From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
axboe@kernel.dk, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
mingo@redhat.com, jack@suse.cz, ming.lei@redhat.com,
nstange@suse.de
Cc: mhocko@suse.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
syzbot+603294af2d01acfdd6da@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] blktrace: fix debugfs use after free
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 09:29:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a84844d-ef87-c609-9963-4dea17bc506c@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75aa4cff-1b90-ebd4-17a4-c1cb6d390b30@acm.org>
On 4/5/20 11:25 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-04-05 18:27, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> The thing I can't figure out from reading the change log is
>>
>> 1) what the root cause of the problem is, and
>> 2) how this patch fixes it?
>
> I think that the root cause is that do_blk_trace_setup() uses
> debugfs_lookup() and that debugfs_lookup() may return a pointer
> associated with a previous incarnation of the block device.
> Additionally, I think the following changes fix that problem by using
> q->debugfs_dir in the blktrace code instead of debugfs_lookup():
Yep, I gathered that from reading the patch, was just hoping for a commit log
that makes it clear.
> [ ... ]
> --- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,6 @@ static void blk_trace_free(struct blk_trace *bt)
> debugfs_remove(bt->msg_file);
> debugfs_remove(bt->dropped_file);
> relay_close(bt->rchan);
> - debugfs_remove(bt->dir);
> free_percpu(bt->sequence);
> free_percpu(bt->msg_data);
> kfree(bt);
> [ ... ]
> @@ -509,21 +510,19 @@ static int do_blk_trace_setup(struct request_queue
> *q, char *name, dev_t dev,
>
> ret = -ENOENT;
>
> - dir = debugfs_lookup(buts->name, blk_debugfs_root);
> - if (!dir)
> - bt->dir = dir = debugfs_create_dir(buts->name, blk_debugfs_root);
> -
> bt->dev = dev;
> atomic_set(&bt->dropped, 0);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bt->running_list);
>
> ret = -EIO;
> - bt->dropped_file = debugfs_create_file("dropped", 0444, dir, bt,
> + bt->dropped_file = debugfs_create_file("dropped", 0444,
> + q->debugfs_dir, bt,
> &blk_dropped_fops);
One thing I'm not sure about, the block_trace *bt still points to a dentry that
could get torn down via debugfs_remove_recursive when the queue is released, right,
but could later be sent to blk_trace_free again? And yet this does seem to fix the
use after free in my testing, so I must be missing something.
Thanks,
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-01 23:59 [RFC 0/3] block: address blktrace use-after-free Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 0:00 ` [RFC 1/3] block: move main block debugfs initialization to its own file Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-05 3:12 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-04-06 14:23 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 0:00 ` [RFC 2/3] blktrace: fix debugfs use after free Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 1:57 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-04-02 16:14 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-05 3:39 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-04-06 1:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-04-06 4:25 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-04-06 9:18 ` Nicolai Stange
2020-04-06 15:19 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-07 8:15 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-06 14:29 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2020-04-07 8:09 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-06 15:14 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 0:00 ` [RFC 3/3] block: avoid deferral of blk_release_queue() work Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 3:39 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-04-02 14:49 ` Nicolai Stange
2020-04-06 9:11 ` Nicolai Stange
2020-04-09 18:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-02 7:44 ` [RFC 0/3] block: address blktrace use-after-free Greg KH
2020-04-03 8:19 ` Ming Lei
2020-04-03 14:06 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-03 14:13 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-04-03 19:49 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-07 2:47 ` yukuai (C)
2020-04-07 19:00 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-04-09 20:59 ` Luis Chamberlain
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