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    drm/drm_file: Fix pid refcounting race · 4f2a129b
    Jann Horn authored
    <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard
    <mripard@kernel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
    
    filp->pid is supposed to be a refcounted pointer; however, before this
    patch, drm_file_update_pid() only increments the refcount of a struct
    pid after storing a pointer to it in filp->pid and dropping the
    dev->filelist_mutex, making the following race possible:
    
    process A               process B
    =========               =========
                            begin drm_file_update_pid
                            mutex_lock(&dev->filelist_mutex)
                            rcu_replace_pointer(filp->pid, <pid B>, 1)
                            mutex_unlock(&dev->filelist_mutex)
    begin drm_file_update_pid
    mutex_lock(&dev->filelist_mutex)
    rcu_replace_pointer(filp->pid, <pid A>, 1)
    mutex_unlock(&dev->filelist_mutex)
    get_pid(<pid A>)
    synchronize_rcu()
    put_pid(<pid B>)   *** pid B reaches refcount 0 and is freed here ***
                            get_pid(<pid B>)   *** UAF ***
                            synchronize_rcu()
                            put_pid(<pid A>)
    
    As far as I know, this race can only occur with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y
    because it requires RCU to detect a quiescent state in code that is not
    explicitly calling into the scheduler.
    
    This race leads to use-after-free of a "struct pid".
    It is probably somewhat hard to hit because process A has to pass
    through a synchronize_rcu() operation while process B is between
    mutex_unlock() and get_pid().
    
    Fix it by ensuring that by the time a pointer to the current task's pid
    is stored in the file, an extra reference to the pid has been taken.
    
    This fix also removes the condition for synchronize_rcu(); I think
    that optimization is unnecessary complexity, since in that case we
    would usually have bailed out on the lockless check above.
    
    Fixes: 1c7a387f ("drm: Update file owner during use")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
    4f2a129b
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