[PATCH 5.4 120/191] io_uring: use current task creds instead of allocating a new one

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 07 2020 - 16:24:08 EST


From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 0b8c0ec7eedcd8f9f1a1f238d87f9b512b09e71a upstream.

syzbot reports:

kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 0 PID: 9217 Comm: io_uring-sq Not tainted 5.4.0-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:creds_are_invalid kernel/cred.c:792 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__validate_creds include/linux/cred.h:187 [inline]
RIP: 0010:override_creds+0x9f/0x170 kernel/cred.c:550
Code: ac 25 00 81 fb 64 65 73 43 0f 85 a3 37 00 00 e8 17 ab 25 00 49 8d 7c
24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84
c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 96 00 00 00 41 8b 5c 24 10 bf
RSP: 0018:ffff88809c45fda0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000043736564 RCX: ffffffff814f3318
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff814f3329 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: ffff88809c45fdb8 R08: ffff8880a3aac240 R09: ffffed1014755849
R10: ffffed1014755848 R11: ffff8880a3aac247 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888098ab1600 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffd51c40664 CR3: 0000000092641000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
io_sq_thread+0x1c7/0xa20 fs/io_uring.c:3274
kthread+0x361/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:255
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace f2e1a4307fbe2245 ]---
RIP: 0010:creds_are_invalid kernel/cred.c:792 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__validate_creds include/linux/cred.h:187 [inline]
RIP: 0010:override_creds+0x9f/0x170 kernel/cred.c:550
Code: ac 25 00 81 fb 64 65 73 43 0f 85 a3 37 00 00 e8 17 ab 25 00 49 8d 7c
24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6 04 02 84
c0 74 08 3c 03 0f 8e 96 00 00 00 41 8b 5c 24 10 bf
RSP: 0018:ffff88809c45fda0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000043736564 RCX: ffffffff814f3318
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff814f3329 RDI: 0000000000000010
RBP: ffff88809c45fdb8 R08: ffff8880a3aac240 R09: ffffed1014755849
R10: ffffed1014755848 R11: ffff8880a3aac247 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff888098ab1600 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffd51c40664 CR3: 0000000092641000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

which is caused by slab fault injection triggering a failure in
prepare_creds(). We don't actually need to create a copy of the creds
as we're not modifying it, we just need a reference on the current task
creds. This avoids the failure case as well, and propagates the const
throughout the stack.

Fixes: 181e448d8709 ("io_uring: async workers should inherit the user creds")
Reported-by: syzbot+5320383e16029ba057ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
[ only use the io_uring.c portion of the patch - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/io_uring.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/io_uring.c
+++ b/fs/io_uring.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ struct io_ring_ctx {

struct user_struct *user;

- struct cred *creds;
+ const struct cred *creds;

struct completion ctx_done;

@@ -3876,7 +3876,7 @@ static int io_uring_create(unsigned entr
ctx->account_mem = account_mem;
ctx->user = user;

- ctx->creds = prepare_creds();
+ ctx->creds = get_current_cred();
if (!ctx->creds) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err;