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Message-ID: <1583932719.7365.171.camel@lca.pw>
Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:18:39 -0400
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Yuyang Du <duyuyang@...il.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        James Morris <jamorris@...ux.microsoft.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Christian Kellner <christian@...lner.me>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] exec: Add a exec_update_mutex to replace
 cred_guard_mutex

On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 16:38 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The cred_guard_mutex is problematic.  The cred_guard_mutex is held
> over the userspace accesses as the arguments from userspace are read.
> The cred_guard_mutex is held of PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT as the the other
> threads are killed.  The cred_guard_mutex is held over
> "put_user(0, tsk->clear_child_tid)" in exit_mm().
> 
> Any of those can result in deadlock, as the cred_guard_mutex is held
> over a possible indefinite userspace waits for userspace.
> 
> Add exec_update_mutex that is only held over exec updating process
> with the new contents of exec, so that code that needs not to be
> confused by exec changing the mm and the cred in ways that can not
> happen during ordinary execution of a process.
> 
> The plan is to switch the users of cred_guard_mutex to
> exec_udpate_mutex one by one.  This lets us move forward while still
> being careful and not introducing any regressions.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921152946.GA24210@dhcp22.suse.cz/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/AM6PR03MB5170B06F3A2B75EFB98D071AE4E60@AM6PR03MB5170.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20161102181806.GB1112@redhat.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160923095031.GA14923@redhat.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170213141452.GA30203@redhat.com/
> Ref: 45c1a159b85b ("Add PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE and PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT facilities.")
> Ref: 456f17cd1a28 ("[PATCH] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2")
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

This patch will trigger a warning during boot,

[   19.707214][    T1] pci 0035:01:00.0: enabling device (0545 -> 0547)
[   19.707287][    T1] EEH: Capable adapter found: recovery enabled.
[   19.732541][    T1] cpuidle-powernv: Default stop: psscr =
0x0000000000000330,mask=0x00000000003003ff
[   19.732567][    T1] cpuidle-powernv: Deepest stop: psscr =
0x0000000000300375,mask=0x00000000003003ff
[   19.732598][    T1] cpuidle-powernv: First stop level that may lose SPRs =
0x4
[   19.732617][    T1] cpuidle-powernv: First stop level that may lose timebase
= 0x10
[   19.769784][    T1] HugeTLB registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 0
pages
[   19.769810][    T1] HugeTLB registered 1.00 GiB page size, pre-allocated 0
pages
[   19.789344][  T718] 
[   19.789367][  T718] =====================================
[   19.789379][  T718] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
[   19.789393][  T718] 5.6.0-rc5-next-20200311+ #4 Not tainted
[   19.789414][  T718] -------------------------------------
[   19.789426][  T718] kworker/u257:0/718 is trying to release lock (&sig-
>exec_update_mutex) at:
[   19.789459][  T718] [<c0000000004c6770>] free_bprm+0xe0/0xf0
[   19.789481][  T718] but there are no more locks to release!
[   19.789502][  T718] 
[   19.789502][  T718] other info that might help us debug this:
[   19.789537][  T718] 1 lock held by kworker/u257:0/718:
[   19.789558][  T718]  #0: c000001fa8842808 (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.}, at:
__do_execve_file.isra.33+0x1b0/0xda0
[   19.789611][  T718] 
[   19.789611][  T718] stack backtrace:
[   19.789645][  T718] CPU: 8 PID: 718 Comm: kworker/u257:0 Not tainted 5.6.0-
rc5-next-20200311+ #4
[   19.789681][  T718] Call Trace:
[   19.789703][  T718] [c000000dad8cfa70] [c000000000979b40]
dump_stack+0xf4/0x164 (unreliable)
[   19.789742][  T718] [c000000dad8cfac0] [c0000000001c1d78]
print_unlock_imbalance_bug+0x118/0x140
[   19.789780][  T718] [c000000dad8cfb40] [c0000000001ceaa0]
lock_release+0x270/0x520
[   19.789817][  T718] [c000000dad8cfbf0] [c0000000009a2898]
__mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x68/0x400
[   19.789854][  T718] [c000000dad8cfcc0] [c0000000004c6770] free_bprm+0xe0/0xf0
[   19.789900][  T718] [c000000dad8cfcf0] [c0000000004c845c]
__do_execve_file.isra.33+0x44c/0xda0
__do_execve_file at fs/exec.c:1904
[   19.789938][  T718] [c000000dad8cfde0] [c0000000001391d8]
call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x218/0x250
[   19.789977][  T718] [c000000dad8cfe20] [c00000000000b748]
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74

> ---
>  fs/exec.c                    | 9 +++++++++
>  include/linux/sched/signal.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  init/init_task.c             | 1 +
>  kernel/fork.c                | 1 +
>  4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index d820a7272a76..ffeebb1f167b 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  	struct task_struct *tsk;
>  	struct mm_struct *old_mm, *active_mm;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	/* Notify parent that we're no longer interested in the old VM */
>  	tsk = current;
> @@ -1034,6 +1035,11 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  			return -EINTR;
>  		}
>  	}
> +
> +	ret = mutex_lock_killable(&tsk->signal->exec_update_mutex);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
>  	task_lock(tsk);
>  	active_mm = tsk->active_mm;
>  	membarrier_exec_mmap(mm);
> @@ -1438,6 +1444,8 @@ static void free_bprm(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>  {
>  	free_arg_pages(bprm);
>  	if (bprm->cred) {
> +		if (!bprm->mm)
> +			mutex_unlock(&current->signal->exec_update_mutex);
>  		mutex_unlock(&current->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
>  		abort_creds(bprm->cred);
>  	}
> @@ -1487,6 +1495,7 @@ void install_exec_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>  	 * credentials; any time after this it may be unlocked.
>  	 */
>  	security_bprm_committed_creds(bprm);
> +	mutex_unlock(&current->signal->exec_update_mutex);
>  	mutex_unlock(&current->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(install_exec_creds);
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
> index 88050259c466..a29df79540ce 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
> @@ -224,7 +224,14 @@ struct signal_struct {
>  
>  	struct mutex cred_guard_mutex;	/* guard against foreign influences on
>  					 * credential calculations
> -					 * (notably. ptrace) */
> +					 * (notably. ptrace)
> +					 * Deprecated do not use in new code.
> +					 * Use exec_update_mutex instead.
> +					 */
> +	struct mutex exec_update_mutex;	/* Held while task_struct is being
> +					 * updated during exec, and may have
> +					 * inconsistent permissions.
> +					 */
>  } __randomize_layout;
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
> index 9e5cbe5eab7b..bd403ed3e418 100644
> --- a/init/init_task.c
> +++ b/init/init_task.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ static struct signal_struct init_signals = {
>  	.multiprocess	= HLIST_HEAD_INIT,
>  	.rlim		= INIT_RLIMITS,
>  	.cred_guard_mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(init_signals.cred_guard_mutex),
> +	.exec_update_mutex = __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(init_signals.exec_update_mutex),
>  #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
>  	.posix_timers = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_signals.posix_timers),
>  	.cputimer	= {
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 60a1295f4384..12896a6ecee6 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1594,6 +1594,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
>  	sig->oom_score_adj_min = current->signal->oom_score_adj_min;
>  
>  	mutex_init(&sig->cred_guard_mutex);
> +	mutex_init(&sig->exec_update_mutex);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }

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