[PATCH 4.4 41/45] SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages.

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-04-19T15:02:41Z

From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

commit 1cded9d2974fe4fe339fc0ccd6638b80d465ab2c upstream.

There are two problems with refcounting of auth_gss messages.

First, the reference on the pipe->pipe list (taken by a call
to rpc_queue_upcall()) is not counted. It seems to be
assumed that a message in pipe->pipe will always also be in
pipe->in_downcall, where it is correctly reference counted.

However there is no guaranty of this. I have a report of a
NULL dereferences in rpc_pipe_read() which suggests a msg
that has been freed is still on the pipe->pipe list.

One way I imagine this might happen is:
- message is queued for uid=U and auth->service=S1
- rpc.gssd reads this message and starts processing.
This removes the message from pipe->pipe
- message is queued for uid=U and auth->service=S2
- rpc.gssd replies to the first message. gss_pipe_downcall()
calls __gss_find_upcall(pipe, U, NULL) and it finds the
*second* message, as new messages are placed at the head
of ->in_downcall, and the service type is not checked.
- This second message is removed from ->in_downcall and freed
by gss_release_msg() (even though it is still on pipe->pipe)
- rpc.gssd tries to read another message, and dereferences a pointer
to this message that has just been freed.

I fix this by incrementing the reference count before calling
rpc_queue_upcall(), and decrementing it if that fails, or normally in
gss_pipe_destroy_msg().

It seems strange that the reply doesn't target the message more
precisely, but I don't know all the details. In any case, I think the
reference counting irregularity became a measureable bug when the
extra arg was added to __gss_find_upcall(), hence the Fixes: line
below.

The second problem is that if rpc_queue_upcall() fails, the new
message is not freed. gss_alloc_msg() set the ->count to 1,
gss_add_msg() increments this to 2, gss_unhash_msg() decrements to 1,
then the pointer is discarded so the memory never gets freed.

Fixes: 9130b8dbc6ac ("SUNRPC: allow for upcalls for same uid but different gss service")
Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1011250
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -541,9 +541,13 @@ gss_setup_upcall(struct gss_auth *gss_au
return gss_new;
gss_msg = gss_add_msg(gss_new);
if (gss_msg == gss_new) {
- int res = rpc_queue_upcall(gss_new->pipe, &gss_new->msg);
+ int res;
+ atomic_inc(&gss_msg->count);
+ res = rpc_queue_upcall(gss_new->pipe, &gss_new->msg);
if (res) {
gss_unhash_msg(gss_new);
+ atomic_dec(&gss_msg->count);
+ gss_release_msg(gss_new);
gss_msg = ERR_PTR(res);
}
} else
@@ -836,6 +840,7 @@ gss_pipe_destroy_msg(struct rpc_pipe_msg
warn_gssd();
gss_release_msg(gss_msg);
}
+ gss_release_msg(gss_msg);
}

static void gss_pipe_dentry_destroy(struct dentry *dir,