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

From: zhong jiang
Date: Fri Mar 08 2019 - 02:10:18 EST


On 2019/3/6 10:05, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> [ CC'ed Mike and Peter ]
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:42:00PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>> On 2019/3/5 14:26, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:32 PM zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 2019/3/4 22:11, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 3:00 PM zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2019/3/4 15:40, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 5:19 PM zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi, guys
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I also hit the following issue. but it fails to reproduce the issue by the log.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> it seems to the case that we access the mm->owner and deference it will result in the UAF.
>>>>>>>> But it should not be possible that we specify the incomplete process to be the mm->owner.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>>> FWIW syzbot was able to reproduce this with this reproducer.
>>>>>>> This looks like a very subtle race (threaded reproducer that runs
>>>>>>> repeatedly in multiple processes), so most likely we are looking for
>>>>>>> something like few instructions inconsistency window.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I has a little doubtful about the instrustions inconsistency window.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess that you mean some smb barriers should be taken into account.:-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because IMO, It should not be the lock case to result in the issue.
>>>>> Since the crash was triggered on x86 _most likley_ this is not a
>>>>> missed barrier. What I meant is that one thread needs to executed some
>>>>> code, while another thread is stopped within few instructions.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It is weird and I can not find any relationship you had said with the issue.:-(
>>>>
>>>> Because It is the cause that mm->owner has been freed, whereas we still deference it.
>>>>
>>>> From the lastest freed task call trace, It fails to create process.
>>>>
>>>> Am I miss something or I misunderstand your meaning. Please correct me.
>>> Your analysis looks correct. I am just saying that the root cause of
>>> this use-after-free seems to be a race condition.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yep, Indeed, I can not figure out how the race works. I will dig up further.
> Yes it's a race condition.
>
> We were aware about the non-cooperative fork userfaultfd feature
> creating userfaultfd file descriptor that gets reported to the parent
> uffd, despite they belong to mm created by failed forks.
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg136357.html
>
> The fork failure in my testcase happened because of signal pending
> that interrupted fork after the failed-fork uffd context, was already
> pushed to the userfaultfd reader/monitor. CRIU then takes care of
> filtering the failed fork cases so we didn't want to make the fork
> code more complicated just for userfaultfd.
>
> In reality if MEMCG is enabled at build time, mm->owner maintainance
> code now creates a race condition in the above case, with any fork
> failure.
>
> I pinged Mike yesterday to ask if my theory could be true for this bug
> and one solution he suggested is to do the userfaultfd_dup at a point
> where fork cannot fail anymore. That's precisely what we were
> wondering to do back then to avoid the failed fork reports to the
> non cooperative uffd monitor.
>
> That will solve the false positive deliveries that CRIU manager
> currently filters out too. From a theoretical standpoint it's also
> quite strange to even allow any uffd ioctl to run on a otherwise long
> gone mm created for a process that in the end wasn't even created (the
> mm got temporarily fully created, but no child task really ever used
> such mm). However that mm is on its way to exit_mmap as soon as the
> ioclt returns and this only ever happens during race conditions, so
> the way CRIU monitor works there wasn't anything fundamentally
> concerning about this detail, despite it's remarkably "strange". Our
> priority was to keep the fork code as simple as possible and keep
> userfaultfd as non intrusive as possible.
>
> One alternative solution I'm wondering about for this memcg issue is
> to free the task struct with RCU also when fork has failed and to add
> the mm_update_next_owner before mmput. That will still report failed
> forks to the uffd monitor, so it's not the ideal fix, but since it's
> probably simpler I'm posting it below. Also I couldn't reproduce the
> problem with the testcase here yet.
>
> >From 6cbf9d377b705476e5226704422357176f79e32c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:21:37 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] userfaultfd: use RCU to free the task struct when fork
> fails if MEMCG
>
> MEMCG depends on the task structure not to be freed under
> rcu_read_lock() in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() after it dereferences
> mm->owner.
>
> A better fix would be to avoid registering forked vmas in userfaultfd
> contexts reported to the monitor, if case fork ends up failing.
Hi, Andrea

I can reproduce the issue in arm64 qemu machine. The issue will leave after applying the
patch.

Tested-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Meanwhile, I just has a little doubt whether it is necessary to use RCU to free the task struct or not.
I think that mm->owner alway be NULL after failing to create to process. Because we call mm_clear_owner.

Thanks,
zhong jiang
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/fork.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index eb9953c82104..3bcbb361ffbc 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -953,6 +953,15 @@ static void mm_init_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
> #endif
> }
>
> +static __always_inline void mm_clear_owner(struct mm_struct *mm,
> + struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> + if (mm->owner == p)
> + mm->owner = NULL;
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> static void mm_init_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> @@ -1345,6 +1354,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
> free_pt:
> /* don't put binfmt in mmput, we haven't got module yet */
> mm->binfmt = NULL;
> + mm_init_owner(mm, NULL);
> mmput(mm);
>
> fail_nomem:
> @@ -1676,6 +1686,24 @@ static inline void rcu_copy_process(struct task_struct *p)
> #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU */
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> +static void __delayed_free_task(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *tsk = container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu);
> +
> + free_task(tsk);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> +
> +static __always_inline void delayed_free_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> + call_rcu(&tsk->rcu, __delayed_free_task);
> +#else /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> + free_task(tsk);
> +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> +}
> +
> /*
> * This creates a new process as a copy of the old one,
> * but does not actually start it yet.
> @@ -2137,8 +2165,10 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
> bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces:
> exit_task_namespaces(p);
> bad_fork_cleanup_mm:
> - if (p->mm)
> + if (p->mm) {
> + mm_clear_owner(p->mm, p);
> mmput(p->mm);
> + }
> bad_fork_cleanup_signal:
> if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD))
> free_signal_struct(p->signal);
> @@ -2169,7 +2199,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
> bad_fork_free:
> p->state = TASK_DEAD;
> put_task_stack(p);
> - free_task(p);
> + delayed_free_task(p);
> fork_out:
> spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> hlist_del_init(&delayed.node);
>
> .
>