CVE-2023-52707: kernel: sched/psi: Fix use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue()
Component: kernel
Severity: Moderate
CWE: CWE-416 (Use After Free)
CVSS v3: 7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Public date: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

sched/psi: Fix use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue()

If a non-root cgroup gets removed when there is a thread that registered
trigger and is polling on a pressure file within the cgroup, the polling
waitqueue gets freed in the following path:

 do_rmdir
   cgroup_rmdir
     kernfs_drain_open_files
       cgroup_file_release
         cgroup_pressure_release
           psi_trigger_destroy

However, the polling thread still has a reference to the pressure file and
will access the freed waitqueue when the file is closed or upon exit:

 fput
   ep_eventpoll_release
     ep_free
       ep_remove_wait_queue
         remove_wait_queue

This results in use-after-free as pasted below.

The fundamental problem here is that cgroup_file_release() (and
consequently waitqueue's lifetime) is not tied to the file's real lifetime.
Using wake_up_pollfree() here might be less than ideal, but it is in line
with the comment at commit 42288cb44c4b ("wait: add wake_up_pollfree()")
since the waitqueue's lifetime is not tied to file's one and can be
considered as another special case. While this would be fixable by somehow
making cgroup_file_release() be tied to the fput(), it would require
sizable refactoring at cgroups or higher layer which might be more
justifiable if we identify more cases like this.

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x60/0xc0
  Write of size 4 at addr ffff88810e625328 by task a.out/4404

	CPU: 19 PID: 4404 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6 #38
	Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
	Call Trace:
	<TASK>
	dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0xa0
	print_report+0x16c/0x4e0
	kasan_report+0xc3/0xf0
	kasan_check_range+0x2d2/0x310
	_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x60/0xc0
	remove_wait_queue+0x1a/0xa0
	ep_free+0x12c/0x170
	ep_eventpoll_release+0x26/0x30
	__fput+0x202/0x400
	task_work_run+0x11d/0x170
	do_exit+0x495/0x1130
	do_group_exit+0x100/0x100
	get_signal+0xd67/0xde0
	arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x2a/0x2b0
	exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x94/0x100
	syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x20/0x40
	do_syscall_64+0x52/0x90
	entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
	</TASK>

 Allocated by task 4404:

	kasan_set_track+0x3d/0x60
	__kasan_kmalloc+0x85/0x90
	psi_trigger_create+0x113/0x3e0
	pressure_write+0x146/0x2e0
	cgroup_file_write+0x11c/0x250
	kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x186/0x220
	vfs_write+0x3d8/0x5c0
	ksys_write+0x90/0x110
	do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
	entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

 Freed by task 4407:

	kasan_set_track+0x3d/0x60
	kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40
	____kasan_slab_free+0x11d/0x170
	slab_free_freelist_hook+0x87/0x150
	__kmem_cache_free+0xcb/0x180
	psi_trigger_destroy+0x2e8/0x310
	cgroup_file_release+0x4f/0xb0
	kernfs_drain_open_files+0x165/0x1f0
	kernfs_drain+0x162/0x1a0
	__kernfs_remove+0x1fb/0x310
	kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x95/0xe0
	cgroup_addrm_files+0x67f/0x700
	cgroup_destroy_locked+0x283/0x3c0
	cgroup_rmdir+0x29/0x100
	kernfs_iop_rmdir+0xd1/0x140
	vfs_rmdir+0xfe/0x240
	do_rmdir+0x13d/0x280
	__x64_sys_rmdir+0x2c/0x30
	do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
	entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd


Affected upstream versions: 5.2
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 5.10.169, 5.15.95, 5.4.232, 6.1.13, 6.2
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 7caeb5457bd01ccba0df1d6f4872f20d28e50b38