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authorVarad Gautam2021-05-22 17:41:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2021-05-22 15:09:07 -1000
commita11ddb37bf367e6b5239b95ca759e5389bb46048 (patch)
treeb3e0ac6e0531386ab16bfa434837a8d6ce708d0f /ipc/sem.c
parentf10628d2f613195132532e0fbda439eeed8d12a2 (diff)
ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry
do_mq_timedreceive calls wq_sleep with a stack local address. The sender (do_mq_timedsend) uses this address to later call pipelined_send. This leads to a very hard to trigger race where a do_mq_timedreceive call might return and leave do_mq_timedsend to rely on an invalid address, causing the following crash: RIP: 0010:wake_q_add_safe+0x13/0x60 Call Trace: __x64_sys_mq_timedsend+0x2a9/0x490 do_syscall_64+0x80/0x680 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 RIP: 0033:0x7f5928e40343 The race occurs as: 1. do_mq_timedreceive calls wq_sleep with the address of `struct ext_wait_queue` on function stack (aliased as `ewq_addr` here) - it holds a valid `struct ext_wait_queue *` as long as the stack has not been overwritten. 2. `ewq_addr` gets added to info->e_wait_q[RECV].list in wq_add, and do_mq_timedsend receives it via wq_get_first_waiter(info, RECV) to call __pipelined_op. 3. Sender calls __pipelined_op::smp_store_release(&this->state, STATE_READY). Here is where the race window begins. (`this` is `ewq_addr`.) 4. If the receiver wakes up now in do_mq_timedreceive::wq_sleep, it will see `state == STATE_READY` and break. 5. do_mq_timedreceive returns, and `ewq_addr` is no longer guaranteed to be a `struct ext_wait_queue *` since it was on do_mq_timedreceive's stack. (Although the address may not get overwritten until another function happens to touch it, which means it can persist around for an indefinite time.) 6. do_mq_timedsend::__pipelined_op() still believes `ewq_addr` is a `struct ext_wait_queue *`, and uses it to find a task_struct to pass to the wake_q_add_safe call. In the lucky case where nothing has overwritten `ewq_addr` yet, `ewq_addr->task` is the right task_struct. In the unlucky case, __pipelined_op::wake_q_add_safe gets handed a bogus address as the receiver's task_struct causing the crash. do_mq_timedsend::__pipelined_op() should not dereference `this` after setting STATE_READY, as the receiver counterpart is now free to return. Change __pipelined_op to call wake_q_add_safe on the receiver's task_struct returned by get_task_struct, instead of dereferencing `this` which sits on the receiver's stack. As Manfred pointed out, the race potentially also exists in ipc/msg.c::expunge_all and ipc/sem.c::wake_up_sem_queue_prepare. Fix those in the same way. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510102950.12551-1-varad.gautam@suse.com Fixes: c5b2cbdbdac563 ("ipc/mqueue.c: update/document memory barriers") Fixes: 8116b54e7e23ef ("ipc/sem.c: document and update memory barriers") Fixes: 0d97a82ba830d8 ("ipc/msg.c: update and document memory barriers") Signed-off-by: Varad Gautam <varad.gautam@suse.com> Reported-by: Matthias von Faber <matthias.vonfaber@aox-tech.de> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/sem.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/sem.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index e0ec239680cb..bf534c74293e 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -784,12 +784,14 @@ would_block:
static inline void wake_up_sem_queue_prepare(struct sem_queue *q, int error,
struct wake_q_head *wake_q)
{
- get_task_struct(q->sleeper);
+ struct task_struct *sleeper;
+
+ sleeper = get_task_struct(q->sleeper);
/* see SEM_BARRIER_2 for purpose/pairing */
smp_store_release(&q->status, error);
- wake_q_add_safe(wake_q, q->sleeper);
+ wake_q_add_safe(wake_q, sleeper);
}
static void unlink_queue(struct sem_array *sma, struct sem_queue *q)