From patchwork Thu Feb 28 14:43:50 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 224051 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291F42C02CA for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 01:49:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4nC-000795-PJ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:49:06 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4nB-000785-B9 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:49:05 +0000 Received: from [188.250.143.69] (helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UB4nA-0001Nq-Ok; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:49:05 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 080/139] tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:43:50 +0000 Message-Id: <1362062689-2567-81-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1362062689-2567-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1362062689-2567-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: Greg Thelen , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.7 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Greg Thelen commit 5f00110f7273f9ff04ac69a5f85bb535a4fd0987 upstream. The tmpfs remount logic preserves filesystem mempolicy if the mpol=M option is not specified in the remount request. A new policy can be specified if mpol=M is given. Before this patch remounting an mpol bound tmpfs without specifying mpol= mount option in the remount request would set the filesystem's mempolicy object to a freed mempolicy object. To reproduce the problem boot a DEBUG_PAGEALLOC kernel and run: # mkdir /tmp/x # mount -t tmpfs -o size=100M,mpol=interleave nodev /tmp/x # grep /tmp/x /proc/mounts nodev /tmp/x tmpfs rw,relatime,size=102400k,mpol=interleave:0-3 0 0 # mount -o remount,size=200M nodev /tmp/x # grep /tmp/x /proc/mounts nodev /tmp/x tmpfs rw,relatime,size=204800k,mpol=??? 0 0 # note ? garbage in mpol=... output above # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/x/f count=1 # panic here Panic: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) [...] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Call Trace: mpol_shared_policy_init+0xa5/0x160 shmem_get_inode+0x209/0x270 shmem_mknod+0x3e/0xf0 shmem_create+0x18/0x20 vfs_create+0xb5/0x130 do_last+0x9a1/0xea0 path_openat+0xb3/0x4d0 do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0 do_sys_open+0xfe/0x1e0 compat_sys_open+0x1b/0x20 cstar_dispatch+0x7/0x1f Non-debug kernels will not crash immediately because referencing the dangling mpol will not cause a fault. Instead the filesystem will reference a freed mempolicy object, which will cause unpredictable behavior. The problem boils down to a dropped mpol reference below if shmem_parse_options() does not allocate a new mpol: config = *sbinfo shmem_parse_options(data, &config, true) mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol) sbinfo->mpol = config.mpol /* BUG: saves unreferenced mpol */ This patch avoids the crash by not releasing the mempolicy if shmem_parse_options() doesn't create a new mpol. How far back does this issue go? I see it in both 2.6.36 and 3.3. I did not look back further. Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- mm/shmem.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 626a7e7..2cede41 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2541,6 +2541,7 @@ static int shmem_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) unsigned long inodes; int error = -EINVAL; + config.mpol = NULL; if (shmem_parse_options(data, &config, true)) return error; @@ -2565,8 +2566,13 @@ static int shmem_remount_fs(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) sbinfo->max_inodes = config.max_inodes; sbinfo->free_inodes = config.max_inodes - inodes; - mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol); - sbinfo->mpol = config.mpol; /* transfers initial ref */ + /* + * Preserve previous mempolicy unless mpol remount option was specified. + */ + if (config.mpol) { + mpol_put(sbinfo->mpol); + sbinfo->mpol = config.mpol; /* transfers initial ref */ + } out: spin_unlock(&sbinfo->stat_lock); return error;