Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: fix UAF in hugetlb_handle_userfault

[Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>]

On 2022/9/22 3:07, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:34:40 +0800 Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com> wrote:
>
>> The vma_lock and hugetlb_fault_mutex are dropped before handling
>> userfault and reacquire them again after handle_userfault(), but
>> reacquire the vma_lock could lead to UAF[1] due to the following
>> race,
>>
>> hugetlb_fault
>>   hugetlb_no_page
>>     /*unlock vma_lock */
>>     hugetlb_handle_userfault
>>       handle_userfault
>>         /* unlock mm->mmap_lock*/
>>                                            vm_mmap_pgoff
>>                                              do_mmap
>>                                                mmap_region
>>                                                  munmap_vma_range
>>                                                    /* clean old vma */
>>         /* lock vma_lock again  <--- UAF */
>>     /* unlock vma_lock */
>>
>> Since the vma_lock will unlock immediately after hugetlb_handle_userfault(),
>> let's drop the unneeded lock and unlock in hugetlb_handle_userfault() to fix
>> the issue.
>>
>> @@ -5508,17 +5507,12 @@ static inline vm_fault_t hugetlb_handle_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>  
>>  	/*
>>  	 * vma_lock and hugetlb_fault_mutex must be
>> -	 * dropped before handling userfault.  Reacquire
>> -	 * after handling fault to make calling code simpler.
>> +	 * dropped before handling userfault.
>>  	 */
>>  	hugetlb_vma_unlock_read(vma);
>>  	hash = hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(mapping, idx);
>>  	mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
>> -	ret = handle_userfault(&vmf, reason);
>> -	mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
>> -	hugetlb_vma_lock_read(vma);
>> -
>> -	return ret;
>> +	return handle_userfault(&vmf, reason);
>>  }
> Current code is rather different from this.  So if the bug still exists
> in current code, please verify this and redo the patch appropriately?
>
> And hang on to this version to help with the -stable backporting.
>
> Thanks.
> .
This patch conflicts with patch series "hugetlb: Use new vma lock for huge pmd sharing synchronization".
So I reproduce the problem on next-20220920 and this patch is based on next-20220920 instead of mainline.
This problem is existed since v4.11. I will send the stable version later.