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From: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
To: KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ima_file_hash
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:41:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ab256148e8ad5f9882e888dac809bc72cd3fe66.camel@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200916120548.364892-1-kpsingh@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>

On Wed, 2020-09-16 at 12:05 +0000, KP Singh wrote:
> From: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
> 
> ima_file_hash can be called when there is no iint->ima_hash available
> even though the inode exists in the integrity cache.
> 
> An example where this can happen (suggested by Jann Horn):
> 
> Process A does:
> 
> 	while(1) {
> 		unlink("/tmp/imafoo");
> 		fd = open("/tmp/imafoo", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0700);
> 		if (fd == -1) {
> 			perror("open");
> 			continue;
> 		}
> 		write(fd, "A", 1);
> 		close(fd);
> 	}
> 
> and Process B does:
> 
> 	while (1) {
> 		int fd = open("/tmp/imafoo", O_RDONLY);
> 		if (fd == -1)
> 			continue;
>     		char *mapping = mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
> 			 	     MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> 		if (mapping != MAP_FAILED)
> 			munmap(mapping, 0x1000);
> 		close(fd);
>   	}
> 
> Due to the race to get the iint->mutex between ima_file_hash and
> process_measurement iint->ima_hash could still be NULL.
> 
> Fixes: 6beea7afcc72 ("ima: add the ability to query the cached hash
> of a given file")
> Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
> ---
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> index 8a91711ca79b..4c86cd4eece0 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c
> @@ -531,6 +531,16 @@ int ima_file_hash(struct file *file, char *buf,
> size_t buf_size)
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&iint->mutex);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * ima_file_hash can be called when ima_collect_measurement has
> still
> +	 * not been called, we might not always have a hash.
> +	 */
> +	if (!iint->ima_hash) {
> +		mutex_unlock(&iint->mutex);
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (buf) {
>  		size_t copied_size;
>  


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16 12:05 [PATCH] ima: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ima_file_hash KP Singh
2020-09-16 12:41 ` Florent Revest [this message]
2020-09-16 12:47   ` KP Singh

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