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Message-ID: <150ccdc2-48c7-40ac-b027-e8f92e2a0500@linux.dev>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 11:10:32 +0800
From: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, Stefan Roesch <shr@...kernel.io>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
zhouchengming@...edance.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/ksm: fix possible UAF of stable_node
On 2024/5/15 04:46, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.05.24 05:07, Chengming Zhou wrote:
>> The commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page
>> deduplication limit") introduced a possible failure case in the
>> stable_tree_insert(), where we may free the new allocated stable_node_dup
>> if we fail to prepare the missing chain node.
>>
>> Then that kfolio return and unlock with a freed stable_node set... And
>> any MM activities can come in to access kfolio->mapping, so UAF.
>>
>> Fix it by moving folio_set_stable_node() to the end after stable_node
>> is inserted successfully.
>>
>> Fixes: 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit")
>> Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
>> ---
>> mm/ksm.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
>> index e1034bf1c937..a8b76af5cf64 100644
>> --- a/mm/ksm.c
>> +++ b/mm/ksm.c
>> @@ -2153,7 +2153,6 @@ static struct ksm_stable_node *stable_tree_insert(struct folio *kfolio)
>> INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&stable_node_dup->hlist);
>> stable_node_dup->kpfn = kpfn;
>> - folio_set_stable_node(kfolio, stable_node_dup);
>> stable_node_dup->rmap_hlist_len = 0;
>> DO_NUMA(stable_node_dup->nid = nid);
>> if (!need_chain) {
>> @@ -2172,6 +2171,8 @@ static struct ksm_stable_node *stable_tree_insert(struct folio *kfolio)
>> stable_node_chain_add_dup(stable_node_dup, stable_node);
>> }
>> + folio_set_stable_node(kfolio, stable_node_dup);
>> +
>> return stable_node_dup;
>
> Looks correct to me.
>
> We might now link the node before the folio->mapping is set up. Do we care? Don't think so.
Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem, although it doesn't look very nice.
Another way to fix maybe "folio_set_stable_node(folio, NULL)" in the failure case,
which is safe since we have held the folio lock.
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>
Thanks.
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