[PATCH] selinux: use GFP_ATOMIC in convert_context()

From: GONG, Ruiqi
Date: Tue Oct 18 2022 - 08:01:41 EST


The following BUG_ON was triggered on a hardware environment:

SELinux: Converting 162 SID table entries...
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at __might_sleep_rtos+0x60/0x74 0x0
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 5943, name: tar
CPU: 7 PID: 5943 Comm: tar Tainted: P O 5.10.0 #1
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c8
show_stack+0x18/0x28
dump_stack+0xe8/0x15c
___might_sleep_rtos+0x168/0x17c
__might_sleep_rtos+0x60/0x74
__kmalloc_track_caller+0xa0/0x7dc
kstrdup+0x54/0xac
convert_context+0x48/0x2e4
sidtab_context_to_sid+0x1c4/0x36c
security_context_to_sid_core+0x168/0x238
security_context_to_sid_default+0x14/0x24
inode_doinit_use_xattr+0x164/0x1e4
inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x1c0/0x488
selinux_d_instantiate+0x20/0x34
security_d_instantiate+0x70/0xbc
d_splice_alias+0x4c/0x3c0
ext4_lookup+0x1d8/0x200 [ext4]
__lookup_slow+0x12c/0x1e4
walk_component+0x100/0x200
path_lookupat+0x88/0x118
filename_lookup+0x98/0x130
user_path_at_empty+0x48/0x60
vfs_statx+0x84/0x140
vfs_fstatat+0x20/0x30
__se_sys_newfstatat+0x30/0x74
__arm64_sys_newfstatat+0x1c/0x2c
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x100/0x184
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x2c
el0_svc+0x20/0x34
el0_sync_handler+0x80/0x17c
el0_sync+0x13c/0x140
SELinux: Context system_u:object_r:pssp_rsyslog_log_t:s0:c0 is not valid (left unmapped).

It was found that convert_context() (hooked by convert->func) might
sleep in a critial section of spin_lock_irqsave in
sidtab_context_to_sid(). Fix this problem by changing the memory
allocation in convert_context() from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC.

Reported-by: Tan Ninghao <tanninghao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: ee1a84fdfeed ("selinux: overhaul sidtab to fix bug and improve performance")
Signed-off-by: GONG, Ruiqi <gongruiqi1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/services.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index fe5fcf571c56..523876bb7df3 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ static int convert_context(struct context *oldc, struct context *newc, void *p)
args = p;

if (oldc->str) {
- s = kstrdup(oldc->str, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = kstrdup(oldc->str, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!s)
return -ENOMEM;

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2.25.1