linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] net: rose: fix UAF bug caused by rose_t0timer

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 23:51:21 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
From:   duoming@....edu.cn
To:     "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: rose: fix UAF bug caused by
 rose_t0timer_expiry

Hello,

On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:17:10 +0200 Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > > > There are UAF bugs caused by rose_t0timer_expiry(). The
> > > > root cause is that del_timer() could not stop the timer
> > > > handler that is running and there is no synchronization.
> > > > One of the race conditions is shown below:
> > > >
> > > >     (thread 1)             |        (thread 2)
> > > >                            | rose_device_event
> > > >                            |   rose_rt_device_down
> > > >                            |     rose_remove_neigh
> > > > rose_t0timer_expiry        |       rose_stop_t0timer(rose_neigh)
> > > >   ...                      |         del_timer(&neigh->t0timer)
> > > >                            |         kfree(rose_neigh) //[1]FREE
> > > >   neigh->dce_mode //[2]USE |
> > > >
> > > > The rose_neigh is deallocated in position [1] and use in
> > > > position [2].
> > > >
> > > > The crash trace triggered by POC is like below:
> > > >
> > > > BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in expire_timers+0x144/0x320
> > > > Write of size 8 at addr ffff888009b19658 by task swapper/0/0
> > > > ...
> > > > Call Trace:
> > > >  <IRQ>
> > > >  dump_stack_lvl+0xbf/0xee
> > > >  print_address_description+0x7b/0x440
> > > >  print_report+0x101/0x230
> > > >  ? expire_timers+0x144/0x320
> > > >  kasan_report+0xed/0x120
> > > >  ? expire_timers+0x144/0x320
> > > >  expire_timers+0x144/0x320
> > > >  __run_timers+0x3ff/0x4d0
> > > >  run_timer_softirq+0x41/0x80
> > > >  __do_softirq+0x233/0x544
> > > >  ...
> > > >
> > > > This patch changes del_timer() in rose_stop_t0timer() and
> > > > rose_stop_ftimer() to del_timer_sync() in order that the
> > > > timer handler could be finished before the resources such as
> > > > rose_neigh and so on are deallocated. As a result, the UAF
> > > > bugs could be mitigated.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
> > > > ---
> > > >  net/rose/rose_link.c | 4 ++--
> > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/net/rose/rose_link.c b/net/rose/rose_link.c
> > > > index 8b96a56d3a4..9734d1264de 100644
> > > > --- a/net/rose/rose_link.c
> > > > +++ b/net/rose/rose_link.c
> > > > @@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ static void rose_start_t0timer(struct rose_neigh *neigh)
> > > >
> > > >  void rose_stop_ftimer(struct rose_neigh *neigh)
> > > >  {
> > > > -       del_timer(&neigh->ftimer);
> > > > +       del_timer_sync(&neigh->ftimer);
> > > >  }
> > >
> > > Are you sure this is safe ?
> > >
> > > del_timer_sync() could hang if the caller holds a lock that the timer
> > > function would need to acquire.
> >
> > I think this is safe. The rose_ftimer_expiry() is an empty function that is
> > shown below:
> >
> > static void rose_ftimer_expiry(struct timer_list *t)
> > {
> > }
> >
> > > >
> > > >  void rose_stop_t0timer(struct rose_neigh *neigh)
> > > >  {
> > > > -       del_timer(&neigh->t0timer);
> > > > +       del_timer_sync(&neigh->t0timer);
> > > >  }
> > >
> > > Same here, please explain why it is safe.
> >
> > The rose_stop_t0timer() may hold "rose_node_list_lock" and "rose_neigh_list_lock",
> > but the timer handler rose_t0timer_expiry() that is shown below does not need
> > these two locks.
> >
> > static void rose_t0timer_expiry(struct timer_list *t)
> > {
> >         struct rose_neigh *neigh = from_timer(neigh, t, t0timer);
> >
> >         rose_transmit_restart_request(neigh);
> >
> >         neigh->dce_mode = 0;
> >
> >         rose_start_t0timer(neigh);
> 
> This will rearm the timer.  del_timer_sync() will not help.

Thank you for your time, but I don't think so.

> Please read the comment in front of del_timer_sync(), in kernel/time/timer.c

I wrote a kernel module to test whether del_timer_sync() could finish a timer handler
that use mod_timer() to rewind itself. The following is the result.

# insmod del_timer_sync.ko 
[  929.374405] my_timer will be create.
[  929.374738] the jiffies is :4295595572
[  930.411581] In my_timer_function
[  930.411956] the jiffies is 4295596609
[  935.466643] In my_timer_function
[  935.467505] the jiffies is 4295601665
[  940.586538] In my_timer_function
[  940.586916] the jiffies is 4295606784
[  945.706579] In my_timer_function
[  945.706885] the jiffies is 4295611904

# 
# rmmod del_timer_sync.ko
[  948.507692] the del_timer_sync is :1
[  948.507692] 
# 
# 

The result of the experiment shows that the timer handler could
be killed after we execute del_timer_sync(), even if the timer could
rewind itself.

Best regards,
Duoming Zhou