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Message-ID: <20230706081651.GF2833176@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jul 2023 10:16:51 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tj@...nel.org, lujialin4@...wei.com,
        lizefan.x@...edance.com, hannes@...xchg.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        ebiggers@...nel.org, oleg@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
        vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com, mgorman@...e.de,
        bristot@...hat.com, vschneid@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] sched/psi: use kernfs polling functions for PSI
 trigger polling

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 05:56:12PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Destroying psi trigger in cgroup_file_release causes UAF issues when
> a cgroup is removed from under a polling process. This is happening
> because cgroup removal causes a call to cgroup_file_release while the
> actual file is still alive. Destroying the trigger at this point would
> also destroy its waitqueue head and if there is still a polling process
> on that file accessing the waitqueue, it will step on the freed pointer:
> 
> do_select
>   vfs_poll
>                            do_rmdir
>                              cgroup_rmdir
>                                kernfs_drain_open_files
>                                  cgroup_file_release
>                                    cgroup_pressure_release
>                                      psi_trigger_destroy
>                                        wake_up_pollfree(&t->event_wait)
> // vfs_poll is unblocked
>                                        synchronize_rcu
>                                        kfree(t)
>   poll_freewait -> UAF access to the trigger's waitqueue head
> 
> Patch [1] fixed this issue for epoll() case using wake_up_pollfree(),
> however the same issue exists for synchronous poll() case.
> The root cause of this issue is that the lifecycles of the psi trigger's
> waitqueue and of the file associated with the trigger are different. Fix
> this by using kernfs_generic_poll function when polling on cgroup-specific
> psi triggers. It internally uses kernfs_open_node->poll waitqueue head
> with its lifecycle tied to the file's lifecycle. This also renders the
> fix in [1] obsolete, so revert it.
> 
> [1] commit c2dbe32d5db5 ("sched/psi: Fix use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue()")
> 
> Fixes: 0e94682b73bf ("psi: introduce psi monitor")
> Reported-by: Lu Jialin <lujialin4@...wei.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613062306.101831-1-lujialin4@huawei.com/
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>

Thanks, I'll stuff it in sched/urgent after -rc1.

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