Re: [PATCH] fix sighand use after free

[Rik van Riel]

On 08/13/2014 11:58 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 08/13, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>
>> Subject: fix sighand use after free
>>
>> __lock_task_sighand carefully takes the rcu_read_lock, gets
>> tsk->sighand with rcu_dereference, and verifies that the task
>> is still using the sighand_struct after taking the spinlock.
>>
>> This works much better if the sighand struct is actually rcu
>> freed.
> 
> I promise, I'll send the doc patch soon ;)
> 
>> --- a/kernel/fork.c
>> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
>> @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_struct *sighand)
>>  {
>>  	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) {
>>  		signalfd_cleanup(sighand);
>> -		kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand);
>> +		rcu_free(sighand_cachep, sighand);
> 
> Please note that sighand_cachep is SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.

SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU means that the slab page is not given
back to the system until after the RCU grace period has
expired.

However, the objects inside the slab can still be reused
immediately!

In the case of the sighand struct, we have this possible race:

     thread A       thread B              thread C

                    gets task A->sighand
     kmem_cache_free sighand
                                          re-alloc sighand
                    spin_lock sighand
                                          spin_lock_init sighand
                    spin_unlock sighand

Now task C has a sighand which can never be locked.

> Hmm. and what is rcu_free() ?

Ugh, that should have been kfree_rcu of course, with
appropriate rcu space in the struct.

Now I wonder why my test compile succeeded...

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