From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
To: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>,
Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, co+c85e76ce40a43b9b@bugs.sh
Subject: [PATCH] apparmor: safely acquire the cached label in aa_file_perm()
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 02:25:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107102534.816756-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)
aa_file_perm() passes an unreferenced RCU snapshot of fctx->label to
aa_get_newest_label(). Its non-stale branch uses a plain kref_get(). Policy
replacement can drop the proxy reference after the stale test while
update_file_ctx() drops the cached reference, so pread64() can increment
the label's refcount from zero.
Acquire the RCU-published label with kref_get_unless_zero before testing it
for staleness, keeping the label alive while resolving its replacement.
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: lib/refcount.c:25 at refcount_warn_saturate+0x111/0x130, CPU#1: AAVICTIM/5091
RIP: refcount_warn_saturate (lib/refcount.c:25)
Call Trace:
aa_file_perm (security/apparmor/file.c:657)
common_file_perm (security/apparmor/lsm.c:529)
security_file_permission (security/security.c:2392)
rw_verify_area (fs/read_write.c:476)
vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:566)
__x64_sys_pread64 (fs/read_write.c:770)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
Fixes: bce4e7e9c45e ("apparmor: reduce rcu_read_lock scope for aa_file_perm mediation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: <co+c85e76ce40a43b9b@bugs.sh>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
security/apparmor/file.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/file.c b/security/apparmor/file.c
index 694e157149e85e..59c27b9c5a8d15 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/file.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/file.c
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ int aa_file_perm(const char *op, const struct cred *subj_cred,
u32 request, bool in_atomic)
{
struct aa_file_ctx *fctx;
- struct aa_label *flabel;
+ struct aa_label *flabel, *tmp;
u32 denied;
int error = 0;
@@ -654,7 +654,12 @@ int aa_file_perm(const char *op, const struct cred *subj_cred,
}
/* slow path - revalidate access */
- flabel = aa_get_newest_label(flabel);
+ flabel = aa_get_label_rcu(&fctx->label);
+ if (label_is_stale(flabel)) {
+ tmp = flabel;
+ flabel = aa_get_newest_label(tmp);
+ aa_put_label(tmp);
+ }
rcu_read_unlock();
if (path_mediated_fs(file->f_path.dentry))
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-07 10:25 UTC|newest]
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