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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, tonyj@suse.de, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] audit: Fix use after free in audit_remove_watch_rule()
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:00:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170815110037.30170-2-jack@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170815110037.30170-1-jack@suse.cz>

audit_remove_watch_rule() drops watch's reference to parent but then
continues to work with it. That is not safe as parent can get freed once
we drop our reference. The following is a trivial reproducer:

mount -o loop image /mnt
touch /mnt/file
auditctl -w /mnt/file -p wax
umount /mnt
auditctl -D
<crash in fsnotify_destroy_mark()>

Grab our own reference in audit_remove_watch_rule() earlier to make sure
mark does not get freed under us.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/audit_watch.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index 62d686d96581..ed748ee40029 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -457,13 +457,15 @@ void audit_remove_watch_rule(struct audit_krule *krule)
 	list_del(&krule->rlist);
 
 	if (list_empty(&watch->rules)) {
+		/*
+		 * audit_remove_watch() drops our reference to 'parent' which
+		 * can get freed. Grab our own reference to be safe.
+		 */
+		audit_get_parent(parent);
 		audit_remove_watch(watch);
-
-		if (list_empty(&parent->watches)) {
-			audit_get_parent(parent);
+		if (list_empty(&parent->watches))
 			fsnotify_destroy_mark(&parent->mark, audit_watch_group);
-			audit_put_parent(parent);
-		}
+		audit_put_parent(parent);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.12.3

       reply	other threads:[~2017-08-15 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170815110037.30170-1-jack@suse.cz>
2017-08-15 11:00 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2017-08-15 18:43   ` [PATCH 1/2] audit: Fix use after free in audit_remove_watch_rule() Tony Jones
2017-08-15 19:52   ` Paul Moore
2017-08-18  5:09   ` Richard Guy Briggs

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