linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 01/62] securityfs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal

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Message-Id: <20190416175340.21068-1-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:52:39 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 01/62] securityfs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal

From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

symlink body shouldn't be freed without an RCU delay.  Switch securityfs
to ->destroy_inode() and use of call_rcu(); free both the inode and symlink
body in the callback.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
 security/inode.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
index b7772a9b315e..421dd72b5876 100644
--- a/security/inode.c
+++ b/security/inode.c
@@ -27,17 +27,22 @@
 static struct vfsmount *mount;
 static int mount_count;
 
-static void securityfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
+static void securityfs_i_callback(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
-	truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data);
-	clear_inode(inode);
+	struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
 	if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
 		kfree(inode->i_link);
+	free_inode_nonrcu(inode);
+}
+
+static void securityfs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	call_rcu(&inode->i_rcu, securityfs_i_callback);
 }
 
 static const struct super_operations securityfs_super_operations = {
 	.statfs		= simple_statfs,
-	.evict_inode	= securityfs_evict_inode,
+	.destroy_inode	= securityfs_destroy_inode,
 };
 
 static int fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
-- 
2.11.0