Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in inode_permission()

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 06:27:56PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 18:25:23 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:41:03 +0800
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > I think the sane short term fix is to make the kfree() of the i_security
> > > member be a rcu free, and not clear the member.
> > 
> > You mean my first patch?
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/9/349
> > 
> 
> Oh wait, you said not to clear the member. Thus, the patch would look
> like this:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Index: linux-trace.git/security/selinux/hooks.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-trace.git.orig/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ linux-trace.git/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -234,6 +234,14 @@ static int inode_alloc_security(struct i
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
> +static void inode_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
> +{
> +	struct inode_security_struct *isec;
> +
> +	isec = container_of(head, struct inode_security_struct, rcu);
> +	kmem_cache_free(sel_inode_cache, isec);
> +}
> +
>  static void inode_free_security(struct inode *inode)
>  {
>  	struct inode_security_struct *isec = inode->i_security;
> @@ -244,8 +252,7 @@ static void inode_free_security(struct i
>  		list_del_init(&isec->list);
>  	spin_unlock(&sbsec->isec_lock);
> 
> -	inode->i_security = NULL;
> -	kmem_cache_free(sel_inode_cache, isec);
> +	call_rcu(&isec->rcu, inode_free_rcu);

Does not clearing ->i_security mean that RCU readers can traverse
this pointer after the invocation of call_rcu()?  If so, this is
problematic.  (If something else already prevents readers from getting
here, no problem.)

							Thanx, Paul

>  }
> 
>  static int file_alloc_security(struct file *file)
> Index: linux-trace.git/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-trace.git.orig/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> +++ linux-trace.git/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> @@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ struct task_security_struct {
> 
>  struct inode_security_struct {
>  	struct inode *inode;	/* back pointer to inode object */
> -	struct list_head list;	/* list of inode_security_struct */
> +	union {
> +		struct list_head list;	/* list of inode_security_struct */
> +		struct rcu_head rcu;	/* for freeing the inode_security_struct */
> +	};
>  	u32 task_sid;		/* SID of creating task */
>  	u32 sid;		/* SID of this object */
>  	u16 sclass;		/* security class of this object */
> 

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