Re: [PATCH 1/2] autofs: fix memory leak of waitqueues in autofs_catatonic_mode

From: Ian Kent
Date: Fri Aug 04 2023 - 22:38:51 EST


On 4/8/23 19:14, Christian Brauner wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 01:33:12PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
From: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>

Syzkaller reports a memory leak:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810b279e00 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor399", pid 3631, jiffies 4294964921 (age 23.870s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 9e 27 0b 81 88 ff ff ..........'.....
08 9e 27 0b 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..'.............
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814cfc90>] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1046
[<ffffffff81bb75ca>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline]
[<ffffffff81bb75ca>] autofs_wait+0x3fa/0x9a0 fs/autofs/waitq.c:378
[<ffffffff81bb88a7>] autofs_do_expire_multi+0xa7/0x3e0 fs/autofs/expire.c:593
[<ffffffff81bb8c33>] autofs_expire_multi+0x53/0x80 fs/autofs/expire.c:619
[<ffffffff81bb6972>] autofs_root_ioctl_unlocked+0x322/0x3b0 fs/autofs/root.c:897
[<ffffffff81bb6a95>] autofs_root_ioctl+0x25/0x30 fs/autofs/root.c:910
[<ffffffff81602a9c>] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
[<ffffffff81602a9c>] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
[<ffffffff81602a9c>] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
[<ffffffff81602a9c>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:856
[<ffffffff84608225>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<ffffffff84608225>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<ffffffff84800087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

autofs_wait_queue structs should be freed if their wait_ctr becomes zero.
Otherwise they will be lost.

In this case an AUTOFS_IOC_EXPIRE_MULTI ioctl is done, then a new
waitqueue struct is allocated in autofs_wait(), its initial wait_ctr
equals 2. After that wait_event_killable() is interrupted (it returns
-ERESTARTSYS), so that 'wq->name.name == NULL' condition may be not
satisfied. Actually, this condition can be satisfied when
autofs_wait_release() or autofs_catatonic_mode() is called and, what is
also important, wait_ctr is decremented in those places. Upon the exit of
autofs_wait(), wait_ctr is decremented to 1. Then the unmounting process
begins: kill_sb calls autofs_catatonic_mode(), which should have freed the
waitqueues, but it only decrements its usage counter to zero which is not
a correct behaviour.

edit:imk
This description is of course not correct. The umount performed as a result
of an expire is a umount of a mount that has been automounted, it's not the
autofs mount itself. They happen independently, usually after everything
mounted within the autofs file system has been expired away. If everything
hasn't been expired away the automount daemon can still exit leaving mounts
in place. But expires done in both cases will result in a notification that
calls autofs_wait_release() with a result status. The problem case is the
summary execution of of the automount daemon. In this case any waiting
processes won't be woken up until either they are terminated or the mount
is umounted.
end edit: imk

So in catatonic mode we should free waitqueues which counter becomes zero.

edit: imk
Initially I was concerned that the calling of autofs_wait_release() and
autofs_catatonic_mode() was not mutually exclusive but that can't be the
case (obviously) because the queue entry (or entries) is removed from the
list when either of these two functions are called. Consequently the wait
entry will be freed by only one of these functions or by the woken process
in autofs_wait() depending on the order of the calls.
end edit: imk

Reported-by: syzbot+5e53f70e69ff0c0a1c0c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Takeshi Misawa <jeliantsurux@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: autofs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/autofs/waitq.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs/waitq.c b/fs/autofs/waitq.c
index 54c1f8b8b075..efdc76732fae 100644
--- a/fs/autofs/waitq.c
+++ b/fs/autofs/waitq.c
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ void autofs_catatonic_mode(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi)
wq->status = -ENOENT; /* Magic is gone - report failure */
kfree(wq->name.name - wq->offset);
wq->name.name = NULL;
- wq->wait_ctr--;
wake_up_interruptible(&wq->queue);
+ if (!--wq->wait_ctr)
+ kfree(wq);
The only thing that peeked my interest was:

autofs_wait()
-> if (!wq)
-> wq->wait_ctr = 2;
-> autofs_notify_daemon()

Let's say autofs_write() fails with -EIO or for whatever reason and so
we end up calling:

-> autofs_catatonic_mode()

If wait_ctr can be decremented in between so that
autofs_catatonic_mode() frees it and then autofs_wait() would cause a
UAF when it tries to much with wq again. But afaict, this can't happen
because and would also affect autofs_notify_daemon() then.

Interesting observation.

I'll think about it some more.


But I think a call autofs_catatonic_mode() or autofs_wait_release()

from autofs_notify_daemon() will reduce the count by one. At this

point there can't be any other calls to autofs_wait_release() for

this wait id since they come back as a result of the notification. But

perhaps there could be a call for another wait id which implies that

catatonic mode might cause a problem ... I'm not sure that can happen ...

if the pipe isn't setup then the autofs mount hasn't been done ... if

the pipe has gone away the daemon has gone away so no calls to

autofs_wait_release() ...


It is worth some more thought though ...


I guess there could be something odd where some process accesses

a path and triggers a request when the daemon is killed and then

the mount is umounted at the same time of the request but it's

hard to see how that could happen.


Ian