Vulnerability: 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.
Vulnerability ID: CVE-2020-12657
CWE: CWE-416
Severity score: 6.4
Project: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Published: 2020-05-05
File: 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.
--
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>
Commit author: Zhiqiang Liu

Vulnerable version (before fix):
 static struct bfq_queue *bfq_init_rq(struct request *rq) 	return bfqq; }  static void bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(struct bfq_queue *bfqq) { 	struct bfq_data *bfqd = bfqq->bfqd; 	enum bfqq_expiration reason; 	unsigned long flags;  	spin_lock_irqsave(&bfqd->lock, flags); 	bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq);  	if (bfqq != bfqd->in_service_queue) { 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bfqd->lock, flags); 		return; 	}  	if (bfq_bfqq_budget_timeout(bfqq)) 		/* 		 * Also here the queue can be safely expired static enum hrtimer_restart bfq_idle_slice_timer(struct hrtimer *timer) 	 * early. 	 */ 	if (bfqq) 		bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(bfqq);  	return HRTIMER_NORESTART; }

Fixed version (after fix):
 static struct bfq_queue *bfq_init_rq(struct request *rq) 	return bfqq; }  static void bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq) { 	enum bfqq_expiration reason; 	unsigned long flags;  	spin_lock_irqsave(&bfqd->lock, flags);  	/* 	 * 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. 	 */ 	if (bfqq != bfqd->in_service_queue) { 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bfqd->lock, flags); 		return; 	}  	bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq);  	if (bfq_bfqq_budget_timeout(bfqq)) 		/* 		 * Also here the queue can be safely expired static enum hrtimer_restart bfq_idle_slice_timer(struct hrtimer *timer) 	 * early. 	 */ 	if (bfqq) 		bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(bfqd, bfqq);  	return HRTIMER_NORESTART; }

Patch:
patch: @@ -6215,20 +6215,28 @@ static struct bfq_queue *bfq_init_rq(struct request *rq)
 	return bfqq;
 }
 
-static void bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
+static void
+bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq)
 {
-	struct bfq_data *bfqd = bfqq->bfqd;
 	enum bfqq_expiration reason;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&bfqd->lock, flags);
-	bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(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.
+	 */
 	if (bfqq != bfqd->in_service_queue) {
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bfqd->lock, flags);
 		return;
 	}
 
+	bfq_clear_bfqq_wait_request(bfqq);
+
 	if (bfq_bfqq_budget_timeout(bfqq))
 		/*
 		 * Also here the queue can be safely expired
@@ -6273,7 +6281,7 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart bfq_idle_slice_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
 	 * early.
 	 */
 	if (bfqq)
-		bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(bfqq);
+		bfq_idle_slice_timer_body(bfqd, bfqq);
 
 	return HRTIMER_NORESTART;
 }
path: block/bfq-iosched.c