linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 035/105] kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails

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Message-Id: <20180924113117.450989434@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:33:21 +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, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...cle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 035/105] kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails

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

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

From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>

commit 4d6501dce079c1eb6bf0b1d8f528a5e81770109e upstream.

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@...cle.com>
Fixes: 1da5c46fa965 ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed")
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...cle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/fork.c |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1243,6 +1243,18 @@ static 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);
@@ -1406,11 +1418,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
 			goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
 	}
 
-	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