[PATCH 1/2] cgroup: verify that source is a string

[Christian Brauner]

From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>

The following sequence can be used to trigger a UAF:

int fscontext_fd = fsopen("cgroup");
int fd_null = open("/dev/null, O_RDONLY);
int fsconfig(fscontext_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "source", fd_null);
close_range(3, ~0U, 0);

The cgroup v1 specific fs parser expects a string for the "source"
parameter. However, it is perfectly legitimate to e.g. specify a file
descriptor for the "source" parameter. The fs parser doesn't know what a
filesystem allows there. So it's a bug to assume that "source" is always
of type fs_value_is_string when it can reasonably also be
fs_value_is_file.

This assumption in the cgroup code causes a UAF because struct
fs_parameter uses a union for the actual value. Access to that union
is guarded by the param->type member. Since the cgroup paramter parser
didn't check param->type but unconditionally moved param->string into
fc->source a close on the fscontext_fd would trigger a UAF during
put_fs_context() which frees fc->source thereby freeing the file stashed
in param->file causing a UAF during a close of the fd_null.

Fix this by verifying that param->type is actually a string and report
an error if not.

In follow up patches I'll add a new generic helper that can be used here
and by other filesystems instead of this error-prone copy-pasta fix. But
fixing it in here first makes backporting a it to stable a lot easier.

Reported-by: syzbot+283ce5a46486d6acdbaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index ee93b6e89587..527917c0b30b 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -912,6 +912,8 @@ int cgroup1_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
 	opt = fs_parse(fc, cgroup1_fs_parameters, param, &result);
 	if (opt == -ENOPARAM) {
 		if (strcmp(param->key, "source") == 0) {
+			if (param->type != fs_value_is_string)
+				return invalf(fc, "Non-string source");
 			if (fc->source)
 				return invalf(fc, "Multiple sources not supported");
 			fc->source = param->string;

base-commit: e73f0f0ee7541171d89f2e2491130c7771ba58d3
-- 
2.30.2