Re: [syzbot] WARNING: refcount bug in sys_memfd_secret

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sat Oct 23 2021 - 13:16:48 EST




On October 23, 2021 8:27:28 AM PDT, Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 05:07:40PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 17:02, syzbot
>> <syzbot+b904a1de3ec43711eba5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > syzbot found the following issue on:
>> >
>> > HEAD commit: 64222515138e Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2021-10-22' of git://ano..
>> > git tree: upstream
>> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=178e86c4b00000
>> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=be398dd7862f4b36
>> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b904a1de3ec43711eba5
>> > compiler: gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
>> >
>> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> > Reported-by: syzbot+b904a1de3ec43711eba5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> +Mike, Jordy for secretmem.c
>
>I was actually the first to report it ;-)
>
>https://lore.kernel.org/all/YXJjuWyY0h+Qaj5U@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
>and my first reaction was to send a revert the untested commit 110860541f44
>("mm/secretmem: use refcount_t instead of atomic_t").
>
>Anyway, this should fix it:
>
>From c22a588fab3a0762f0a8c0dbab99343c48b3e27b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 18:13:16 +0300
>Subject: [PATCH] secretmem: bump initial refcount to fix refcount woes
>
>Commit 110860541f44 ("mm/secretmem: use refcount_t instead of atomic_t")
>replaced atomic_t with refcount_t but it dind't take into account that
>unlike atomic_inc(), refcount_inc() presumes that "the caller already has a
>reference on the object". With that, using 0 as initial count caused
>warnings in the refcount code:
>
>[ 20.957833] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>[ 20.957844] refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
>[ 20.957897] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 598 at /home/rppt/git/linux/lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0xcf/0xf0
>[ 20.957919] Modules linked in:
>[ 20.957930] CPU: 3 PID: 598 Comm: secretmemfd Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6+ #432
>[ 20.957944] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
>[ 20.957948] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xcf/0xf0
>[ 20.957957] Code: 01 01 e8 d4 db c3 ff 0f 0b c3 80 3d 39 32 43 01 00 0f 85 6b ff ff ff 48 c7 c7 00 bc c5 af c6 05 25 32 43 01 01 e8 b1 db c3 ff <0f> 0b c3 48 c7 c7 b0 bb c5 af c6 05 10 32 43 01 01 e8 9b db c3 ff
>[ 20.957962] RSP: 0018:ffffb188c0583f20 EFLAGS: 00010282
>[ 20.957967] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000027
>[ 20.957971] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8bfefbb975b0 RDI: ffff8bfefbb975b8
>[ 20.957974] RBP: ffffb188c0583f48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
>[ 20.957977] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffb188c0583d38 R12: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.957980] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.957983] FS: 00007f9467b9c740(0000) GS:ffff8bfefbb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>[ 20.957993] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>[ 20.957997] CR2: 00007ffe83be8084 CR3: 00000001100cc003 CR4: 0000000000060ee0
>[ 20.958001] Call Trace:
>[ 20.959285] __x64_sys_memfd_secret+0xa9/0xc0
>[ 20.959308] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
>[ 20.959331] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>[ 20.959352] RIP: 0033:0x7f9467cba89d
>[ 20.959358] Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d c3 f5 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
>[ 20.959362] RSP: 002b:00007ffe83bb8148 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001bf
>[ 20.959368] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000561f62400d50 RCX: 00007f9467cba89d
>[ 20.959372] RDX: 0000000000000e11 RSI: 0000000000008000 RDI: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.959375] RBP: 00007ffe83bb8160 R08: 000000002c06910a R09: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.959378] R10: 00007f9467d8a1c4 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000561f624008d0
>[ 20.959381] R13: 00007ffe83bb82b0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.959386] ---[ end trace 9368244c7159e4de ]---
>[ 20.960666] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>[ 20.960675] refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
>[ 20.960717] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 598 at /home/rppt/git/linux/lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0x4f/0xf0
>[ 20.960737] Modules linked in:
>[ 20.960742] CPU: 1 PID: 598 Comm: secretmemfd Tainted: G W 5.15.0-rc6+ #432
>[ 20.960748] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
>[ 20.960751] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x4f/0xf0
>[ 20.960759] Code: 00 00 f3 c3 83 fe 03 74 43 83 fe 04 75 1f 80 3d b3 32 43 01 00 75 eb 48 c7 c7 58 bc c5 af c6 05 a3 32 43 01 01 e8 31 dc c3 ff <0f> 0b c3 80 3d 93 32 43 01 00 75 cc 48 c7 c7 88 bc c5 af c6 05 83
>[ 20.960764] RSP: 0018:ffffb188c0583e40 EFLAGS: 00010286
>[ 20.960769] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8bfec1f51900 RCX: 0000000000000027
>[ 20.960772] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8bfefba975b0 RDI: ffff8bfefba975b8
>[ 20.960775] RBP: 0000000000080003 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
>[ 20.960778] R10: ffff8bfec439da80 R11: ffffb188c0583c58 R12: ffff8bfec4e576a0
>[ 20.960781] R13: ffff8bfec01a8ca0 R14: ffff8bfecd314300 R15: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.960784] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8bfefba80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>[ 20.960835] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>[ 20.960840] CR2: 00007f9467c85290 CR3: 0000000080a0c004 CR4: 0000000000060ee0
>[ 20.960843] Call Trace:
>[ 20.960849] secretmem_release+0x26/0x30
>[ 20.960862] __fput+0x85/0x240
>[ 20.960868] task_work_run+0x67/0xa0
>[ 20.960890] do_exit+0x363/0xbb0
>[ 20.960902] do_group_exit+0x35/0x90
>[ 20.960908] __x64_sys_exit_group+0xf/0x10
>[ 20.960913] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
>[ 20.960922] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>[ 20.960928] RIP: 0033:0x7f9467c852c6
>[ 20.960933] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f9467c8529c.
>[ 20.960936] RSP: 002b:00007ffe83bb8168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
>[ 20.960941] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9467d8c610 RCX: 00007f9467c852c6
>[ 20.960944] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.960947] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: ffffffffffffff80
>[ 20.960950] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f9467d8c610
>[ 20.960953] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f9467d8ffc8 R15: 0000000000000000
>[ 20.960957] ---[ end trace 9368244c7159e4df ]---
>
>Bump the initial reference count value to 1 to fix this.
>
>Fixes: 110860541f44 ("mm/secretmem: use refcount_t instead of atomic_t")
>Reported-by: syzbot+b904a1de3ec43711eba5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Excellent, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

>---
> mm/secretmem.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
>index 1fea68b8d5a6..06fd6407ed03 100644
>--- a/mm/secretmem.c
>+++ b/mm/secretmem.c
>@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ module_param_named(enable, secretmem_enable, bool, 0400);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(secretmem_enable,
> "Enable secretmem and memfd_secret(2) system call");
>
>-static refcount_t secretmem_users;
>+static refcount_t secretmem_users = REFCOUNT_INIT(1);
>
> bool secretmem_active(void)
> {
>- return !!refcount_read(&secretmem_users);
>+ return refcount_read(&secretmem_users) > 1;
> }
>
> static vm_fault_t secretmem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)

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Kees Cook