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Message-ID: <5e3716d1-379a-a052-2ecf-8df497efafef@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 17:19:47 +0800
From: Baokun Li <libaokun@...weicloud.com>
To: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>, netfs@...ts.linux.dev,
 dhowells@...hat.com, jlayton@...nel.org
Cc: hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com, zhujia.zj@...edance.com,
 linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yangerkun@...wei.com, houtao1@...wei.com,
 yukuai3@...wei.com, wozizhi@...wei.com, Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>,
 libaokun@...weicloud.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in
 cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd()

On 2024/5/20 17:10, Jingbo Xu wrote:
>
> On 5/20/24 4:38 PM, Baokun Li wrote:
>> Hi Jingbo,
>>
>> Thanks for your review!
>>
>> On 2024/5/20 15:24, Jingbo Xu wrote:
>>> On 5/15/24 4:45 PM, libaokun@...weicloud.com wrote:
>>>> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
>>>>
>>>> We got the following issue in a fuzz test of randomly issuing the
>>>> restore
>>>> command:
>>>>
>>>> ==================================================================
>>>> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
>>>> Write of size 4 at addr ffff888109164a80 by task ondemand-04-dae/4962
>>>>
>>>> CPU: 11 PID: 4962 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-dirty #542
>>>> Call Trace:
>>>>    kasan_report+0x94/0xc0
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
>>>>    vfs_read+0x169/0xb50
>>>>    ksys_read+0xf5/0x1e0
>>>>
>>>> Allocated by task 626:
>>>>    __kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x24d/0x690
>>>>    cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
>>>>    cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
>>>>    cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
>>>>    cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
>>>>    fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
>>>>    [...]
>>>>
>>>> Freed by task 626:
>>>>    kfree+0xf1/0x2c0
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x568/0x690
>>>>    cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
>>>>    cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
>>>>    cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
>>>>    cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
>>>>    fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
>>>>    [...]
>>>> ==================================================================
>>>>
>>>> Following is the process that triggers the issue:
>>>>
>>>>        mount  |   daemon_thread1    |    daemon_thread2
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>    cachefiles_ondemand_init_object
>>>>     cachefiles_ondemand_send_req
>>>>      REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len)
>>>>      wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done)
>>>>
>>>>               cachefiles_daemon_read
>>>>                cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>                 REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>                 cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd
>>>>                 copy_to_user(_buffer, msg, n)
>>>>               process_open_req(REQ_A)
>>>>                                     ------ restore ------
>>>>                                     cachefiles_ondemand_restore
>>>>                                     xas_for_each(&xas, req, ULONG_MAX)
>>>>                                      xas_set_mark(&xas,
>>>> CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
>>>>
>>>>                                     cachefiles_daemon_read
>>>>                                      cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
>>>>                                       REQ_A =
>>>> cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
>>>>
>>>>                write(devfd, ("copen %u,%llu", msg->msg_id, size));
>>>>                cachefiles_ondemand_copen
>>>>                 xa_erase(&cache->reqs, id)
>>>>                 complete(&REQ_A->done)
>>>>      kfree(REQ_A)
>>>>                                       cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd(REQ_A)
>>>>                                        fd = get_unused_fd_flags
>>>>                                        file = anon_inode_getfile
>>>>                                        fd_install(fd, file)
>>>>                                        load = (void *)REQ_A->msg.data;
>>>>                                        load->fd = fd;
>>>>                                        // load UAF !!!
>>>>
>>>> This issue is caused by issuing a restore command when the daemon is
>>>> still
>>>> alive, which results in a request being processed multiple times thus
>>>> triggering a UAF. So to avoid this problem, add an additional reference
>>>> count to cachefiles_req, which is held while waiting and reading, and
>>>> then
>>>> released when the waiting and reading is over.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Note that since there is only one reference count for waiting, we
>>>> need to
>>>> avoid the same request being completed multiple times, so we can only
>>>> complete the request if it is successfully removed from the xarray.
>>> Sorry the above description makes me confused.  As the same request may
>>> be got by different daemon threads multiple times, the introduced
>>> refcount mechanism can't protect it from being completed multiple times
>>> (which is expected).  The refcount only protects it from being freed
>>> multiple times.
>> The idea here is that because the wait only holds one reference count,
>> complete(&req->done) can only be called when the req has been
>> successfully removed from the xarry, otherwise the following UAF may
>> occur:
>
> "complete(&req->done) can only be called when the req has been
> successfully removed from the xarry ..."
>
> How this is done? since the following xarray_erase() following the first
> xarray_erase() will fail as the xarray slot referred by the same id has
> already been erased?
>
>
>>>> @@ -455,7 +459,7 @@ static int cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(struct
>>>> cachefiles_object *object,
>>>>        wake_up_all(&cache->daemon_pollwq);
>>>>        wait_for_completion(&req->done);
>>>>        ret = req->error;
>>>> -    kfree(req);
>>>> +    cachefiles_req_put(req);
>>>>        return ret;
>>>>    out:
>>>>        /* Reset the object to close state in error handling path.
>>> Don't we need to also convert "kfree(req)" to cachefiles_req_put(req)
>>> for the error path of cachefiles_ondemand_send_req()?
>>>
>>> ```
>>> out:
>>>      /* Reset the object to close state in error handling path.
>>>       * If error occurs after creating the anonymous fd,
>>>       * cachefiles_ondemand_fd_release() will set object to close.
>>>       */
>>>      if (opcode == CACHEFILES_OP_OPEN)
>>>          cachefiles_ondemand_set_object_close(object);
>>>      kfree(req);
>>>      return ret;
>>> ```
>> When "goto out;" is called in cachefiles_ondemand_send_req(),
>> it means that the req is unallocated/failed to be allocated/failed to
>> be inserted into the xarry, and therefore the req can only be accessed
>> by the current function, so there is no need to consider concurrency
>> and reference counting.
> Okay I understand. But this is indeed quite confusing. I see no cost of
> also converting to cachefiles_req_put(req).
>
>
Yes, kfree(req) converts to cachefiles_req_put(req) at no cost,
but may trigger a NULL pointer dereference in cachefiles_req_put(req)
if the req has not been initialised.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Baokun Li


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