[Patch] mqueue: fix the retry logic for netlink_attachskb()

From: Cong Wang
Date: Fri Jul 07 2017 - 14:32:48 EST


The retry logic for netlink_attachskb() inside sys_mq_notify()
is suspicious and vulnerable:

1) The sock refcnt is already released when retry is needed
2) The fd is controllable by user-space because we already
release the file refcnt

so we when retry and the fd has been closed during this small
window, we end up calling netlink_detachskb() on the error path
which releases the sock again and could lead to a use-after-free.

We don't need to re-get the file pointer in the retry loop, keep
it until we finally succeed.

Reported-by: GeneBlue <geneblue.mail@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/mqueue.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index e8d41ff..b894d6c 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -1237,15 +1237,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mq_notify, mqd_t, mqdes,
/* TODO: add a header? */
skb_put(nc, NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN);
/* and attach it to the socket */
-retry:
f = fdget(notification.sigev_signo);
if (!f.file) {
ret = -EBADF;
goto out;
}
+retry:
sock = netlink_getsockbyfilp(f.file);
- fdput(f);
if (IS_ERR(sock)) {
+ fdput(f);
ret = PTR_ERR(sock);
sock = NULL;
goto out;
@@ -1255,6 +1255,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mq_notify, mqd_t, mqdes,
ret = netlink_attachskb(sock, nc, &timeo, NULL);
if (ret == 1)
goto retry;
+ fdput(f);
if (ret) {
sock = NULL;
nc = NULL;
--
2.5.5