linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/pid fix use-after free in task_tgid

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Message-id: <20161209093351epcms1p418673c3cdec7d4c3e81b5df131173c57@epcms1p4>
Date:   Fri, 09 Dec 2016 09:33:51 +0000
From:   EunTaik Lee <eun.taik.lee@...sung.com>
To:     mingo@...hat.com <mingo@...hat.com>,
        peterz@...radead.org <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org 
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/pid fix use-after free in task_tgid_vnr

There is a use-after-free case with below call stack.

pid_nr_ns+0x10/0x38
cgroup_pidlist_start+0x144/0x400
cgroup_seqfile_start+0x1c/0x24
kernfs_seq_start+0x54/0x90
seq_read+0x15c/0x3a8
kernfs_fop_read+0x38/0x160
__vfs_read+0x28/0xc8
vfs_read+0x84/0xfc

A task in the cg_list was dying and the group_leader's
task struct was already freed.

To avoid this task_tgid_vnr needs to take the
rcu_read_lock and check for pid_alive.

Signed-off-by: Eun Taik Lee <eun.taik.lee@...sung.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index e9c009d..ed567bc 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2118,14 +2118,21 @@ static inline pid_t task_tgid_nr(struct task_struct *tsk)
 }
 
 pid_t task_tgid_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns);
+static inline int pid_alive(const struct task_struct *p);
 
 static inline pid_t task_tgid_vnr(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	return pid_vnr(task_tgid(tsk));
+	pid_t pid = 0;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	if (pid_alive(tsk))
+		pid = pid_vnr(task_tgid(tsk));
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return pid;
 }
 
 
-static inline int pid_alive(const struct task_struct *p);
 static inline pid_t task_ppid_nr_ns(const struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
 {
 	pid_t pid = 0;
-- 
1.9.1