d4/0x2e4
evict+0x1c8/0x450
iput+0x2a0/0x3c4
do_unlinkat+0x2cc/0x490
__arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x90/0x100
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xa8/0x260
do_el0_svc+0xc8/0x1f0
el0_svc+0x34/0x70
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x108/0x114
el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
The offending `memcpy()` in `ubifs_copy_hash()` has a use-after-free
when a node becomes root in TNC but still has a `cparent` to an already
freed node. More specifically, consider the following TNC:
zroot
/
/
zp1
/
/
zn
Inserting a new node `zn_new` with a key smaller then `zn` will trigger
a split in `tnc_insert()` if `zp1` is full:
zroot
/ \
/ \
zp1 zp2
/ \
/ \
zn_new zn
`zn->parent` has now been moved to `zp2`, *but* `zn->cparent` still
points to `zp1`.
Now, consider a removal of all the nodes _except_ `zn`. Just when
`tnc_delete()` is about to delete `zroot` and `zp2`:
zroot
\
\
zp2
\
\
zn
`zroot` and `zp2` get freed and the tree collapses:
zn
`zn` now becomes the new `zroot`.
`get_znodes_to_commit()` will now only find `zn`, the new `zroot`, and
`write_index()` will check its `znode->cparent` that wrongly points to
the already freed `zp1`. `ubifs_copy_hash()` thus gets wrongly called
with `znode->cparent->zbranch[znode->iip].hash` that triggers the
use-after-free!
Fix this by explicitly setting `znode->cparent` to `NULL` in
`get_znodes_to_commit()` for the root node. The search for the dirty
nodes is bottom-up in the tree. Thus, when `find_next_dirty(znode)`
returns NULL, the current `znode` _is_ the root node. Add an assert for
this.
Fixes: 16a26b20d2af ("ubifs: authentication: Add hashes to index nodes")
Tested-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@xxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c b/fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c
index 01362ad5f804a..efd52cc534364 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c
@@ -657,6 +657,8 @@ static int get_znodes_to_commit(struct ubifs_info *c)
znode->alt = 0;
cnext = find_next_dirty(znode);
if (!cnext) {
+ ubifs_assert(c, !znode->parent);
+ znode->cparent = NULL;
znode->cnext = c->cnext;
break;
}
