Patch "mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mm-uprobes-fix-multiple-free-of-uprobes_state.xol_area.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:15:26 -0700
Subject: mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of ->uprobes_state.xol_area

From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]>

commit 355627f518978b5167256d27492fe0b343aaf2f2 upstream.

Commit 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for write killable") made it possible to kill a forking task while it is waiting to acquire its ->mmap_sem for write, in dup_mmap().

However, it was overlooked that this introduced an new error path before the new mm_struct's ->uprobes_state.xol_area has been set to NULL after being copied from the old mm_struct by the memcpy in dup_mm(). For a task that has previously hit a uprobe tracepoint, this resulted in the 'struct xol_area' being freed multiple times if the task was killed at just the right time while forking.

Fix it by setting ->uprobes_state.xol_area to NULL in mm_init() rather than in uprobe_dup_mmap().

With CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y, the bug can be reproduced by the same C program given by commit 2b7e8665b4ff ("fork: fix incorrect fput of ->exe_file causing use-after-free"), provided that a uprobe tracepoint has been set on the fork_thread() function. For example:

    $ gcc reproducer.c -o reproducer -lpthread
    $ nm reproducer | grep fork_thread
    0000000000400719 t fork_thread
    $ echo "p $PWD/reproducer:0x719" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
    $ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/uprobes/enable
    $ ./reproducer

Here is the use-after-free reported by KASAN:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in uprobe_clear_state+0x1c4/0x200
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff8800320a8b88 by task reproducer/198

    CPU: 1 PID: 198 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 4.13.0-rc7-00015-g36fde05f3fb5 #255
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-20170228_101828-anatol 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
     dump_stack+0xdb/0x185
     print_address_description+0x7e/0x290
     kasan_report+0x23b/0x350
     __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x19/0x20
     uprobe_clear_state+0x1c4/0x200
     mmput+0xd6/0x360
     do_exit+0x740/0x1670
     do_group_exit+0x13f/0x380
     get_signal+0x597/0x17d0
     do_signal+0x99/0x1df0
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x166/0x1e0
     syscall_return_slowpath+0x258/0x2c0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xbc/0xbe

    ...

    Allocated by task 199:
     save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
     kasan_kmalloc+0xfc/0x180
     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf3/0x330
     __create_xol_area+0x10f/0x780
     uprobe_notify_resume+0x1674/0x2210
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x150/0x1e0
     prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x14b/0x180
     retint_user+0x8/0x20

    Freed by task 199:
     save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
     kasan_slab_free+0xa8/0x1a0
     kfree+0xba/0x210
     uprobe_clear_state+0x151/0x200
     mmput+0xd6/0x360
     copy_process.part.8+0x605f/0x65d0
     _do_fork+0x1a5/0xbd0
     SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
     do_syscall_64+0x22f/0x660
     return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a

Note: without KASAN, you may instead see a "Bad page state" message, or simply a general protection fault.

---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    2 --
 kernel/fork.c           |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1262,8 +1262,6 @@ void uprobe_end_dup_mmap(void)
 
 void uprobe_dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *oldmm, struct mm_struct *newmm)
 {
-	newmm->uprobes_state.xol_area = NULL;
-
 	if (test_bit(MMF_HAS_UPROBES, &oldmm->flags)) {
 		set_bit(MMF_HAS_UPROBES, &newmm->flags);
 		/* unconditionally, dup_mmap() skips VM_DONTCOPY vmas */

@@ -781,6 +781,13 @@ static void mm_init_owner(struct mm_stru
 #endif
 }
 
+static void mm_init_uprobes_state(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_UPROBES
+	mm->uprobes_state.xol_area = NULL;
+#endif
+}
+
 static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns)
 {

@@ -808,6 +815,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct
 #if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) && !USE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCKS
 	mm->pmd_huge_pte = NULL;
 #endif
+	mm_init_uprobes_state(mm);
 
 	if (current->mm) {
 		mm->flags = current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/mm-uprobes-fix-multiple-free-of-uprobes_state.xol_area.patch