Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 10/17, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> >
> > For both UMH_NO_WAIT and UMH_WAIT_EXEC cases,
> >
> > kernel_thread(call_helper, sub_info, CLONE_VFORK | SIGCHLD)
> >
> > in __call_usermodehelper() waits for do_execve() to succeed or do_exit(),
>
> Well, not really. kernel_thread(CLONE_VFORK) waits for do_exit() or
> exec_mmap(), and exec can fail after that.
Ah, I see. Here is a draft of an updated patch.
Can we rewrite
Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> for UMH_WAIT_EXEC the call to umh_complete() allows
> call_usermodehelper_exec() to continue which then frees sub_info.
lines?
By the way, it seems to me that nothing prevents
if (info->cleanup)
(*info->cleanup)(info);
>from crashing when info->cleanup points to a function in a loadable kernel
module and the loadable kernel module got unloaded before the worker thread
calls call_usermodehelper_freeinfo().
----------
[PATCH] kernel/kmod: fix use-after-free of the sub_info structure
A use-after-free bug was found on the subprocess_info structure allocated
by the user mode helper.
The message log on a s390 system:
-----
BUG kmalloc-192 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
INFO: 0x00000000684761f4-0x00000000684761f7. First byte 0xff instead of 0x6b
INFO: Allocated in call_usermodehelper_setup+0x70/0x128 age=71 cpu=2 pid=648
__slab_alloc.isra.47.constprop.56+0x5f6/0x658
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x106/0x408
call_usermodehelper_setup+0x70/0x128
call_usermodehelper+0x62/0x90
cgroup_release_agent+0x178/0x1c0
process_one_work+0x36e/0x680
worker_thread+0x2f0/0x4f8
kthread+0x10a/0x120
kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
INFO: Freed in call_usermodehelper_exec+0x110/0x1b8 age=71 cpu=2 pid=648
__slab_free+0x94/0x560
kfree+0x364/0x3e0
call_usermodehelper_exec+0x110/0x1b8
cgroup_release_agent+0x178/0x1c0
process_one_work+0x36e/0x680
worker_thread+0x2f0/0x4f8
kthread+0x10a/0x120
kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
-----
Regarding UMH_NO_WAIT, the sub_info structure can be freed by
__call_usermodehelper() before the worker thread returns from
do_execve(), allowing memory corruption when do_execve() failed
after exec_mmap() is called.
Regarding UMH_WAIT_EXEC, the call to umh_complete() allows
call_usermodehelper_exec() to continue which then frees sub_info.
To fix this race, we need to make sure that the call to
call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() in call_usermodehelper_exec() is
always made after the last store to sub_info->retval.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com>
---
kernel/kmod.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 8637e04..378b47f 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -196,12 +196,33 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__request_module);
#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
+static void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info)
+{
+ if (info->cleanup)
+ (*info->cleanup)(info);
+ kfree(info);
+}
+
+static void umh_complete(struct subprocess_info *sub_info)
+{
+ struct completion *comp = xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL);
+ /*
+ * See call_usermodehelper_exec(). If xchg() returns NULL
+ * we own sub_info, the caller has gone away.
+ */
+ if (comp)
+ complete(comp);
+ else
+ call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
+}
+
/*
* This is the task which runs the usermode application
*/
static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;
+ int wait = sub_info->wait & ~UMH_KILLABLE;
struct cred *new;
int retval;
@@ -242,12 +263,13 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
retval = do_execve(getname_kernel(sub_info->path),
(const char __user *const __user *)sub_info->argv,
(const char __user *const __user *)sub_info->envp);
- if (!retval)
- return 0;
-
- /* Exec failed? */
fail:
sub_info->retval = retval;
+ /* wait_for_helper() will call umh_complete() if UMH_WAIT_PROC. */
+ if (wait != UMH_WAIT_PROC)
+ umh_complete(sub_info);
+ if (!retval)
+ return 0;
do_exit(0);
}
@@ -258,26 +280,6 @@ static int call_helper(void *data)
return ____call_usermodehelper(data);
}
-static void call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(struct subprocess_info *info)
-{
- if (info->cleanup)
- (*info->cleanup)(info);
- kfree(info);
-}
-
-static void umh_complete(struct subprocess_info *sub_info)
-{
- struct completion *comp = xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL);
- /*
- * See call_usermodehelper_exec(). If xchg() returns NULL
- * we own sub_info, the UMH_KILLABLE caller has gone away.
- */
- if (comp)
- complete(comp);
- else
- call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
-}
-
/* Keventd can't block, but this (a child) can. */
static int wait_for_helper(void *data)
{
@@ -336,18 +338,8 @@ static void __call_usermodehelper(struct work_struct *work)
kmod_thread_locker = NULL;
}
- switch (wait) {
- case UMH_NO_WAIT:
- call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
- break;
-
- case UMH_WAIT_PROC:
- if (pid > 0)
- break;
- /* FALLTHROUGH */
- case UMH_WAIT_EXEC:
- if (pid < 0)
- sub_info->retval = pid;
+ if (pid < 0) {
+ sub_info->retval = pid;
umh_complete(sub_info);
}
}
@@ -588,7 +580,7 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info
*sub_info, int wait)
goto out;
}
- sub_info->complete = &done;
+ sub_info->complete = (wait == UMH_NO_WAIT) ? NULL : &done;
sub_info->wait = wait;
queue_work(khelper_wq, &sub_info->work);
--
1.7.1
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