Re: fs: use-after-free in path_lookupat

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 10:48:57 EST


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 06:33:18PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>>
>>>> Added more debug output.
>>>>
>>>> name_to_handle_at(r4, &(0x7f0000003000-0x6)="2e2f62757300",
>>>> &(0x7f0000003000-0xd)={0xc, 0x0, "cd21"}, &(0x7f0000002000)=0x0,
>>>> 0x1000)
>>>>
>>>> actually passes name="" because of the overlapping addresses. Flags
>>>> contain AT_EMPTY_PATH.
>>>
>>> Bloody hell... So you end up with name == (char *)&handle->handle_type + 3?
>>> Looks like it would be a lot more useful to dump the actual contents of
>>> those suckers right before the syscall...
>>>
>>> Anyway, that explains WTF is going on. The bug is in path_init() and
>>> it triggers when you pass something with dentry allocated by d_alloc_pseudo()
>>> as dfd, combined with empty pathname. You need to have the file closed
>>> by another thread, and have that another thread get out of closing syscall
>>> (close(), dup2(), etc.) before the caller of path_init() gets to
>>> complete_walk(). We need to make sure that this sucker gets DCACHE_RCUPDATE
>>> while it's still guaranteed to be pinned down. Could you try to reproduce
>>> with the patch below applied?
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
>>> index 6f7d96368734..70840281a41c 100644
>>> --- a/fs/namei.c
>>> +++ b/fs/namei.c
>>> @@ -2226,11 +2226,16 @@ static const char *path_init(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags)
>>> nd->path = f.file->f_path;
>>> if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
>>> rcu_read_lock();
>>> - nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
>>> - nd->seq = read_seqcount_begin(&nd->path.dentry->d_seq);
>>> + if (unlikely(!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_RCUACCESS))) {
>>> + spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
>>> + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
>>> + spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
>>> + }
>>> + nd->inode = dentry->d_inode;
>>> + nd->seq = read_seqcount_begin(&dentry->d_seq);
>>> } else {
>>> path_get(&nd->path);
>>> - nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
>>> + nd->inode = dentry->d_inode;
>>> }
>>> fdput(f);
>>> return s;
>>
>>
>> Al, please send this patch officially. I am running with it since then
>> and have not seen the crashes, nor any other issues that look related.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
> Al, ping. Please send this patch.


Al, do you want me to mail the patch?
I won't be able to write a super detailed description, but I can do
some format patch.