[PATCH] kernel/watch_queue: Make pipe NULL while clearing watch_queue

From: Siddh Raman Pant
Date: Sat Jul 23 2022 - 09:57:44 EST


If not done, a reference to a freed pipe remains in the watch_queue,
as this function is called before freeing a pipe in free_pipe_info()
(see line 834 of fs/pipe.c).

This causes a UAF when post_one_notification tries to access the pipe on
a key update, which is reported by syzbot.

Bug report: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=1870dd7791ba05f2ea7f47f7cbdde701173973fc
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c70d87ac1d001f29a058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <code@xxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watch_queue.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watch_queue.c b/kernel/watch_queue.c
index bb9962b33f95..bab9e09c74cf 100644
--- a/kernel/watch_queue.c
+++ b/kernel/watch_queue.c
@@ -637,8 +637,17 @@ void watch_queue_clear(struct watch_queue *wqueue)
spin_lock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
}

- spin_unlock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ /* Clearing the watch queue, so we should clean the associated pipe. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
+ if (wqueue->pipe) {
+ wqueue->pipe->watch_queue = NULL;
+ wqueue->pipe = NULL;
+ }
+#endif
+
+ spin_unlock_bh(&wqueue->lock);
}

/**
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