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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:23:10 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <daniel@...earbox.net>, <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] umh: fix race condition

kasan reported use-after-free:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x2d3/0x310 kernel/umh.c:195
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8801d9202370 by task kworker/u4:2/50
Workqueue: events_unbound call_usermodehelper_exec_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1b9/0x294 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 print_address_description+0x6c/0x20b mm/kasan/report.c:256
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:354 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold.7+0x242/0x2fe mm/kasan/report.c:412
 __asan_report_store4_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:437
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x2d3/0x310 kernel/umh.c:195
 process_one_work+0xc1e/0x1b50 kernel/workqueue.c:2145
 worker_thread+0x1cc/0x1440 kernel/workqueue.c:2279
 kthread+0x345/0x410 kernel/kthread.c:240
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:412

The reason is that 'sub_info' cannot be accessed out of parent task
context, since it will be freed by the child.
Instead remember the pid in the child task.

Fixes: 449325b52b7a ("umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper")
Reported-by: syzbot+2c73319c406f1987d156@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/umh.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c
index 30db93fd7e39..c449858946af 100644
--- a/kernel/umh.c
+++ b/kernel/umh.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static int call_usermodehelper_exec_async(void *data)
 
 	commit_creds(new);
 
+	sub_info->pid = task_pid_nr(current);
 	if (sub_info->file)
 		retval = do_execve_file(sub_info->file,
 					sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
@@ -191,8 +192,6 @@ static void call_usermodehelper_exec_work(struct work_struct *work)
 		if (pid < 0) {
 			sub_info->retval = pid;
 			umh_complete(sub_info);
-		} else {
-			sub_info->pid = pid;
 		}
 	}
 }
-- 
2.9.5