ACK: [PATCH 1/1] sg: Fix double-free when drives detach during SG_IO

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Fri Jun 9 13:05:04 UTC 2017


On 09/06/17 13:57, Brad Figg wrote:
> From: Calvin Owens <calvinowens at fb.com>
> 
> CVE-2015-8962
> 
> In sg_common_write(), we free the block request and return -ENODEV if
> the device is detached in the middle of the SG_IO ioctl().
> 
> Unfortunately, sg_finish_rem_req() also tries to free srp->rq, so we
> end up freeing rq->cmd in the already free rq object, and then free
> the object itself out from under the current user.
> 
> This ends up corrupting random memory via the list_head on the rq
> object. The most common crash trace I saw is this:
> 
>   ------------[ cut here ]------------
>   kernel BUG at block/blk-core.c:1420!
>   Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff81281eab>] blk_put_request+0x5b/0x80
>   [<ffffffffa0069e5b>] sg_finish_rem_req+0x6b/0x120 [sg]
>   [<ffffffffa006bcb9>] sg_common_write.isra.14+0x459/0x5a0 [sg]
>   [<ffffffff8125b328>] ? selinux_file_alloc_security+0x48/0x70
>   [<ffffffffa006bf95>] sg_new_write.isra.17+0x195/0x2d0 [sg]
>   [<ffffffffa006cef4>] sg_ioctl+0x644/0xdb0 [sg]
>   [<ffffffff81170f80>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x90/0x520
>   [<ffffffff81258967>] ? file_has_perm+0x97/0xb0
>   [<ffffffff811714a1>] SyS_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
>   [<ffffffff81602afb>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>     RIP [<ffffffff81281e04>] __blk_put_request+0x154/0x1a0
> 
> The solution is straightforward: just set srp->rq to NULL in the
> failure branch so that sg_finish_rem_req() doesn't attempt to re-free
> it.
> 
> Additionally, since sg_rq_end_io() will never be called on the object
> when this happens, we need to free memory backing ->cmd if it isn't
> embedded in the object itself.
> 
> KASAN was extremely helpful in finding the root cause of this bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvinowens at fb.com>
> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert at interlog.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
> (backported from commit f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432 upstream)
> Signed-off-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/sg.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
> index 97d6009..8d05976 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c
> @@ -788,8 +788,14 @@ sg_common_write(Sg_fd * sfp, Sg_request * srp,
>  		return k;	/* probably out of space --> ENOMEM */
>  	}
>  	if (atomic_read(&sdp->detaching)) {
> -		if (srp->bio)
> +		if (srp->bio) {
> +			if (srp->rq->cmd != srp->rq->__cmd)
> +				kfree(srp->rq->cmd);
> +
>  			blk_end_request_all(srp->rq, -EIO);
> +			srp->rq = NULL;
> +		}
> +
>  		sg_finish_rem_req(srp);
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	}
> 
Clean backport, looks OK to me. Thanks Brad,

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>




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