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vfs: fix subtle use-after-free of pipe_inode_info 

The pipe code was trying (and failing) to be very careful about freeing
the pipe info only after the last access, with a pattern like:

        spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
        if (!--pipe->files) {
                inode->i_pipe = NULL;
                kill = 1;
        }
        spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
        __pipe_unlock(pipe);
        if (kill)
                free_pipe_info(pipe);

where the final freeing is done last.

HOWEVER.  The above is actually broken, because while the freeing is
done at the end, if we have two racing processes releasing the pipe
inode info, the one that *doesn't* free it will decrement the ->files
count, and unlock the inode i_lock, but then still use the
"pipe_inode_info" afterwards when it does the "__pipe_unlock(pipe)".

This is *very* hard to trigger in practice, since the race window is
very small, and adding debug options seems to just hide it by slowing
things down.

Simon originally reported this way back in July as an Oops in
kmem_cache_allocate due to a single bit corruption (due to the final
"spin_unlock(pipe->mutex.wait_lock)" incrementing a field in a different
allocation that had re-used the free'd pipe-info), it's taken this long
to figure out.

Since the 'pipe->files' accesses aren't even protected by the pipe lock
(we very much use the inode lock for that), the simple solution is to
just drop the pipe lock early.  And since there were two users of this
pattern, create a helper function for it.

Introduced commit ba5bb14733 ("pipe: take allocation and freeing of
pipe_inode_info out of ->i_mutex").

Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Reported-by: Ian Applegate <ia@cloudflare.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org   # v3.10+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2013-12-02 09:44:51 -08:00
parent e84a2a49b9
commit b0d8d22921
1 changed files with 19 additions and 20 deletions
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@ -726,11 +726,25 @@ pipe_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
return mask;
}
static void put_pipe_info(struct inode *inode, struct pipe_inode_info *pipe)
{
int kill = 0;
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
if (!--pipe->files) {
inode->i_pipe = NULL;
kill = 1;
}
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
if (kill)
free_pipe_info(pipe);
}
static int
pipe_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = inode->i_pipe;
int kill = 0;
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = file->private_data;
__pipe_lock(pipe);
if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ)
@ -743,17 +757,9 @@ pipe_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_writers, SIGIO, POLL_OUT);
}
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
if (!--pipe->files) {
inode->i_pipe = NULL;
kill = 1;
}
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
__pipe_unlock(pipe);
if (kill)
free_pipe_info(pipe);
put_pipe_info(inode, pipe);
return 0;
}
@ -1014,7 +1020,6 @@ static int fifo_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
bool is_pipe = inode->i_sb->s_magic == PIPEFS_MAGIC;
int kill = 0;
int ret;
filp->f_version = 0;
@ -1130,15 +1135,9 @@ err_wr:
goto err;
err:
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
if (!--pipe->files) {
inode->i_pipe = NULL;
kill = 1;
}
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
__pipe_unlock(pipe);
if (kill)
free_pipe_info(pipe);
put_pipe_info(inode, pipe);
return ret;
}