CVE-2017-15126 (published 2018-01-14T06:29Z)

A use-after-free flaw was found in fs/userfaultfd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.6. The issue is related to the handling of fork failure when dealing with event messages. Failure to fork correctly can lead to a situation where a fork event will be removed from an already freed list of events with userfaultfd_ctx_put().

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 8.1, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-119
cwe_name: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
description: The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
extended_description: 
            Certain languages allow direct addressing of memory locations and do not automatically ensure that these locations are valid for the memory buffer that is being referenced. This can cause read or write operations to be performed on memory locations that may be associated with other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Andrea Arcangeli
author_date: 2017-10-03 16:15:38-07:00
msg: userfaultfd: non-cooperative: fix fork use after free

When reading the event from the uffd, we put it on a temporary
fork_event list to detect if we can still access it after releasing and
retaking the event_wqh.lock.

If fork aborts and removes the event from the fork_event all is fine as
long as we're still in the userfault read context and fork_event head is
still alive.

We've to put the event allocated in the fork kernel stack, back from
fork_event list-head to the event_wqh head, before returning from
userfaultfd_ctx_read, because the fork_event head lifetime is limited to
the userfaultfd_ctx_read stack lifetime.

Forgetting to move the event back to its event_wqh place then results in
__remove_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &ewq->wq); in
userfaultfd_event_wait_completion to remove it from a head that has been
already freed from the reader stack.

This could only happen if resolve_userfault_fork failed (for example if
there are no file descriptors available to allocate the fork uffd).  If
it succeeded it was put back correctly.

Furthermore, after find_userfault_evt receives a fork event, the forked
userfault context in fork_nctx and uwq->msg.arg.reserved.reserved1 can
be released by the fork thread as soon as the event_wqh.lock is
released.  Taking a reference on the fork_nctx before dropping the lock
prevents an use after free in resolve_userfault_fork().

If the fork side aborted and it already released everything, we still
try to succeed resolve_userfault_fork(), if possible.

Fixes: 893e26e61d04eac9 ("userfaultfd: non-cooperative: Add fork() event")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170920180413.26713-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: userfaultfd.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -588,6 +588,12 @@ static void userfaultfd_event_wait_completion(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
 			break;
 		if (ACCESS_ONCE(ctx->released) ||
 		    fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+			/*
+			 * &ewq->wq may be queued in fork_event, but
+			 * __remove_wait_queue ignores the head
+			 * parameter. It would be a problem if it
+			 * didn't.
+			 */
 			__remove_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &ewq->wq);
 			if (ewq->msg.event == UFFD_EVENT_FORK) {
 				struct userfaultfd_ctx *new;
@@ -1061,6 +1067,12 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int no_wait,
 					(unsigned long)
 					uwq->msg.arg.reserved.reserved1;
 				list_move(&uwq->wq.entry, &fork_event);
+				/*
+				 * fork_nctx can be freed as soon as
+				 * we drop the lock, unless we take a
+				 * reference on it.
+				 */
+				userfaultfd_ctx_get(fork_nctx);
 				spin_unlock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock);
 				ret = 0;
 				break;
@@ -1091,19 +1103,53 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int no_wait,
 
 	if (!ret && msg->event == UFFD_EVENT_FORK) {
 		ret = resolve_userfault_fork(ctx, fork_nctx, msg);
+		spin_lock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock);
+		if (!list_empty(&fork_event)) {
+			/*
+			 * The fork thread didn't abort, so we can
+			 * drop the temporary refcount.
+			 */
+			userfaultfd_ctx_put(fork_nctx);
+
+			uwq = list_first_entry(&fork_event,
+					       typeof(*uwq),
+					       wq.entry);
+			/*
+			 * If fork_event list wasn't empty and in turn
+			 * the event wasn't already released by fork
+			 * (the event is allocated on fork kernel
+			 * stack), put the event back to its place in
+			 * the event_wq. fork_event head will be freed
+			 * as soon as we return so the event cannot
+			 * stay queued there no matter the current
+			 * "ret" value.
+			 */
+			list_del(&uwq->wq.entry);
+			__add_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &uwq->wq);
 
-		if (!ret) {
-			spin_lock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock);
-			if (!list_empty(&fork_event)) {
-				uwq = list_first_entry(&fork_event,
-						       typeof(*uwq),
-						       wq.entry);
-				list_del(&uwq->wq.entry);
-				__add_wait_queue(&ctx->event_wqh, &uwq->wq);
+			/*
+			 * Leave the event in the waitqueue and report
+			 * error to userland if we failed to resolve
+			 * the userfault fork.
+			 */
+			if (likely(!ret))
 				userfaultfd_event_complete(ctx, uwq);
-			}
-			spin_unlock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock);
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * Here the fork thread aborted and the
+			 * refcount from the fork thread on fork_nctx
+			 * has already been released. We still hold
+			 * the reference we took before releasing the
+			 * lock above. If resolve_userfault_fork
+			 * failed we've to drop it because the
+			 * fork_nctx has to be freed in such case. If
+			 * it succeeded we'll hold it because the new
+			 * uffd references it.
+			 */
+			if (ret)
+				userfaultfd_ctx_put(fork_nctx);
 		}
+		spin_unlock(&ctx->event_wqh.lock);
 	}
 
 	return ret;

programming_language: C