linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] nbd: fix uaf in nbd_handle

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Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:44:01 +0800
From:   "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     <axboe@...nel.dk>, <josef@...icpanda.com>, <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <nbd@...er.debian.org>, <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] nbd: fix uaf in nbd_handle_reply()

On 2021/09/15 16:20, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 04:15:37PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
>> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
>> @@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ void blk_queue_exit(struct request_queue *q)
>>   {
>>   	percpu_ref_put(&q->q_usage_counter);
>>   }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_exit);
> 
> These needs to be an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.  But more importantly it
> needs to be a separate properly documented patch, and this function
> needs to grow a kerneldoc comment as well.
> 
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Get q_usage_counter can prevent accessing freed request
>> +		 * through blk_mq_tag_to_rq() in nbd_handle_reply(). If
>> +		 * q_usage_counter is zero, then no request is inflight, which
>> +		 * means something is wrong since we expect to find a request to
>> +		 * complete here.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter)) {
>> +			dev_err(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "%s: no io inflight\n",
>> +				__func__);
>> +			break;
>> +		}
> 
> And this needs a properly documented wrapper as well.
> 
>> +
>>   		cmd = nbd_handle_reply(nbd, args->index, &reply);
>> -		if (IS_ERR(cmd))
>> +		if (IS_ERR(cmd)) {
>> +			blk_queue_exit(q);
>>   			break;
>> +		}
>>   
>>   		rq = blk_mq_rq_from_pdu(cmd);
>>   		if (likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(rq->q)))
>>   			blk_mq_complete_request(rq);
>> +		blk_queue_exit(q);
> 
> That being said I can't say I like how this exposed block layer
> internals.  We don't really need a reference to the queue here
> anywhere, you just use it as a dumb debug check.  If we really want to
> reuse (abuse?) q_usage_counter a helper to just grab a reference and
> immediately drop it might be a better fit.
> .

Hi,

The uaf is because blk_mq_sched_free_requests() can concurrent with
nbd_read_stat(), and hold the ref during nbd_read_stat() can break the
concurrency, thus the ref can't be dropped immediately.

I'll use percpu_ref_put() directly as Ming suggestted.

Thanks,
Kuai