linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:55:06 -0500
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe_file causing
 use-after-free

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 04:40:36PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/24, Eric Biggers wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > On 08/23, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> > > >
> > > > Commit 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for
> > > > write killable") made it possible to kill a forking task while it is
> > > > waiting to acquire its ->mmap_sem for write, in dup_mmap().  However, it
> > > > was overlooked that this introduced an new error path before a reference
> > > > is taken on the mm_struct's ->exe_file.
> > >
> > > Hmm. Unless I am totally confused, the same problem with mm->exol_area?
> > > I'll recheck....
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by ->exol_area.
> 
> I meant mm->uprobes_state.xol_area, sorry
> 

Yep, that's a bug too.  I was able to cause a use-after-free using the same
reproducer program I gave in my commit message, after setting a uprobe
tracepoint on the beginning of the fork_thread() function.  I'll send a patch to
fix it when I have a chance.

Eric