Re: [PATCH] pstore: Fix uaf when backend is unregistered

[Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 01:10:14AM +0800, Zach Wade wrote:
> when unload pstore_blk, we will unlink the pstore file and
> set pos->dentry to NULL, but simple_unlink(d_inode(root), pos->dentry)
> may free inode of pos->dentry and free pos by free_pstore_private,
> this may trigger uaf. kasan report:

Thanks for this! I need to double check what happening here a bit more
closely, as maybe some ordering changed after a43e0fc5e913 ("pstore:
inode: Only d_invalidate() is needed")

> @@ -316,9 +316,10 @@ int pstore_put_backend_records(struct pstore_info *psi)
>  		list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, tmp, &records_list, list) {
>  			if (pos->record->psi == psi) {
>  				list_del_init(&pos->list);
> -				d_invalidate(pos->dentry);
> -				simple_unlink(d_inode(root), pos->dentry);
> +				unlink_dentry = pos->dentry;
>  				pos->dentry = NULL;
> +				d_invalidate(unlink_dentry);
> +				simple_unlink(d_inode(root), unlink_dentry);

But on the face of it, this does solve the UAF. I'll double-check that
this isn't a result of the mentioned commit.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook