linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 34/47] userns: move user access out of the mutex

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Date:   Fri,  7 Sep 2018 23:10:30 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 34/47] userns: move user access out of the mutex

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>

commit 5820f140edef111a9ea2ef414ab2428b8cb805b1 upstream.

The old code would hold the userns_state_mutex indefinitely if
memdup_user_nul stalled due to e.g. a userfault region. Prevent that by
moving the memdup_user_nul in front of the mutex_lock().

Note: This changes the error precedence of invalid buf/count/*ppos vs
map already written / capabilities missing.

Fixes: 22d917d80e84 ("userns: Rework the user_namespace adding uid/gid...")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/user_namespace.c |   22 ++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -604,7 +604,16 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
 	struct uid_gid_extent *extent = NULL;
 	unsigned long page = 0;
 	char *kbuf, *pos, *next_line;
-	ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
+	ssize_t ret;
+
+	/* Only allow < page size writes at the beginning of the file */
+	if ((*ppos != 0) || (count >= PAGE_SIZE))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* Slurp in the user data */
+	if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	kbuf[count] = '\0';

 	/*
 	 * The userns_state_mutex serializes all writes to any given map.
@@ -645,17 +654,6 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
 	if (!page)
 		goto out;

-	/* Only allow < page size writes at the beginning of the file */
-	ret = -EINVAL;
-	if ((*ppos != 0) || (count >= PAGE_SIZE))
-		goto out;
-
-	/* Slurp in the user data */
-	ret = -EFAULT;
-	if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))
-		goto out;
-	kbuf[count] = '\0';
-
 	/* Parse the user data */
 	ret = -EINVAL;
 	pos = kbuf;