netdev - Re: KASAN: invalid-free in tomoyo_realpath_from

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Date:   Tue, 28 May 2019 16:38:50 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     syzbot <syzbot+9742b1c6c7aedf18beda@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc:     jmorris@...ei.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        serge@...lyn.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        takedakn@...data.co.jp
Subject: Re: KASAN: invalid-free in tomoyo_realpath_from_path

Well, I don't think this is a TOMOYO's problem.

On 2019/05/28 14:48, syzbot wrote:
> CPU: 1 PID: 11697 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 5.2.0-rc1+ #2
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
(...snipped...)
>  kfree+0xcf/0x220 mm/slab.c:3755
>  tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x1de/0x7a0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:319
(...snipped...)
> Allocated by task 11696:
(...snipped...)
>  kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:552 [inline]
>  tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xcd/0x7a0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:277
(...snipped...)
> 
> Freed by task 11696:
(...snipped...)
>  kfree+0xcf/0x220 mm/slab.c:3755
>  tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x1de/0x7a0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:319

Since the "buf" variable is a local variable, it cannot be shared between
two threads. Since "buf" is assigned as

  buf = kmalloc(buf_len, GFP_NOFS);

and nobody else is reassigning "buf",

  kfree(buf);

can't become an invalid free.

Let's wait for a reproducer...