Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] powerpc/kvm/book3s: Fixes possible 'use after release' of kvm

[Leonardo Bras]

On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 15:57 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Hi Leonardo,

Hello Micheal, thanks for the feedback!

> 
> Leonardo Bras <leonardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Fixes a possible 'use after free' of kvm variable in
> > kvm_vm_ioctl_create_spapr_tce, where it does a mutex_unlock(&kvm-
> > >lock)
> > after a kvm_put_kvm(kvm).
> 
> There is no potential for an actual use after free here AFAICS.
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> > b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> > index 5834db0a54c6..a402ead833b6 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_vio.c
> 
> The preceeding context is:
> 
> 	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
> 
> 	/* Check this LIOBN hasn't been previously allocated */
> 	ret = 0;
> 	list_for_each_entry(siter, &kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables, list) {
> 		if (siter->liobn == args->liobn) {
> 			ret = -EBUSY;
> 			break;
> 		}
> 	}
> 
> 	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
> 	if (!ret)
> 		ret = anon_inode_getfd("kvm-spapr-tce",
> &kvm_spapr_tce_fops,
> 				       stt, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
> 
> > @@ -316,14 +316,13 @@ long kvm_vm_ioctl_create_spapr_tce(struct kvm
> > *kvm,
> >  
> >  	if (ret >= 0)
> >  		list_add_rcu(&stt->list, &kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables);
> > -	else
> > -		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
> >  
> >  	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
> >  
> >  	if (ret >= 0)
> >  		return ret;
> >  
> > +	kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
> >  	kfree(stt);
> >   fail_acct:
> >  	account_locked_vm(current->mm, kvmppc_stt_pages(npages),
> > false);
> 
> If the kvm_put_kvm() you've moved actually caused the last reference
> to
> be dropped that would mean that our caller had passed us a kvm struct
> without holding a reference to it, and that would be a bug in our
> caller.
> 

So, there is no chance that between this function's kvm_get_kvm() and 
kvm_put_kvm(), another thread can decrease this reference counter?

> Or put another way, it would mean the mutex_lock() above could
> already
> be operating on a freed kvm struct.
> 
> The kvm_get_kvm() prior to the anon_inode_getfd() is to account for
> the
> reference that's held by the `stt` struct, and dropped in
> kvm_spapr_tce_release().
> 
> So although this patch isn't wrong, the explanation is not accurate.
> 
> cheers

Kind regards

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