[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "sysfs: fix use after free in case of concurrent read/write" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue May 7 10:32:54 UTC 2013
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
sysfs: fix use after free in case of concurrent read/write
to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 097e5385c66ae1cd19af2bfc2c98cd981087ce45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 10:12:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: fix use after free in case of concurrent read/write
and readdir
commit f7db5e7660b122142410dcf36ba903c73d473250 upstream.
The inode->i_mutex isn't hold when updating filp->f_pos
in read()/write(), so the filp->f_pos might be read as
0 or 1 in readdir() when there is concurrent read()/write()
on this same file, then may cause use after free in readdir().
The bug can be reproduced with Li Zefan's test code on the
link:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2160771/
This patch fixes the use after free under this situation.
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
fs/sysfs/dir.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 8777436..1a32e0f 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
enum kobj_ns_type type;
const void *ns;
ino_t ino;
+ loff_t off;
type = sysfs_ns_type(parent_sd);
ns = sysfs_info(dentry->d_sb)->ns[type];
@@ -1035,6 +1036,7 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
return 0;
}
mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
+ off = filp->f_pos;
for (pos = sysfs_dir_pos(ns, parent_sd, filp->f_pos, pos);
pos;
pos = sysfs_dir_next_pos(ns, parent_sd, filp->f_pos, pos)) {
@@ -1046,19 +1048,24 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
len = strlen(name);
ino = pos->s_ino;
type = dt_type(pos);
- filp->f_pos = pos->s_hash;
+ off = filp->f_pos = pos->s_hash;
filp->private_data = sysfs_get(pos);
mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
- ret = filldir(dirent, name, len, filp->f_pos, ino, type);
+ ret = filldir(dirent, name, len, off, ino, type);
mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
if (ret < 0)
break;
}
mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
- if ((filp->f_pos > 1) && !pos) { /* EOF */
- filp->f_pos = INT_MAX;
+
+ /* don't reference last entry if its refcount is dropped */
+ if (!pos) {
filp->private_data = NULL;
+
+ /* EOF and not changed as 0 or 1 in read/write path */
+ if (off == filp->f_pos && off > 1)
+ filp->f_pos = INT_MAX;
}
return 0;
}
--
1.8.1.2
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