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| author | Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> | 2017-05-09 09:39:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2017-05-22 22:21:16 +0200 |
| commit | 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e (patch) | |
| tree | 652f4e0fccb85573bde0ada8e74c15ff0295fb3f /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 5ea30e4e58040cfd6434c2f33dc3ea76e2c15b05 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e.tar.bz2 | |
kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index d681f8f10d2d..b7cdea10239c 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1553,6 +1553,18 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( 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); @@ -1716,11 +1728,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process( } } - 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 |