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Date:   Fri, 9 Jul 2021 21:52:06 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <tj@...nel.org>,
        <jiangshanlai@...il.com>, <xuqiang36@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] workqueue: fix UAF in pwq_unbound_release_workfn()

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 15:11:00 +0800
Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com> wrote:

> I got a UAF report when doing fuzz test:
> 
> [  152.880091][ T8030]
> ================================================================== [
> 152.881240][ T8030] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in
> pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0x50/0x190 [  152.882442][ T8030] Read of
> size 4 at addr ffff88810d31bd00 by task kworker/3:2/8030 [
> 152.883578][ T8030] [  152.883932][ T8030] CPU: 3 PID: 8030 Comm:
> kworker/3:2 Not tainted 5.13.0+ #249 [  152.885014][ T8030] Hardware
> name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1
> 04/01/2014 [  152.886442][ T8030] Workqueue: events
> pwq_unbound_release_workfn [  152.887358][ T8030] Call Trace: [
> 152.887837][ T8030]  dump_stack_lvl+0x75/0x9b [  152.888525][ T8030]
> ? pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0x50/0x190 [  152.889371][ T8030]
> print_address_description.constprop.10+0x48/0x70 [  152.890326][
> T8030]  ? pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0x50/0x190 [  152.891163][
> T8030]  ? pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0x50/0x190 [  152.891999][
> T8030]  kasan_report.cold.15+0x82/0xdb [  152.892740][ T8030]  ?
> pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0x50/0x190 [  152.893594][ T8030]
> __asan_load4+0x69/0x90 [  152.894243][ T8030]
> pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0x50/0x190 [  152.895057][ T8030]
> process_one_work+0x47b/0x890 [  152.895778][ T8030]
> worker_thread+0x5c/0x790 [  152.896439][ T8030]  ?
> process_one_work+0x890/0x890 [  152.897163][ T8030]
> kthread+0x223/0x250 [  152.897747][ T8030]  ?
> set_kthread_struct+0xb0/0xb0 [  152.898471][ T8030]
> ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [  152.899114][ T8030] [  152.899446][ T8030]
> Allocated by task 8884: [  152.900084][ T8030]
> kasan_save_stack+0x21/0x50 [  152.900769][ T8030]
> __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xb0 [  152.901416][ T8030]
> __kmalloc+0x29c/0x460 [  152.902014][ T8030]
> alloc_workqueue+0x111/0x8e0 [  152.902690][ T8030]
> __btrfs_alloc_workqueue+0x11e/0x2a0 [  152.903459][ T8030]
> btrfs_alloc_workqueue+0x6d/0x1d0 [  152.904198][ T8030]
> scrub_workers_get+0x1e8/0x490 [  152.904929][ T8030]
> btrfs_scrub_dev+0x1b9/0x9c0 [  152.905599][ T8030]
> btrfs_ioctl+0x122c/0x4e50 [  152.906247][ T8030]
> __x64_sys_ioctl+0x137/0x190 [  152.906916][ T8030]
> do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [  152.907535][ T8030]
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [  152.908365][ T8030]
> [  152.908688][ T8030] Freed by task 8884:
> [  152.909243][ T8030]  kasan_save_stack+0x21/0x50
> [  152.909893][ T8030]  kasan_set_track+0x20/0x30
> [  152.910541][ T8030]  kasan_set_free_info+0x24/0x40
> [  152.911265][ T8030]  __kasan_slab_free+0xf7/0x140
> [  152.911964][ T8030]  kfree+0x9e/0x3d0
> [  152.912501][ T8030]  alloc_workqueue+0x7d7/0x8e0
> [  152.913182][ T8030]  __btrfs_alloc_workqueue+0x11e/0x2a0
> [  152.913949][ T8030]  btrfs_alloc_workqueue+0x6d/0x1d0
> [  152.914703][ T8030]  scrub_workers_get+0x1e8/0x490
> [  152.915402][ T8030]  btrfs_scrub_dev+0x1b9/0x9c0
> [  152.916077][ T8030]  btrfs_ioctl+0x122c/0x4e50
> [  152.916729][ T8030]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x137/0x190
> [  152.917414][ T8030]  do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
> [  152.918034][ T8030]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [  152.918872][ T8030]
> [  152.919203][ T8030] The buggy address belongs to the object at
> ffff88810d31bc00 [  152.919203][ T8030]  which belongs to the cache
> kmalloc-512 of size 512 [  152.921155][ T8030] The buggy address is
> located 256 bytes inside of [  152.921155][ T8030]  512-byte region
> [ffff88810d31bc00, ffff88810d31be00) [  152.922993][ T8030] The buggy
> address belongs to the page: [  152.923800][ T8030]
> page:ffffea000434c600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
> index:0x0 pfn:0x10d318 [  152.925249][ T8030] head:ffffea000434c600
> order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 [  152.926399][
