Re: [PATCH next] audit: fix potential double free on error path from fsnotify_add_inode_mark

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 22-08-22 10:34:15, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 4:50 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon 22-08-22 10:29:05, Gaosheng Cui wrote:
> > > Audit_alloc_mark() assign pathname to audit_mark->path, on error path
> > > from fsnotify_add_inode_mark(), fsnotify_put_mark will free memory
> > > of audit_mark->path, but the caller of audit_alloc_mark will free
> > > the pathname again, so there will be double free problem.
> > >
> > > Fix this by resetting audit_mark->path to NULL pointer on error path
> > > from fsnotify_add_inode_mark().
> > >
> > > Fixes: 7b1293234084d ("fsnotify: Add group pointer in fsnotify_init_mark()")
> > > Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Good spotting! The patch looks good to me. Feel free to add:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > > ---
> > >  kernel/audit_fsnotify.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c
> > > index 6432a37ac1c9..c565fbf66ac8 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c
> > > @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_alloc_mark(struct audit_krule *krule, char *pa
> > >
> > >       ret = fsnotify_add_inode_mark(&audit_mark->mark, inode, 0);
> > >       if (ret < 0) {
> > > +             audit_mark->path = NULL;
> > >               fsnotify_put_mark(&audit_mark->mark);
> 
> As I'm tracing the code path from audit through fsnotify, and back
> into audit, I'm wondering if we still have a problem.  When
> fsnotify_add_inode_mark() fails it will end up freeing not just
> audit_mark->path, but audit_mark itself via audit_fsnotify_mark_free()
> (via a call into fsnotify_put_mark()), yes?

I don't think so. fsnotify_add_mark_locked() will call fsnotify_put_mark()
but that is just a counter part to fsnotify_get_mark() a few lines above.
The caller of fsnotify_add_inode_mark() still holds its own mark reference
which prevents mark from being freed.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR