On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 08:04:39AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> From: GUO Zihua <guozihua@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A panic happens in ima_match_policy:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
> PGD 42f873067 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 5 PID: 1286325 Comm: kubeletmonit.sh
> Kdump: loaded Tainted: P
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
> RIP: 0010:ima_match_policy+0x84/0x450
> Code: 49 89 fc 41 89 cf 31 ed 89 44 24 14 eb 1c 44 39
> 7b 18 74 26 41 83 ff 05 74 20 48 8b 1b 48 3b 1d
> f2 b9 f4 00 0f 84 9c 01 00 00 <44> 85 73 10 74 ea
> 44 8b 6b 14 41 f6 c5 01 75 d4 41 f6 c5 02 74 0f
> RSP: 0018:ff71570009e07a80 EFLAGS: 00010207
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000200
> RDX: ffffffffad8dc7c0 RSI: 0000000024924925 RDI: ff3e27850dea2000
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffabfce739
> R10: ff3e27810cc42400 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ff3e2781825ef970
> R13: 00000000ff3e2785 R14: 000000000000000c R15: 0000000000000001
> FS: 00007f5195b51740(0000)
> GS:ff3e278b12d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000626d24002 CR4: 0000000000361ee0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Call Trace:
> ima_get_action+0x22/0x30
> process_measurement+0xb0/0x830
> ? page_add_file_rmap+0x15/0x170
> ? alloc_set_pte+0x269/0x4c0
> ? prep_new_page+0x81/0x140
> ? simple_xattr_get+0x75/0xa0
> ? selinux_file_open+0x9d/0xf0
> ima_file_check+0x64/0x90
> path_openat+0x571/0x1720
> do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110
> ? page_counter_try_charge+0x57/0xc0
> ? files_cgroup_alloc_fd+0x38/0x60
> ? __alloc_fd+0xd4/0x250
> ? do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250
> do_sys_open+0x1bd/0x250
> do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x1d0
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
>
> Commit c7423dbdbc9e ("ima: Handle -ESTALE returned by
> ima_filter_rule_match()") introduced call to ima_lsm_copy_rule within a
> RCU read-side critical section which contains kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL.
> This implies a possible sleep and violates limitations of RCU read-side
> critical sections on non-PREEMPT systems.
>
> Sleeping within RCU read-side critical section might cause
> synchronize_rcu() returning early and break RCU protection, allowing a
> UAF to happen.
>
> The root cause of this issue could be described as follows:
> | Thread A | Thread B |
> | |ima_match_policy |
> | | rcu_read_lock |
> |ima_lsm_update_rule | |
> | synchronize_rcu | |
> | | kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)|
> | | sleep |
> ==> synchronize_rcu returns early
> | kfree(entry) | |
> | | entry = entry->next|
> ==> UAF happens and entry now becomes NULL (or could be anything).
> | | entry->action |
> ==> Accessing entry might cause panic.
>
> To fix this issue, we are converting all kmalloc that is called within
> RCU read-side critical section to use GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> Fixes: c7423dbdbc9e ("ima: Handle -ESTALE returned by ima_filter_rule_match()")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: GUO Zihua <guozihua@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [PM: fixed missing comment, long lines, !CONFIG_IMA_LSM_RULES case]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> (cherry picked from commit 9a95c5bfbf02a0a7f5983280fe284a0ff0836c34)
> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Backport notes:
> - Restore default return value parameter to call_int_hook() in
> security_audit_rule_init() in lieu of backporting commit 260017f31a8c
> ("lsm: use default hook return value in call_int_hook()").
> - Applies to linux-6.8.y -> linux-6.4.y
Now applied to 6.6.y, thanks.
greg k-h
