From af8d3c7c001ae7df1ed2b2715f058113efc86187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 14:37:38 -0700 Subject: ppp: remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl The PPPIOCDETACH ioctl effectively tries to "close" the given ppp file before f_count has reached 0, which is fundamentally a bad idea. It does check 'f_count < 2', which excludes concurrent operations on the file since they would only be possible with a shared fd table, in which case each fdget() would take a file reference. However, it fails to account for the fact that even with 'f_count == 1' the file can still be linked into epoll instances. As reported by syzbot, this can trivially be used to cause a use-after-free. Yet, the only known user of PPPIOCDETACH is pppd versions older than ppp-2.4.2, which was released almost 15 years ago (November 2003). Also, PPPIOCDETACH apparently stopped working reliably at around the same time, when the f_count check was added to the kernel, e.g. see https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/31/83. Also, the current 'f_count < 2' check makes PPPIOCDETACH only work in single-threaded applications; it always fails if called from a multithreaded application. All pppd versions released in the last 15 years just close() the file descriptor instead. Therefore, instead of hacking around this bug by exporting epoll internals to modules, and probably missing other related bugs, just remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl and see if anyone actually notices. Leave a stub in place that prints a one-time warning and returns EINVAL. Reported-by: syzbot+16363c99d4134717c05b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault Tested-by: Guillaume Nault Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h index b19a9c249b15..784c2e3e572e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct pppol2tp_ioc_stats { #define PPPIOCGIDLE _IOR('t', 63, struct ppp_idle) /* get idle time */ #define PPPIOCNEWUNIT _IOWR('t', 62, int) /* create new ppp unit */ #define PPPIOCATTACH _IOW('t', 61, int) /* attach to ppp unit */ -#define PPPIOCDETACH _IOW('t', 60, int) /* detach from ppp unit/chan */ +#define PPPIOCDETACH _IOW('t', 60, int) /* obsolete, do not use */ #define PPPIOCSMRRU _IOW('t', 59, int) /* set multilink MRU */ #define PPPIOCCONNECT _IOW('t', 58, int) /* connect channel to unit */ #define PPPIOCDISCONN _IO('t', 57) /* disconnect channel */ -- cgit v1.2.3