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Message-ID: <20161213044942.GD1305@madcap2.tricolour.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:49:42 -0500
From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-audit@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, dvyukov@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] audit: use proper refcount locking on audit_sock
On 2016-12-12 12:10, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com> wrote:
> > Resetting audit_sock appears to be racy.
> >
> > audit_sock was being copied and dereferenced without using a refcount on
> > the source sock.
> >
> > Bump the refcount on the underlying sock when we store a refrence in
> > audit_sock and release it when we reset audit_sock. audit_sock
> > modification needs the audit_cmd_mutex.
> >
> > See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/26/232
> >
> > Thanks to Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> and Cong Wang
> > <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> on ideas how to fix it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
> > ---
> > There has been a lot of change in the audit code that is about to go
> > upstream to address audit queue issues. This patch is based on the
> > source tree: git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit#next
> > ---
> > kernel/audit.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> This is coming in pretty late for the v4.10 merge window, much later
> than I would usually take things, but this is arguably important, and
> (at first glance) relatively low risk - what testing have you done on
> this?
At this point, compile and boot, and I'm able to compile and run the
supplied test code without any issues.
> > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> > index f20eee0..439f7f3 100644
> > --- a/kernel/audit.c
> > +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> > @@ -452,7 +452,9 @@ static void auditd_reset(void)
> > struct sk_buff *skb;
> >
> > /* break the connection */
> > + sock_put(audit_sock);
> > audit_pid = 0;
> > + audit_nlk_portid = 0;
> > audit_sock = NULL;
> >
> > /* flush all of the retry queue to the hold queue */
> > @@ -478,6 +480,12 @@ static int kauditd_send_unicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
> > if (rc >= 0) {
> > consume_skb(skb);
> > rc = 0;
> > + } else {
> > + if (rc & (-ENOMEM|-EPERM|-ECONNREFUSED)) {
> > + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > + auditd_reset();
> > + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > + }
> > }
> >
> > return rc;
> > @@ -579,7 +587,9 @@ static int kauditd_thread(void *dummy)
> >
> > auditd = 0;
> > if (AUDITD_BAD(rc, reschedule)) {
> > + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > auditd_reset();
> > + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > reschedule = 0;
> > }
> > } else
> > @@ -594,7 +604,9 @@ static int kauditd_thread(void *dummy)
> > auditd = 0;
> > if (AUDITD_BAD(rc, reschedule)) {
> > kauditd_hold_skb(skb);
> > + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > auditd_reset();
> > + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > reschedule = 0;
> > } else
> > /* temporary problem (we hope), queue
> > @@ -623,7 +635,9 @@ quick_loop:
> > if (rc) {
> > auditd = 0;
> > if (AUDITD_BAD(rc, reschedule)) {
> > + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > auditd_reset();
> > + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > reschedule = 0;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -1004,17 +1018,22 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
> > return -EACCES;
> > }
> > if (audit_pid && new_pid &&
> > - audit_replace(requesting_pid) != -ECONNREFUSED) {
> > + (audit_replace(requesting_pid) & (-ECONNREFUSED|-EPERM|-ENOMEM))) {
> > audit_log_config_change("audit_pid", new_pid, audit_pid, 0);
> > return -EEXIST;
> > }
> > if (audit_enabled != AUDIT_OFF)
> > audit_log_config_change("audit_pid", new_pid, audit_pid, 1);
> > - audit_pid = new_pid;
> > - audit_nlk_portid = NETLINK_CB(skb).portid;
> > - audit_sock = skb->sk;
> > - if (!new_pid)
> > + if (new_pid) {
> > + if (audit_sock)
> > + sock_put(audit_sock);
> > + audit_pid = new_pid;
> > + audit_nlk_portid = NETLINK_CB(skb).portid;
> > + sock_hold(skb->sk);
> > + audit_sock = skb->sk;
> > + } else {
> > auditd_reset();
> > + }
> > wake_up_interruptible(&kauditd_wait);
> > }
> > if (s.mask & AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT) {
> > @@ -1283,8 +1302,11 @@ static void __net_exit audit_net_exit(struct net *net)
> > {
> > struct audit_net *aunet = net_generic(net, audit_net_id);
> > struct sock *sock = aunet->nlsk;
> > - if (sock == audit_sock)
> > + if (sock == audit_sock) {
> > + mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > auditd_reset();
> > + mutex_unlock(&audit_cmd_mutex);
> > + }
> >
> > RCU_INIT_POINTER(aunet->nlsk, NULL);
> > synchronize_net();
> > --
> > 1.7.1
> >
> > --
> > Linux-audit mailing list
> > Linux-audit@...hat.com
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
>
>
>
> --
> paul moore
> www.paul-moore.com
- RGB
--
Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
Kernel Security Engineering, Base Operating Systems, Red Hat
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