CVE-2016-9191: Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)
value: The cgroup offline implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 mishandles certain drain operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) by leveraging access to a container environment for executing a crafted application, as demonstrated by trinity.
CWE description: Weaknesses in this category are related to improper management of system resources.
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5
Published: 2016-11-28T03:59Z
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Language: C
Files changed: fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
Commit date: 2017-01-10 13:34:57 +1300
Commit message: sysctl: Drop reference added by grab_header in proc_sys_readdir

Fixes CVE-2016-9191, proc_sys_readdir doesn't drop reference
added by grab_header when return from !dir_emit_dots path.
It can cause any path called unregister_sysctl_table will
wait forever.

The calltrace of CVE-2016-9191:

[ 5535.960522] Call Trace:
[ 5535.963265]  [<ffffffff817cdaaf>] schedule+0x3f/0xa0
[ 5535.968817]  [<ffffffff817d33fb>] schedule_timeout+0x3db/0x6f0
[ 5535.975346]  [<ffffffff817cf055>] ? wait_for_completion+0x45/0x130
[ 5535.982256]  [<ffffffff817cf0d3>] wait_for_completion+0xc3/0x130
[ 5535.988972]  [<ffffffff810d1fd0>] ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80
[ 5535.994804]  [<ffffffff8130de64>] drop_sysctl_table+0xc4/0xe0
[ 5536.001227]  [<ffffffff8130de17>] drop_sysctl_table+0x77/0xe0
[ 5536.007648]  [<ffffffff8130decd>] unregister_sysctl_table+0x4d/0xa0
[ 5536.014654]  [<ffffffff8130deff>] unregister_sysctl_table+0x7f/0xa0
[ 5536.021657]  [<ffffffff810f57f5>] unregister_sched_domain_sysctl+0x15/0x40
[ 5536.029344]  [<ffffffff810d7704>] partition_sched_domains+0x44/0x450
[ 5536.036447]  [<ffffffff817d0761>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x111/0x1f0
[ 5536.043844]  [<ffffffff81167684>] rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x64/0xb0
[ 5536.051336]  [<ffffffff8116789d>] update_flag+0x11d/0x210
[ 5536.057373]  [<ffffffff817cf61f>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x2df/0x450
[ 5536.064186]  [<ffffffff81167acb>] ? cpuset_css_offline+0x1b/0x60
[ 5536.070899]  [<ffffffff810fce3d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 5536.077420]  [<ffffffff817cf61f>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x2df/0x450
[ 5536.084234]  [<ffffffff8115a9f5>] ? css_killed_work_fn+0x25/0x220
[ 5536.091049]  [<ffffffff81167ae5>] cpuset_css_offline+0x35/0x60
[ 5536.097571]  [<ffffffff8115aa2c>] css_killed_work_fn+0x5c/0x220
[ 5536.104207]  [<ffffffff810bc83f>] process_one_work+0x1df/0x710
[ 5536.110736]  [<ffffffff810bc7c0>] ? process_one_work+0x160/0x710
[ 5536.117461]  [<ffffffff810bce9b>] worker_thread+0x12b/0x4a0
[ 5536.123697]  [<ffffffff810bcd70>] ? process_one_work+0x710/0x710
[ 5536.130426]  [<ffffffff810c3f7e>] kthread+0xfe/0x120
[ 5536.135991]  [<ffffffff817d4baf>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
[ 5536.142041]  [<ffffffff810c3e80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x230/0x230

One cgroup maintainer mentioned that "cgroup is trying to offline
a cpuset css, which takes place under cgroup_mutex.  The offlining
ends up trying to drain active usages of a sysctl table which apprently
is not happening."
The real reason is that proc_sys_readdir doesn't drop reference added
by grab_header when return from !dir_emit_dots path. So this cpuset
offline path will wait here forever.

See here for details: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/13

Fixes: f0c3b5093add ("[readdir] convert procfs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Yang Shukui <yangshukui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Diff: diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 55313d9948954b..d4e37acd48217d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -707,20 +707,21 @@ static int proc_sys_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 		return PTR_ERR(head);
 
 	ctl_dir = container_of(head, struct ctl_dir, header);
 
 	if (!dir_emit_dots(file, ctx))
-		return 0;
+		goto out;
 
 	pos = 2;
 
 	for (first_entry(ctl_dir, &h, &entry); h; next_entry(&h, &entry)) {
 		if (!scan(h, entry, &pos, file, ctx)) {
 			sysctl_head_finish(h);
 			break;
 		}
 	}
+out:
 	sysctl_head_finish(head);
 	return 0;
 }
 
 static int proc_sys_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)

Vulnerable code: 		return 0;
Fixed code: 		goto out;
out: