Re: [PATCH 1/1] userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork use after free

Greg KH
2017-09-20T18:30:35Z

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> When reading the event from the uffd, we put it on a temporary
> fork_event list to detect if we can still access it after releasing
> and retaking the event_wqh.lock.
>
> If fork aborts and removes the event from the fork_event all is fine
> as long as we're still in the userfault read context and fork_event
> head is still alive.
>
> We've to put the event allocated in the fork kernel stack, back from
> fork_event list-head to the event_wqh head, before returning from
> userfaultfd_ctx_read, because the fork_event head lifetime is limited
> to the userfaultfd_ctx_read stack lifetime.
>
> Forgetting to move the event back to its event_wqh place then results
> in __remove_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &ewq->wq); in
> userfaultfd_event_wait_completion to remove it from a head that has
> been already freed from the reader stack.
>
> This could only happen if resolve_userfault_fork failed (for example
> if there are no file descriptors available to allocate the fork
> uffd). If it succeeded it was put back correctly.
>
> Furthermore, after find_userfault_evt receives a fork event, the
> forked userfault context in fork_nctx and
> uwq->msg.arg.reserved.reserved1 can be released by the fork thread as
> soon as the event_wqh.lock is released. Taking a reference on the
> fork_nctx before dropping the lock prevents an use after free in
> resolve_userfault_fork().
>
> If the fork side aborted and it already released everything, we still
> try to succeed resolve_userfault_fork(), if possible.
>
> Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> ---
> fs/userfaultfd.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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