Re: [PATCH RESEND] KVM: x86/mmu: fix UAF in paging_update_accessed_dirty_bits

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > On 1/24/22 10:29, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > > On 1/24/22 18:26, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> > > > > Syzbot reported an use-after-free bug in update_accessed_dirty_bits().
> > > > > Fix this by checking if the memremap'ed pointer is still valid.
> > > > access_ok only checks that the pointer is in the userspace range.  Is this
> > > > correct?  And if so, what are the exact circumstances in which access_ok
> > > > returns a non-NULL but also non-userspace address?
> > > I "objected" to this patch in its initial posting[*].  AFAICT adding access_ok()
> > > is just masking a more egregious bug where interpretation of vm_pgoff as a PFN
> > > base is flat out wrong except for select backing stores that use VM_PFNMAP.  In
> > > other words, the vm_pgoff hack works for the /dev/mem use case, but it is wrong
> > > in general.
> > > 
> > 
> > The issue here is not related to /dev/mem, but binder allocated memory, which is
> > yet another special mapping use case. In this case the condition
> > 
> > if (!vma || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP))
> > 
> > doesn't cover this special mappings. Adding the access_ok() was my something
> > that fixed the use-after-free issue for me, and since I didn't have anything
> > better I thought I will send an RFC to start some discussion.
> > After some more debugging I came up with the bellow.
> > Will that be more acceptable?
> 
> I'm pretty sure anything that keeps the vm_pgoff "logic" is a band-aid.  But I'm 99%
> sure we can simply do cmpxchg directly on the user address, we just need to get
> support for that, which has happily been posted[*].  I'll give that a shot tomorrow,
> I want to convert similar code in the emulator, it'd be very nice to purge all of
> this crud.
> 
> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220120160822.852009966@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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