[PATCH net-next] umh: fix race condition

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Thu Jun 07 2018 - 13:23:17 EST


kasan reported use-after-free:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x2d3/0x310 kernel/umh.c:195
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8801d9202370 by task kworker/u4:2/50
Workqueue: events_unbound call_usermodehelper_exec_work
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0x1b9/0x294 lib/dump_stack.c:113
print_address_description+0x6c/0x20b mm/kasan/report.c:256
kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:354 [inline]
kasan_report.cold.7+0x242/0x2fe mm/kasan/report.c:412
__asan_report_store4_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:437
call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x2d3/0x310 kernel/umh.c:195
process_one_work+0xc1e/0x1b50 kernel/workqueue.c:2145
worker_thread+0x1cc/0x1440 kernel/workqueue.c:2279
kthread+0x345/0x410 kernel/kthread.c:240
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:412

The reason is that 'sub_info' cannot be accessed out of parent task
context, since it will be freed by the child.
Instead remember the pid in the child task.

Fixes: 449325b52b7a ("umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper")
Reported-by: syzbot+2c73319c406f1987d156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/umh.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c
index 30db93fd7e39..c449858946af 100644
--- a/kernel/umh.c
+++ b/kernel/umh.c
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static int call_usermodehelper_exec_async(void *data)

commit_creds(new);

+ sub_info->pid = task_pid_nr(current);
if (sub_info->file)
retval = do_execve_file(sub_info->file,
sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
@@ -191,8 +192,6 @@ static void call_usermodehelper_exec_work(struct work_struct *work)
if (pid < 0) {
sub_info->retval = pid;
umh_complete(sub_info);
- } else {
- sub_info->pid = pid;
}
}
}
--
2.9.5