linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix mm->owner point to a tsk that has been free

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:24:44 +0800
From:   gchen.guomin@...il.com
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>, <guominchen@...cent.com>
Cc:     guomin chen <gchen.guomin@...il.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix mm->owner point to a tsk that has been free

From: guomin chen <gchen.guomin@...il.com>

When mm->owner is modified by exit_mm, if the new owner directly calls
unuse_mm to exit, it will cause Use-After-Free. Due to the unuse_mm()
directly sets tsk->mm=NULL.

 Under normal circumstances,When do_exit exits, mm->owner will
 be updated on exit_mm(). but when the kernel process calls
 unuse_mm() and then exits,mm->owner cannot be updated. And it
 will point to a task that has been released.

The current issue flow is as follows: (Process A,B,C use the same mm)
Process C              Process A         Process B
qemu-system-x86_64:     kernel:vhost_net  kernel: vhost_net
open /dev/vhost-net
  VHOST_SET_OWNER   create kthread vhost-%d  create kthread vhost-%d
  network init           use_mm()          use_mm()
   ...                   ...
   Abnormal exited
   ...
  do_exit
  exit_mm()
  update mm->owner to A
  exit_files()
   close_files()
   kthread_should_stop() unuse_mm()
    Stop Process A       tsk->mm=NULL
                         do_exit()
                         can't update owner
                         A exit completed  vhost-%d  rcv first package
                                           vhost-%d build rcv buffer for vq
                                           page fault
                                           access mm & mm->owner
                                           NOW,mm->owner still pointer A
                                           kernel UAF
    stop Process B

Although I am having this issue on vhost_net,But it affects all users of
unuse_mm.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: guomin chen <gchen.guomin@...il.com>
---
 mm/mmu_context.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/mmu_context.c b/mm/mmu_context.c
index 3e612ae..9eb81aa 100644
--- a/mm/mmu_context.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_context.c
@@ -60,5 +60,6 @@ void unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	/* active_mm is still 'mm' */
 	enter_lazy_tlb(mm, tsk);
 	task_unlock(tsk);
+	mm_update_next_owner(mm);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unuse_mm);
-- 
1.8.3.1