Re: [PATCH] vc_screen: reload & check struct vc_data pointer in vcs_read() to avoid UAF

[Jiri Slaby]

On 23. 01. 23, 23:48, George Kennedy wrote:
> After a call to console_unlock() in vcs_read() the vc_data struct can be
> freed by vc_deallocate(). Because of that, the struct vc_data pointer needs
> to be reloaded and checked for NULL to avoid the UAF below when vcs_size()
> is called.
>
> Syzkaller reported a UAF in vcs_size().
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)
> Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881137479a8 by task 4a005ed81e27e65/1537

Could you trim the stack traces a bit, for example as follows?

> CPU: 0 PID: 1537 Comm: 4a005ed81e27e65 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc5 #1
> Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.15.0-2.module
> Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
> __asan_report_load4_noabort (mm/kasan/report_generic.c:350)
> vcs_size (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:215)
> vcs_read (drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:415)
> vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:468 fs/read_write.c:450)
> ...
>   </TASK>
>
> Allocated by task 1191:
> ...
> kmalloc_trace (mm/slab_common.c:1069)
> vc_allocate (./include/linux/slab.h:580 ./include/linux/slab.h:720
>      drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1128 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1108)
> con_install (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3383)
> tty_init_dev (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1301 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1413
>      drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1390)
> tty_open (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2126)
> chrdev_open (fs/char_dev.c:415)
> do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:883)
> vfs_open (fs/open.c:1014)
> ...
>
> Freed by task 1548:
> ...
> kfree (mm/slab_common.c:1021)
> vc_port_destruct (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1094)
> tty_port_destructor (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:296)
> tty_port_put (drivers/tty/tty_port.c:312)
> vt_disallocate_all (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:662 (discriminator 2))
> vt_ioctl (drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:903)
> tty_ioctl (drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2776)
> ...
>
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888113747800
>   which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
> The buggy address is located 424 bytes inside of
>   1024-byte region [ffff888113747800, ffff888113747c00)
>
> The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> page:00000000b3fe6c7c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
>      index:0x0 pfn:0x113740
> head:00000000b3fe6c7c order:3 compound_mapcount:0 subpages_mapcount:0
>      compound_pincount:0
> anon flags: 0x17ffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
> raw: 0017ffffc0010200 ffff888100042dc0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
> raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
>
> Memory state around the buggy address:
>   ffff888113747880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>   ffff888113747900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> > ffff888113747980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>                                    ^
>   ffff888113747a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>   ffff888113747a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ==================================================================
> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
>
> Fixes: ac751efa6a0d ("console: rename acquire/release_console_sem() to console_lock/unlock()")
> Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: George Kennedy <george.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
> index 1850bacdb5b0..efa4f14fc9c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
> @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ vcs_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>   		poll->event = 0;
>   	read = 0;
>   	ret = 0;
> -	while (count) {
> +	while (vc && count) {
>   		unsigned int this_round, skip = 0;
>   		int size;
>   
> @@ -465,9 +465,17 @@ vcs_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>   		pos += this_round;
>   		read += this_round;
>   		count -= this_round;
> +
> +		/* Reload if more to do. May have been freed by vc_deallocate()
> +		 * after console_unlock()
> +		 */
> +		if (count)
> +			vc = vcs_vc(inode, &viewed);
>   	}
>   	*ppos += read;
> -	if (read)
> +	if (!vc)
> +		ret = -ENXIO;

Wouldn't it make more sense to simply return from the loop immediately 
(goto unlock_out)? So that you wouldn't need to add vc to the while 
condition and the added 'if (count)' would contain also this 'if (!vc)?

> +	else if (read)
>   		ret = read;
>   unlock_out:
>   	console_unlock();

thanks,
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js
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