KASAN: use-after-free Read in slip_ioctl

From: Dae R. Jeong
Date: Sat Mar 25 2023 - 04:18:59 EST


Hello,

We observed a use-after-free in slip_ioctl as attached at the end.

Although I'm not sure that our analysis is correct, it seems that the
concurrent execution of slip_ioctl() and slip_close() causes the issue
as follows.

CPU1 CPU2
slip_ioctl slip_close (via slip_hangup)
----- -----
// Read a non-null value
sl = tty->disc_data;
// Nullify tty->disc_data and then
// unregister sl->dev
rcu_assign_pointer(tty->disc_data, NULL);
unregister_netdev(sl->dev);
// sl is freed in unregister_netdev()
if (!sl || sl->magic != SLIP_MAGIC)
return -EINVAL;

I suspect that the two functions can be executed concurrently as I
don't see a locking mechanism to prevent this in tty_ioctl(), and that
sl is freed in unregister_netdev() as explained in the callstack. But
still we need to look into this further.


Best regards,
Dae R. Jeong


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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in slip_ioctl+0x6db/0x7d0 drivers/net/slip/slip.c:1083
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88804b856c80 by task syz-executor.0/9106

CPU: 2 PID: 9106 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7-00166-gf09dbf1cf0d5 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1cf/0x2b7 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x21/0x470 mm/kasan/report.c:317
print_report+0x108/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:433
kasan_report+0xe5/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:495
slip_ioctl+0x6db/0x7d0 drivers/net/slip/slip.c:1083
tty_ioctl+0x11e9/0x1a20 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2787
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x110/0x180 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x478d29
Code: f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 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 c7 c1 bc ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fbbbdfb8be8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000781408 RCX: 0000000000478d29
RDX: 0000000020000040 RSI: 00000000402c542c RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000f477909a R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000781580
r13: 0000000000781414 R14: 0000000000781408 R15: 00007ffcfdc4f040
</TASK>

Allocated by task 9103:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:516
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
__kmalloc_node+0x366/0x550 mm/slub.c:4477
kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:623 [inline]
kvmalloc_node+0x6e/0x170 mm/util.c:613
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:750 [inline]
kvzalloc include/linux/slab.h:758 [inline]
alloc_netdev_mqs+0x86/0x1240 net/core/dev.c:10603
sl_alloc drivers/net/slip/slip.c:756 [inline]
slip_open+0x489/0x1240 drivers/net/slip/slip.c:817
tty_ldisc_open+0xb4/0x120 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:433
tty_set_ldisc+0x366/0x860 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:558
tiocsetd drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2433 [inline]
tty_ioctl+0x168f/0x1a20 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2714
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x110/0x180 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Freed by task 9105:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x3d/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
____kasan_slab_free+0x134/0x1c0 mm/kasan/common.c:367
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:200 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1759 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x278/0x370 mm/slub.c:1785
slab_free mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
kfree+0x108/0x460 mm/slub.c:4567
device_release+0x189/0x220
kobject_cleanup+0x24f/0x360 lib/kobject.c:673
netdev_run_todo+0x14ac/0x15a0 net/core/dev.c:10385
unregister_netdev+0x1e9/0x270 net/core/dev.c:10922
tty_ldisc_hangup+0x224/0x750 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:700
__tty_hangup+0x5b4/0x870 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:637
tty_vhangup drivers/tty/tty_io.c:707 [inline]
tty_ioctl+0xa7f/0x1a20 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2718
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x110/0x180 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804b856000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 3200 bytes inside of
4096-byte region [ffff88804b856000, ffff88804b857000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00012e1400 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x4b850
head:ffffea00012e1400 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea000421c600 dead000000000003 ffff88801344c140
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080040004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 3028, tgid 3028 (systemd-udevd), ts 3568645047764, free_ts 3567951761241
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2532 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x800/0xc10 mm/page_alloc.c:4283
__alloc_pages+0x2f0/0x650 mm/page_alloc.c:5549
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1829 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x1eb/0xc00 mm/slub.c:1974
new_slab mm/slub.c:2034 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0x581/0xff0 mm/slub.c:3036
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3123 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3214 [inline]
__kmalloc_node+0x3db/0x550 mm/slub.c:4473
kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:623 [inline]
kvmalloc_node+0x6e/0x170 mm/util.c:613
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:750 [inline]
seq_buf_alloc fs/seq_file.c:38 [inline]
seq_read_iter+0x269/0x10f0 fs/seq_file.c:210
call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2181 [inline]
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
vfs_read+0x838/0xd30 fs/read_write.c:470
ksys_read+0x182/0x2c0 fs/read_write.c:607
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4e/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1449 [inline]
free_pcp_prepare+0x76d/0x890 mm/page_alloc.c:1499
free_unref_page_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:3380 [inline]
free_unref_page+0x8a/0x880 mm/page_alloc.c:3476
__skb_frag_unref include/linux/skbuff.h:3380 [inline]
skb_release_data+0x3f0/0x910 net/core/skbuff.c:685
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:756 [inline]
__kfree_skb+0x60/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:770
e1000_unmap_and_free_tx_resource drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:1970 [inline]
e1000_clean_tx_irq drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3860 [inline]
e1000_clean+0x5ba/0x4400 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3801
__napi_poll+0xe7/0x6b0 net/core/dev.c:6511
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6578 [inline]
net_rx_action+0x7a5/0x1210 net/core/dev.c:6689
__do_softirq+0x372/0x783 kernel/softirq.c:571

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88804b856b80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88804b856c00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88804b856c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88804b856d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88804b856d80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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