[PATCH 4.9 06/70] kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17T22:58:21Z

From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>

commit 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e upstream.

If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46fa965) but
fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting
p->set_child_tid, then the value of p->set_child_tid will be inherited
from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct().

kthread()
- worker_thread()
- process_one_work()
| - call_usermodehelper_exec_work()
| - kernel_thread()
| - _do_fork()
| - copy_process()
| - dup_task_struct()
| - arch_dup_task_struct()
| - tsk->set_child_tid = current->set_child_tid // implied
| - ...
| - goto bad_fork_*
| - ...
| - free_task(tsk)
| - free_kthread_struct(tsk)
| - kfree(tsk->set_child_tid)
- ...
- schedule()
- __schedule()
- wq_worker_sleeping()
- kthread_data(task)->flags // UAF

The problem started showing up with commit 1da5c46fa965 since it reused
->set_child_tid for the kthread worker data.

A better long-term solution might be to get rid of the ->set_child_tid
abuse. The comment in set_kthread_struct() also looks slightly wrong.

Debugged-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Fixes: 1da5c46fa965 ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed")
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/fork.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1532,6 +1532,18 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_stru
if (!p)
goto fork_out;

+ /*
+ * This _must_ happen before we call free_task(), i.e. before we jump
+ * to any of the bad_fork_* labels. This is to avoid freeing
+ * p->set_child_tid which is (ab)used as a kthread's data pointer for
+ * kernel threads (PF_KTHREAD).
+ */
+ p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
+ /*
+ * Clear TID on mm_release()?
+ */
+ p->clear_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
+
ftrace_graph_init_task(p);

rt_mutex_init_task(p);
@@ -1693,11 +1705,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_stru
}
}

- p->set_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_SETTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
- /*
- * Clear TID on mm_release()?
- */
- p->clear_child_tid = (clone_flags & CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID) ? child_tidptr : NULL;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
p->plug = NULL;
#endif