Re: [PATCH 1/1] psi: Fix uaf issue when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled

Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-01-11T07:16:30Z

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 7:55 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 7:12 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 06:51:38PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > With write operation on psi files replacing old trigger with a new one,
> > > the lifetime of its waitqueue is totally arbitrary. Overwriting an
> > > existing trigger causes its waitqueue to be freed and pending poll()
> > > will stumble on trigger->event_wait which was destroyed.
> > > Fix this by disallowing to redefine an existing psi trigger. If a write
> > > operation is used on a file descriptor with an already existing psi
> > > trigger, the operation will fail with EBUSY error.
> > > Also bypass a check for psi_disabled in the psi_trigger_destroy as the
> > > flag can be flipped after the trigger is created, leading to a memory
> > > leak.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+cdb5dd11c97cc532efad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > Analyzed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> > > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> >
> > Please include Fixes and Cc stable tags.
>
> Ack.
>
> >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> > > index cafb8c114a21..e6878238fb19 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> > > @@ -3642,6 +3642,12 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_pressure_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
> > > cgroup_get(cgrp);
> > > cgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
> > >
> > > + /* Allow only one trigger per file descriptor */
> > > + if (READ_ONCE(ctx->psi.trigger)) {
> > > + cgroup_put(cgrp);
> > > + return -EBUSY;
> > > + }
> > > +
> >
> > Doesn't the task have exclusive access to the file at this point? READ_ONCE()
> > is only needed instead of a plain load when the field can be concurrently
> > changed by another thread.
>
> Yeah, you are right. Concurrent writes are serialized by of->mutex and
> kernfs_release_file documents "@of is guaranteed to have no other file
> operations in flight", so ->release() can't race with ->write(). Will
> fix.
>
> >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> > > index 1652f2bb54b7..882bf62cc247 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> > > @@ -1151,7 +1151,6 @@ struct psi_trigger *psi_trigger_create(struct psi_group *group,
> > > t->event = 0;
> > > t->last_event_time = 0;
> > > init_waitqueue_head(&t->event_wait);
> > > - kref_init(&t->refcount);
> > >
> > > mutex_lock(&group->trigger_lock);
> > >
> > > @@ -1180,15 +1179,21 @@ struct psi_trigger *psi_trigger_create(struct psi_group *group,
> > > return t;
> > > }
> > >
> > > -static void psi_trigger_destroy(struct kref *ref)
> > > +void psi_trigger_destroy(void **trigger_ptr)
> > > {
> > > - struct psi_trigger *t = container_of(ref, struct psi_trigger, refcount);
> > > - struct psi_group *group = t->group;
> > > + struct psi_trigger *t;
> > > + struct psi_group *group;
> > > struct task_struct *task_to_destroy = NULL;
> > >
> > > - if (static_branch_likely(&psi_disabled))
> > > + /*
> > > + * We do not check psi_disabled since it might have been disabled after
> > > + * the trigger got created.
> > > + */
> > > + t = xchg(trigger_ptr, NULL);
> > > + if (!t)
> > > return;
> >
> > Likewise, doesn't the task have exclusive access to the file at this point?
> > This is only called during ->release().
>
> Yes, will fix.
>
> >
> > And why does this take a pointer to a pointer instead of just the pointer?
>
> That was done to do atomic xchg, but as you mentioned, it's not needed
> here. Will change.
>
> >
> > > @@ -1305,14 +1289,24 @@ static ssize_t psi_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
> > >
> > > buf[buf_size - 1] = '\0';
> > >
> > > - new = psi_trigger_create(&psi_system, buf, nbytes, res);
> > > - if (IS_ERR(new))
> > > - return PTR_ERR(new);
> > > -
> > > seq = file->private_data;
> > > +
> > > /* Take seq->lock to protect seq->private from concurrent writes */
> > > mutex_lock(&seq->lock);
> > > - psi_trigger_replace(&seq->private, new);
> > > +
> > > + /* Allow only one trigger per file descriptor */
> > > + if (READ_ONCE(seq->private)) {
> > > + mutex_unlock(&seq->lock);
> > > + return -EBUSY;
> > > + }
> >
> > Likewise, what does this race against that would require the use of READ_ONCE()?
>
> Will fix.
> Thanks!

Posted v2 at https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220111071212.1210124-1-surenb@google.com

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> >
> > - Eric