[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 016/138] smackfs: Fix use-after-free in netlbl_catmap_walk()

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Mon Nov 8 17:44:42 UTC 2021


From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta at linux.intel.com>

[ Upstream commit 0817534ff9ea809fac1322c5c8c574be8483ea57 ]

Syzkaller reported use-after-free bug as described in [1]. The bug is
triggered when smk_set_cipso() tries to free stale category bitmaps
while there are concurrent reader(s) using the same bitmaps.

Wait for RCU grace period to finish before freeing the category bitmaps
in smk_set_cipso(). This makes sure that there are no more readers using
the stale bitmaps and freeing them should be safe.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/000000000000a814c505ca657a4e@google.com/

Reported-by: syzbot+3f91de0b813cc3d19a80 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 security/smack/smackfs.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
index 3a75d2a8f5178..9d853c0e55b84 100644
--- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
+++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
@@ -831,6 +831,7 @@ static int smk_open_cipso(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 static ssize_t smk_set_cipso(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 				size_t count, loff_t *ppos, int format)
 {
+	struct netlbl_lsm_catmap *old_cat;
 	struct smack_known *skp;
 	struct netlbl_lsm_secattr ncats;
 	char mapcatset[SMK_CIPSOLEN];
@@ -920,9 +921,11 @@ static ssize_t smk_set_cipso(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 
 	rc = smk_netlbl_mls(maplevel, mapcatset, &ncats, SMK_CIPSOLEN);
 	if (rc >= 0) {
-		netlbl_catmap_free(skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.cat);
+		old_cat = skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.cat;
 		skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.cat = ncats.attr.mls.cat;
 		skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.lvl = ncats.attr.mls.lvl;
+		synchronize_rcu();
+		netlbl_catmap_free(old_cat);
 		rc = count;
 		/*
 		 * This mapping may have been cached, so clear the cache.
-- 
2.33.0



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