> T8030] flags:
> 0x57ff00000010200(slab|head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff) [
> 152.927515][ T8030] raw: 057ff00000010200 dead000000000100
> dead000000000122 ffff888009c42c80 [  152.928716][ T8030] raw:
> 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 [
>  152.929890][ T8030] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
> [  152.930759][ T8030] [  152.931076][ T8030] Memory state around the
> buggy address: [  152.931851][ T8030]  ffff88810d31bc00: fa fb fb fb
> fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [  152.932967][ T8030]
> ffff88810d31bc80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb [
> 152.934068][ T8030] >ffff88810d31bd00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> fb fb fb fb fb fb [  152.935189][ T8030]                    ^ [
> 152.935763][ T8030]  ffff88810d31bd80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> fb fb fb fb fb fb [  152.936847][ T8030]  ffff88810d31be00: fc fc fc
> fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [  152.937940][ T8030]
> ==================================================================
> 
> If apply_wqattrs_prepare() fails in alloc_workqueue(), it will call
> put_pwq() which invoke a work queue to call
> pwq_unbound_release_workfn() and use the 'wq'. The 'wq' allocated in
> alloc_workqueue() will be freed in error path when
> apply_wqattrs_prepare() fails. So it will lead a UAF.
> 
> CPU0                                          CPU1
> alloc_workqueue()
> alloc_and_link_pwqs()
> apply_wqattrs_prepare() fails
> apply_wqattrs_cleanup()
> schedule_work(&pwq->unbound_release_work)
> kfree(wq)
>                                               worker_thread()
>                                               pwq_unbound_release_workfn()
> <- trigger uaf here
> 
> If apply_wqattrs_prepare() fails, the new pwqs are not linked, we
> don't need the worker to free them, so just free the 'ctx' and its
> members in the error path.
> 
> Fixes: 2d5f0764b526 ("workqueue: split apply_workqueue_attrs() into 3
> stages") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
> Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
> Co-developed-by: Xu Qiang <xuqiang36@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Qiang <xuqiang36@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
> ---
> v2:
>   also use free_wqattrs_ctx() in workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask()
> ---
>  kernel/workqueue.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> index 50142fc08902..a2966ff19c50 100644
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -3898,6 +3898,31 @@ struct apply_wqattrs_ctx {
>  	struct pool_workqueue	*pwq_tbl[];
>  };
>  
> +static void free_pwq(struct pool_workqueue *pwq)
> +{
> +	if (!pwq || --pwq->refcnt)
> +		return;
> +
> +	put_unbound_pool(pwq->pool);
> +	kmem_cache_free(pwq_cache, pwq);
> +}
> +
> +static void free_wqattrs_ctx(struct apply_wqattrs_ctx *ctx)
> +{
> +	int node;
> +
> +	if (!ctx)
> +		return;
> +
> +	for_each_node(node)
> +		free_pwq(ctx->pwq_tbl[node]);
> +	free_pwq(ctx->dfl_pwq);
> +
> +	free_workqueue_attrs(ctx->attrs);
> +
> +	kfree(ctx);
> +}
> +
>  /* free the resources after success or abort */
>  static void apply_wqattrs_cleanup(struct apply_wqattrs_ctx *ctx)
>  {
> @@ -3981,7 +4006,7 @@ apply_wqattrs_prepare(struct workqueue_struct
> *wq, out_free:
>  	free_workqueue_attrs(tmp_attrs);
>  	free_workqueue_attrs(new_attrs);
> -	apply_wqattrs_cleanup(ctx);
> +	free_wqattrs_ctx(ctx);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>  
> @@ -5309,9 +5334,12 @@ static int
> workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask(void) }
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(ctx, n, &ctxs, list) {
> -		if (!ret)
> +		if (!ret) {
>  			apply_wqattrs_commit(ctx);
> -		apply_wqattrs_cleanup(ctx);
> +			apply_wqattrs_cleanup(ctx);
> +		} else {
> +			free_wqattrs_ctx(ctx);
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	return ret;


With this patch applied my local syzbot instance didn't hit any of the
reported bugs. Also, I ran syz-repro with all 3 crash reports [1] and
didn't hit any bugs as well. Thank you for the fix!


Tested-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com> 


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210708162417.777bff77@gmail.com/


With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

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