Re: [PATCH] mm: don't allow fault_around_bytes to be 0

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon Jul 28 2014 - 03:53:35 EST


On 07/28/14 11:43, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> Sasha Levin triggered use-after-free when fuzzing using trinity and the KASAN
> patchset:
>
> AddressSanitizer: use after free in do_read_fault.isra.40+0x3c2/0x510 at addr ffff88048a733110
> page:ffffea001229ccc0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x0
> page flags: 0xafffff80008000(tail)
> page dumped because: kasan error
> CPU: 6 PID: 9262 Comm: trinity-c104 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc6-next-20140723-sasha-00047-g289342b-dirty #929
> 00000000000000fb 0000000000000000 ffffea001229ccc0 ffff88038ac0fb78
> ffffffffa5e40903 ffff88038ac0fc48 ffff88038ac0fc38 ffffffffa142acfc
> 0000000000000001 ffff880509ff5aa8 ffff88038ac10038 ffff88038ac0fbb0
> Call Trace:
> dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
> kasan_report_error (mm/kasan/report.c:98 mm/kasan/report.c:166)
> ? debug_smp_processor_id (lib/smp_processor_id.c:57)
> ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2606)
> ? put_lock_stats.isra.13 (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:254)
> ? do_read_fault.isra.40 (mm/memory.c:2784 mm/memory.c:2849 mm/memory.c:2898)
> __asan_load8 (mm/kasan/kasan.c:364)
> ? do_read_fault.isra.40 (mm/memory.c:2864 mm/memory.c:2898)
> do_read_fault.isra.40 (mm/memory.c:2864 mm/memory.c:2898)
> ? _raw_spin_unlock (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:183)
> ? __pte_alloc (mm/memory.c:598)
> handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:3092 mm/memory.c:3225 mm/memory.c:3345 mm/memory.c:3374)
> ? pud_huge (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:611 arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c:76)
> __get_user_pages (mm/gup.c:286 mm/gup.c:478)
> __mlock_vma_pages_range (mm/mlock.c:262)
> __mm_populate (mm/mlock.c:710)
> SyS_remap_file_pages (mm/mmap.c:2653 mm/mmap.c:2593)
> tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:541)
> Read of size 8 by thread T9262:
> Memory state around the buggy address:
> ffff88048a732e80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a732f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a732f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a733000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a733080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> >ffff88048a733100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ^
> ffff88048a733180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a733200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a733280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a733300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ffff88048a733380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>
>
> It looks like that pte pointer is invalid in do_fault_around().
> This could happen if fault_around_bytes is set to 0.
> fault_around_pages() and fault_around_mask() calls rounddown_pow_of_to(fault_around_bytes)
> The result of rounddown_pow_of_to is undefined if parameter == 0
> (in my environment it returns 0x8000000000000000).
>
> One way to fix this would be to return 0 from fault_around_pages() if fault_around_bytes == 0,
> however this would add extra code on fault path.
>
> So let's just forbid to set fault_around_bytes to zero.
> Fault around is not used if fault_around_pages() <= 1, so if anyone doesn't want to use
> it, fault_around_bytes could be set to any value in range [1, 2*PAGE_SIZE - 1]
> instead of 0.
>
> Fixes: a9b0f861("mm: nominate faultaround area in bytes rather than page order")
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15.x
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 7e8d820..5927c42 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2784,7 +2784,7 @@ static int fault_around_bytes_get(void *data, u64 *val)
>
> static int fault_around_bytes_set(void *data, u64 val)
> {
> - if (val / PAGE_SIZE > PTRS_PER_PTE)
> + if (!val || val / PAGE_SIZE > PTRS_PER_PTE)
> return -EINVAL;
> fault_around_bytes = val;
> return 0;
>

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