umh: fix race condition
authorAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:23:10 +0000 (10:23 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 7 Jun 2018 20:56:28 +0000 (16:56 -0400)
kasan reported use-after-free:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x2d3/0x310 kernel/umh.c:195
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8801d9202370 by task kworker/u4:2/50
Workqueue: events_unbound call_usermodehelper_exec_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x1b9/0x294 lib/dump_stack.c:113
 print_address_description+0x6c/0x20b mm/kasan/report.c:256
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:354 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold.7+0x242/0x2fe mm/kasan/report.c:412
 __asan_report_store4_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:437
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x2d3/0x310 kernel/umh.c:195
 process_one_work+0xc1e/0x1b50 kernel/workqueue.c:2145
 worker_thread+0x1cc/0x1440 kernel/workqueue.c:2279
 kthread+0x345/0x410 kernel/kthread.c:240
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:412

The reason is that 'sub_info' cannot be accessed out of parent task
context, since it will be freed by the child.
Instead remember the pid in the child task.

Fixes: 449325b52b7a ("umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper")
Reported-by: syzbot+2c73319c406f1987d156@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
kernel/umh.c

index 30db93f..c449858 100644 (file)
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static int call_usermodehelper_exec_async(void *data)
 
        commit_creds(new);
 
+       sub_info->pid = task_pid_nr(current);
        if (sub_info->file)
                retval = do_execve_file(sub_info->file,
                                        sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
@@ -191,8 +192,6 @@ static void call_usermodehelper_exec_work(struct work_struct *work)
                if (pid < 0) {
                        sub_info->retval = pid;
                        umh_complete(sub_info);
-               } else {
-                       sub_info->pid = pid;
                }
        }
 }