Commit 5e681704 authored by Piotr Krysiuk's avatar Piotr Krysiuk Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

fs/namespace.c: fix mountpoint reference counter race

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878098

A race condition between threads updating mountpoint reference counter
affects longterm releases 4.4.220, 4.9.220, 4.14.177 and 4.19.118.

The mountpoint reference counter corruption may occur when:
* one thread increments m_count member of struct mountpoint
  [under namespace_sem, but not holding mount_lock]
    pivot_root()
* another thread simultaneously decrements the same m_count
  [under mount_lock, but not holding namespace_sem]
    put_mountpoint()
      unhash_mnt()
        umount_mnt()
          mntput_no_expire()

To fix this race condition, grab mount_lock before updating m_count in
pivot_root().

Reference: CVE-2020-12114
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPiotr Krysiuk <piotras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan May <ian.may@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent f07e43f6
......@@ -3176,8 +3176,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pivot_root, const char __user *, new_root,
/* make certain new is below the root */
if (!is_path_reachable(new_mnt, new.dentry, &root))
goto out4;
root_mp->m_count++; /* pin it so it won't go away */
lock_mount_hash();
root_mp->m_count++; /* pin it so it won't go away */
detach_mnt(new_mnt, &parent_path);
detach_mnt(root_mnt, &root_parent);
if (root_mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_LOCKED) {
......
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