[PATCH v3] ima: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ima_file_hash
Mimi Zohar
zohar at linux.ibm.com
Wed Sep 16 22:51:49 UTC 2020
On Wed, 2020-09-16 at 18:02 +0000, KP Singh wrote:
> From: KP Singh <kpsingh at google.com>
>
> ima_file_hash can be called when there is no iint->ima_hash available
> even though the inode exists in the integrity cache. It is fairly
> common for a file to not have a hash. (e.g. an mknodat, prior to the
> file being closed).
>
> Another example where this can happen (suggested by Jann Horn):
>
> Process A does:
>
> while(1) {
> unlink("/tmp/imafoo");
> fd = open("/tmp/imafoo", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0700);
> if (fd == -1) {
> perror("open");
> continue;
> }
> write(fd, "A", 1);
> close(fd);
> }
>
> and Process B does:
>
> while (1) {
> int fd = open("/tmp/imafoo", O_RDONLY);
> if (fd == -1)
> continue;
> char *mapping = mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> if (mapping != MAP_FAILED)
> munmap(mapping, 0x1000);
> close(fd);
> }
>
> Due to the race to get the iint->mutex between ima_file_hash and
> process_measurement iint->ima_hash could still be NULL.
>
> Fixes: 6beea7afcc72 ("ima: add the ability to query the cached hash of a given file")
> Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh at google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Florent Revest <revest at chromium.org>
Thanks, the patch is queued in next-integrity-testing.
Mimi
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