CVE-2020-12657 (C, published 2020-05-05T07:15Z)
Description: value: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.5. There is a use-after-free in block/bfq-iosched.c related to bfq_idle_slice_timer_body.
Severity: MEDIUM (CVSS v3 base score: 7.8)
Weakness: CWE-416 \u2014 Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Files changed:
block/bfq-iosched.c
Commit message: block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body

In bfq_idle_slice_timer func, bfqq = bfqd->in_service_queue is
not in bfqd-lock critical section. The bfqq, which is not
equal to NULL in bfq_idle_slice_timer, may be freed after passing
to bfq_idle_slice_timer_body. So we will access the freed memory.

In addition, considering the bfqq may be in race, we should
firstly check whether bfqq is in service before doing something
on it in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body func. If the bfqq in race is
not in service, it means the bfqq has been expired through
__bfq_bfqq_expire func, and wait_request flags has been cleared in
__bfq_bfqd_reset_in_service func. So we do not need to re-clear the
wait_request of bfqq which is not in service.

KASAN log is given as follows:
[13058.354613] ==================================================================
[13058.354640] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer+0xac/0x290
[13058.354644] Read of size 8 at addr ffffa02cf3e63f78 by task fork13/19767
[13058.354646]
[13058.354655] CPU: 96 PID: 19767 Comm: fork13
[13058.354661] Call trace:
[13058.354667]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x310
[13058.354672]  show_stack+0x28/0x38
[13058.354681]  dump_stack+0xd8/0x108
[13058.354687]  print_address_description+0x68/0x2d0
[13058.354690]  kasan_report+0x124/0x2e0
[13058.354697]  __asan_load8+0x88/0xb0
[13058.354702]  bfq_idle_slice_timer+0xac/0x290
[13058.354707]  __hrtimer_run_queues+0x298/0x8b8
[13058.354710]  hrtimer_interrupt+0x1b8/0x678
[13058.354716]  arch_timer_handler_phys+0x4c/0x78
[13058.354722]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xf0/0x558
[13058.354731]  generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x70
[13058.354735]  __handle_domain_irq+0x94/0x110
[13058.354739]  gic_handle_irq+0x8c/0x1b0
[13058.354742]  el1_irq+0xb8/0x140
[13058.354748]  do_wp_page+0x260/0xe28
[13058.354752]  __handle_mm_fault+0x8ec/0x9b0
[13058.354756]  handle_mm_fault+0x280/0x460
[13058.354762]  do_page_fault+0x3ec/0x890
[13058.354765]  do_mem_abort+0xc0/0x1b0
[13058.354768]  el0_da+0x24/0x28
[13058.354770]
[13058.354773] Allocated by task 19731:
[13058.354780]  kasan_kmalloc+0xe0/0x190
[13058.354784]  kasan_slab_alloc+0x14/0x20
[13058.354788]  kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x130/0x440
[13058.354793]  bfq_get_queue+0x138/0x858
[13058.354797]  bfq_get_bfqq_handle_split+0xd4/0x328
[13058.354801]  bfq_init_rq+0x1f4/0x1180
[13058.354806]  bfq_insert_requests+0x264/0x1c98
[13058.354811]  blk_mq_sched_insert_requests+0x1c4/0x488
[13058.354818]  blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x2d4/0x6e0
[13058.354826]  blk_flush_plug_list+0x230/0x548
[13058.354830]  blk_finish_plug+0x60/0x80
[13058.354838]  read_pages+0xec/0x2c0
[13058.354842]  __do_page_cache_readahead+0x374/0x438
[13058.354846]  ondemand_readahead+0x24c/0x6b0
[13058.354851]  page_cache_sync_readahead+0x17c/0x2f8
[13058.354858]  generic_file_buffered_read+0x588/0xc58
[13058.354862]  generic_file_read_iter+0x1b4/0x278
[13058.354965]  ext4_file_read_iter+0xa8/0x1d8 [ext4]
[13058.354972]  __vfs_read+0x238/0x320
[13058.354976]  vfs_read+0xbc/0x1c0
[13058.354980]  ksys_read+0xdc/0x1b8
[13058.354984]  __arm64_sys_read+0x50/0x60
[13058.354990]  el0_svc_common+0xb4/0x1d8
[13058.354994]  el0_svc_handler+0x50/0xa8
[13058.354998]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
[13058.354999]
[13058.355001] Freed by task 19731:
[13058.355007]  __kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x228
[13058.355010]  kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18
[13058.355014]  kmem_cache_free+0x288/0x3f0
[13058.355018]  bfq_put_queue+0x134/0x208
[13058.355022]  bfq_exit_icq_bfqq+0x164/0x348
[13058.355026]  bfq_exit_icq+0x28/0x40
[13058.355030]  ioc_exit_icq+0xa0/0x150
[13058.355035]  put_io_context_active+0x250/0x438
[13058.355038]  exit_io_context+0xd0/0x138
[13058.355045]  do_exit+0x734/0xc58
[13058.355050]  do_group_exit+0x78/0x220
[13058.355054]  __wake_up_parent+0x0/0x50
[13058.355058]  el0_svc_common+0xb4/0x1d8
[13058.355062]  el0_svc_handler+0x50/0xa8
[13058.355066]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
[13058.355067]
[13058.355071] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffa02cf3e63e70#012 which belongs to the cache bfq_queue of size 464
[13058.355075] The buggy address is located 264 bytes inside of#012 464-byte region [ffffa02cf3e63e70, ffffa02cf3e64040)
[13058.355077] The buggy address belongs to the page:
[13058.355083] page:ffff7e80b3cf9800 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff802db5c90780 index:0xffffa02cf3e606f0 compound_mapcount: 0
[13058.366175] flags: 0x2ffffe0000008100(slab|head)
[13058.370781] raw: 2ffffe0000008100 ffff7e80b53b1408 ffffa02d730c1c90 ffff802db5c90780
[13058.370787] raw: ffffa02cf3e606f0 0000000000370023 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[13058.370789] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[13058.370791]
[13058.370792] Memory state around the buggy address:
[13058.370797]  ffffa02cf3e63e00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb
[13058.370801]  ffffa02cf3e63e80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[13058.370805] >ffffa02cf3e63f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[13058.370808]                                                                 ^
[13058.370811]  ffffa02cf3e63f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[13058.370815]  ffffa02cf3e64000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
[13058.370817] ==================================================================
[13058.370820] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Here, we directly pass the bfqd to bfq_idle_slice_timer_body func.
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V2->V3: rewrite the comment as suggested by Paolo Valente
V1->V2: add one comment, and add Fixes and Reported-by tag.

Fixes: aee69d78d ("block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler")
Acked-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Wang Wang <wangwang2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Feilong Lin <linfeilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


Vulnerable code:
static void bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
	struct bfq_data *bfqd = bfqq->bfqd;
	bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq);
		bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(bfqq);

Fixed code:
static void
bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
	/*
	 * Considering that bfqq may be in race, we should firstly check
	 * whether bfqq is in service before doing something on it. If
	 * the bfqq in race is not in service, it has already been expired
	 * through __bfq_bfqq_expire func and its wait_request flags has
	 * been cleared in __bfq_bfqd_reset_in_service func.
	 */
	bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq);

		bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(bfqd, bfqq);