Re: linux-next boot error: general protection fault in tomoyo_get_local_path

[Alexey Gladkov]

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 01:16:59PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This is
> >
> >         if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC && *pos == '/') {
> >                 char *ep;
> >                 const pid_t pid = (pid_t) simple_strtoul(pos + 1, &ep, 10);
> >                 struct pid_namespace *proc_pidns = proc_pid_ns(d_inode(dentry)); // <= here
> >
> >                 if (*ep == '/' && pid && pid ==
> >                     task_tgid_nr_ns(current, proc_pidns)) {
> >
> > which was added by commit c59f415a7cb6e1e1 ("Use proc_pid_ns() to get pid_namespace from the proc superblock").
> >
> > @@ -161,9 +162,10 @@ static char *tomoyo_get_local_path(struct dentry *dentry, char * const buffer,
> >         if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC && *pos == '/') {
> >                 char *ep;
> >                 const pid_t pid = (pid_t) simple_strtoul(pos + 1, &ep, 10);
> > +               struct pid_namespace *proc_pidns = proc_pid_ns(d_inode(dentry));
> >
> >                 if (*ep == '/' && pid && pid ==
> > -                   task_tgid_nr_ns(current, sb->s_fs_info)) {
> > +                   task_tgid_nr_ns(current, proc_pidns)) {
> >                         pos = ep - 5;
> >                         if (pos < buffer)
> >                                 goto out;
> >
> > Alexey and Eric, any clue?
> 
> Looking at the stack backtrace this is happening as part of creating a
> file or a device node.  The dentry that is passed in most likely
> comes from d_alloc_parallel.  So we have d_inode == NULL.
> 
> I want to suggest doing the very simple fix:
> 
> -	if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC && *pos == '/') {
> +	if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC && *pos == '/' && denty->d_inode) {
> 
> But I don't know if there are any other security hooks early in lookup,
> that could be called for an already existing dentry.
> 
> So it looks like we need a version proc_pid_ns that works for a dentry,
> or a superblock.
> 
> Alex do you think you can code up an patch against my proc-next branch
> to fix this?

Sure.

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Rgrds, legion