Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in handle_userfault

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 16:59:51 EST


On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:15:17PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> +Cc aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx, xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:46:13AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, syzbot
> > <bot+998c483ca801a50e3ce5b63a845216588ada5e2a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > syzkaller hit the following crash on
> > > a31cc455c512f3f1dd5f79cac8e29a7c8a617af8
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/master
> > > compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
> > > .config is attached
> > > Raw console output is attached.
> > > C reproducer is attached
> > > syzkaller reproducer is attached. See https://goo.gl/kgGztJ
> > > for information about syzkaller reproducers
> >
>
> Andrea or Pavel, can one of you please fix this? It's another use-after-free
> related to userfaultfd "fork events", and it can easily be triggered by an
> unprivileged user. It was reported a month ago already; the original report is
> here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/syzkaller-bugs/sS99S-Z-9No.
> (Please consider adding yourself and/or linux-mm to the MAINTAINERS file for
> fs/userfaultfd.c, so that you are Cc'ed on userfaultfd bug reports.) In
> userfaultfd_event_wait_completion(), called from dup_fctx(), the kernel is
> freeing the the new userfaultfd_ctx because the old one had all its fd's closed,
> but actually the new one is still in use by the new mm_struct.
>

Fixed now:

#syz fix: userfaultfd: clear the vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx if UFFD_EVENT_FORK fails