[PATCH] security: apparmor: Fix a possible sleep-in-atomic-context bug in find_attach()

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 08:12:35 EST


The kernel may sleep while holding a RCU lock.
The function call path (from bottom to top) in Linux 4.19 is:

security/apparmor/domain.c, 331:
vfs_getxattr_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) in aa_xattrs_match
security/apparmor/domain.c, 425:
aa_xattrs_match in __attach_match
security/apparmor/domain.c, 485:
__attach_match in find_attach
security/apparmor/domain.c, 484:
rcu_read_lock in find_attach

vfs_getxattr_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) can sleep at runtime.

To fix this possible bug, GFP_KERNEL is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC for
vfs_getxattr_alloc().

This bug is found by a static analysis tool STCheck written by myself.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
security/apparmor/domain.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/domain.c b/security/apparmor/domain.c
index 9be7ccb8379e..60b54ce57d1f 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/domain.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/domain.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static int aa_xattrs_match(const struct linux_binprm *bprm,

for (i = 0; i < profile->xattr_count; i++) {
size = vfs_getxattr_alloc(d, profile->xattrs[i], &value,
- value_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ value_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (size >= 0) {
u32 perm;

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