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Jeong" , AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com, "Cen Zhang (Microsoft)" , Bradley Morgan , "Christian Brauner (Amutable)" Subject: [PATCH 6.18 076/193] watch_queue: Fix note pool publication race in watch_queue_set_size() Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:35:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20261023163716.000454660@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.56.0 In-Reply-To: <20261023163714.201276352@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20261023163714.201276352@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) commit 5e531d62f1f8834faf7a4eed0d41105cf6570a8f upstream. There is a race between watch_queue_set_size() and post_one_notification(). watch_queue_set_size() publishes wqueue->notes, notes_bitmap, nr_pages and nr_notes with plain stores, and post_one_notification() reads them with plain loads under a different lock, so nothing orders the four stores against the poster's loads: depending on the build, notes can be stored last (gcc 14 on x86-64 does this). Since keyctl_watch_key() lets a watch attach to a queue before it is sized, post_one_notification() can already be running on another CPU at that moment: it reads nr_notes > 0, passes its bounds check, and then reads notes while it is still NULL, dereferencing notes[0]. An unprivileged user triggers this reliably by watching one of its own keys through a notification pipe and racing ioctl(IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE) on that pipe against keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) on the key from another CPU, triggering: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP: 0010:post_one_notification.isra.0+0xa2/0x1e0 Call Trace: __post_watch_notification+0x148/0x180 keyctl_setperm_key+0x119/0x130 do_syscall_64+0x108/0x4c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Fix this by publishing nr_notes last with smp_store_release(), and by reading it once with smp_load_acquire() in post_one_notification() before the bitmap and the page array are touched. A poster that observes a non-zero nr_notes then also observes the pool behind it; one that observes zero drops the notification as before. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Dae R. Jeong Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZT-S8Q7tyutcvu_q@dragonet/ Reported-by: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com Suggested-by: Dae R. Jeong Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009224715.46121-1-cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan Cc: Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/watch_queue.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/watch_queue.c +++ b/kernel/watch_queue.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static bool post_one_notification(struct struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = wqueue->pipe; struct pipe_buffer *buf; struct page *page; - unsigned int head, tail, note, offset, len; + unsigned int head, tail, note, offset, len, nr_notes; bool done = false; spin_lock_irq(&pipe->rd_wait.lock); @@ -111,8 +111,10 @@ static bool post_one_notification(struct if (pipe_full(head, tail, pipe->ring_size)) goto lost; - note = find_first_bit(wqueue->notes_bitmap, wqueue->nr_notes); - if (note >= wqueue->nr_notes) + /* Pairs with the smp_store_release() in watch_queue_set_size(). */ + nr_notes = smp_load_acquire(&wqueue->nr_notes); + note = find_first_bit(wqueue->notes_bitmap, nr_notes); + if (note >= nr_notes) goto lost; page = wqueue->notes[note / WATCH_QUEUE_NOTES_PER_PAGE]; @@ -297,7 +299,8 @@ long watch_queue_set_size(struct pipe_in wqueue->notes = pages; wqueue->notes_bitmap = bitmap; wqueue->nr_pages = nr_pages; - wqueue->nr_notes = nr_notes; + /* Pairs with the smp_load_acquire() in post_one_notification(). */ + smp_store_release(&wqueue->nr_notes, nr_notes); return 0; error_p: