Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

[Xiaochen Shen]

Hi Sasha,

The backporting for v4.14.x stable tree needs some manual tweaking due to
difference code bases:
1. x86/resctrl rename/re-arrange in v5.0 upstream kernel.
2. Code re-arrange in upstream commit 17eafd076291 ("x86/intel_rdt: Split
resource group removal in two").

The backporting for v4.19.x stable tree needs some manual tweaking due to
difference code bases: x86/resctrl rename/re-arrange in v5.0 upstream
kernel.

I will work on the backporting once this patch is merged into upstream.

Thank you.


On 1/9/2020 22:36, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
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> This commit has been processed because it contains a "Fixes:" tag,
> fixing commit: f3cbeacaa06e ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support").
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Best regards,
Xiaochen

[tip: x86/urgent] x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

[tip-bot2 for Xiaochen Shen]

The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     074fadee59ee7a9d2b216e9854bd4efb5dad679f
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/074fadee59ee7a9d2b216e9854bd4efb5dad679f
Author:        Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:28:04 +08:00
Committer:     Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
CommitterDate: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:56:11 +01:00

x86/resctrl: Fix use-after-free due to inaccurate refcount of rdtgroup

There is a race condition in the following scenario which results in an
use-after-free issue when reading a monitoring file and deleting the
parent ctrl_mon group concurrently:

Thread 1 calls atomic_inc() to take refcount of rdtgrp and then calls
kernfs_break_active_protection() to drop the active reference of kernfs
node in rdtgroup_kn_lock_live().

In Thread 2, kernfs_remove() is a blocking routine. It waits on all sub
kernfs nodes to drop the active reference when removing all subtree
kernfs nodes recursively. Thread 2 could block on kernfs_remove() until
Thread 1 calls kernfs_break_active_protection(). Only after
kernfs_remove() completes the refcount of rdtgrp could be trusted.

Before Thread 1 calls atomic_inc() and kernfs_break_active_protection(),
Thread 2 could call kfree() when the refcount of rdtgrp (sentry) is 0
instead of 1 due to the race.

In Thread 1, in rdtgroup_kn_unlock(), referring to earlier rdtgrp memory
(rdtgrp->waitcount) which was already freed in Thread 2 results in
use-after-free issue.

Thread 1 (rdtgroup_mondata_show)  Thread 2 (rdtgroup_rmdir)
--------------------------------  -------------------------
rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
  /*
   * kn active protection until
   * kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
   */
  rdtgrp = kernfs_to_rdtgroup(kn)
                                  rdtgroup_kn_lock_live
                                    atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
                                    mutex_lock
                                  rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl
                                    free_all_child_rdtgrp
                                      /*
                                       * sentry->waitcount should be 1
                                       * but is 0 now due to the race.
                                       */
                                      kfree(sentry)*[1]
  /*
   * Only after kernfs_remove()
   * completes, the refcount of
   * rdtgrp could be trusted.
   */
  atomic_inc(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
  /* kn->active-- */
  kernfs_break_active_protection(kn)
                                    rdtgroup_ctrl_remove
                                      rdtgrp->flags = RDT_DELETED
                                      /*
                                       * Blocking routine, wait for
                                       * all sub kernfs nodes to drop
                                       * active reference in
                                       * kernfs_break_active_protection.
                                       */
                                      kernfs_remove(rdtgrp->kn)
                                  rdtgroup_kn_unlock
                                    mutex_unlock
                                    atomic_dec_and_test(
                                                &rdtgrp->waitcount)
                                    && (flags & RDT_DELETED)
                                      kernfs_unbreak_active_protection(kn)
                                      kfree(rdtgrp)
  mutex_lock
mon_event_read
rdtgroup_kn_unlock
  mutex_unlock
  /*
   * Use-after-free: refer to earlier rdtgrp
   * memory which was freed in [1].
   */
  atomic_dec_and_test(&rdtgrp->waitcount)
  && (flags & RDT_DELETED)
    /* kn->active++ */
    kernfs_unbreak_active_protection(kn)
    kfree(rdtgrp)

Fix it by moving free_all_child_rdtgrp() to after kernfs_remove() in
rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl() to ensure it has the accurate refcount of rdtgrp.

Fixes: f3cbeacaa06e ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support")
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578500886-21771-3-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index 23904ab..caab397 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -2960,13 +2960,13 @@ static int rdtgroup_rmdir_ctrl(struct kernfs_node *kn, struct rdtgroup *rdtgrp,
 	closid_free(rdtgrp->closid);
 	free_rmid(rdtgrp->mon.rmid);
 
+	rdtgroup_ctrl_remove(kn, rdtgrp);
+
 	/*
 	 * Free all the child monitor group rmids.
 	 */
 	free_all_child_rdtgrp(rdtgrp);
 
-	rdtgroup_ctrl_remove(kn, rdtgrp);
-
 	return 0;
 }