audit_remove_watch_rule() drops watch's reference to parent but then
continues to work with it. That is not safe as parent can get freed once
we drop our reference. The following is a trivial reproducer:
mount -o loop image /mnt
touch /mnt/file
auditctl -w /mnt/file -p wax
umount /mnt
auditctl -D
<crash in fsnotify_destroy_mark()>
Grab our own reference in audit_remove_watch_rule() earlier to make sure
mark does not get freed under us.
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/audit_watch.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index 62d686d96581..ed748ee40029 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -457,13 +457,15 @@ void audit_remove_watch_rule(struct audit_krule *krule)
list_del(&krule->rlist);
if (list_empty(&watch->rules)) {
+ /*
+ * audit_remove_watch() drops our reference to 'parent' which
+ * can get freed. Grab our own reference to be safe.
+ */
+ audit_get_parent(parent);
audit_remove_watch(watch);
-
- if (list_empty(&parent->watches)) {
- audit_get_parent(parent);
+ if (list_empty(&parent->watches))
fsnotify_destroy_mark(&parent->mark, audit_watch_group);
- audit_put_parent(parent);
- }
+ audit_put_parent(parent);
}
}
--
2.12.3