[PATCH] ima: fix deadlock within "ima_match_policy" function.

liqiong liqiong at nfschina.com
Tue Aug 24 08:57:47 UTC 2021


When "ima_match_policy" is looping while "ima_update_policy" changs
the variable "ima_rules", then "ima_match_policy" may can't exit
loop, Finally cause RCU CPU Stall Warnings: "rcu_sched detected
stall on CPU ...".

The problem is limited to transitioning from the builtin policy to
the custom policy. Eg. At boot time, systemd-services are being
checked within "ima_match_policy", at the same time, the variable
"ima_rules" is changed by another service.

Signed-off-by: liqiong <liqiong at nfschina.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index fd5d46e511f1..e92b197bfd3c 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -662,12 +662,14 @@ int ima_match_policy(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *inode,
 {
 	struct ima_rule_entry *entry;
 	int action = 0, actmask = flags | (flags << 1);
+	struct list_head *ima_rules_tmp;
 
 	if (template_desc && !*template_desc)
 		*template_desc = ima_template_desc_current();
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, ima_rules, list) {
+	ima_rules_tmp = rcu_dereference(ima_rules);
+	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, ima_rules_tmp, list) {
 
 		if (!(entry->action & actmask))
 			continue;
@@ -919,8 +921,8 @@ void ima_update_policy(void)
 
 	if (ima_rules != policy) {
 		ima_policy_flag = 0;
-		ima_rules = policy;
 
+		rcu_assign_pointer(ima_rules, policy);
 		/*
 		 * IMA architecture specific policy rules are specified
 		 * as strings and converted to an array of ima_entry_rules
@@ -1649,9 +1651,11 @@ void *ima_policy_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 {
 	loff_t l = *pos;
 	struct ima_rule_entry *entry;
+	struct list_head *ima_rules_tmp;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, ima_rules, list) {
+	ima_rules_tmp = rcu_dereference(ima_rules);
+	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, ima_rules_tmp, list) {
 		if (!l--) {
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 			return entry;
@@ -1670,7 +1674,8 @@ void *ima_policy_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	(*pos)++;
 
-	return (&entry->list == ima_rules) ? NULL : entry;
+	return (&entry->list == &ima_default_rules ||
+		&entry->list == &ima_policy_rules) ? NULL : entry;
 }
 
 void ima_policy_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
@@ -1872,6 +1877,7 @@ bool ima_appraise_signature(enum kernel_read_file_id id)
 	struct ima_rule_entry *entry;
 	bool found = false;
 	enum ima_hooks func;
+	struct list_head *ima_rules_tmp;
 
 	if (id >= READING_MAX_ID)
 		return false;
@@ -1879,7 +1885,8 @@ bool ima_appraise_signature(enum kernel_read_file_id id)
 	func = read_idmap[id] ?: FILE_CHECK;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, ima_rules, list) {
+	ima_rules_tmp = rcu_dereference(ima_rules);
+	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, ima_rules_tmp, list) {
 		if (entry->action != APPRAISE)
 			continue;
 
-- 
2.11.0



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