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Vegard Nossum authored
If a kthread forks (e.g. usermodehelper since commit 1da5c46f) but fails in copy_process() between calling dup_task_struct() and setting p->set_child_tid, then the value of p->set_child_tid will be inherited from the parent and get prematurely freed by free_kthread_struct(). kthread() - worker_thread() - process_one_work() | - call_usermodehelper_exec_work() | - kernel_thread() | - _do_fork() | - copy_process() | - dup_task_struct() | - arch_dup_task_struct() | - tsk->set_child_tid = current->set_child_tid // implied | - ... | - goto bad_fork_* | - ... | - free_task(tsk) | - free_kthread_struct(tsk) | - kfree(tsk->set_child_tid) - ... - schedule() - __schedule() - wq_worker_sleeping() - kthread_data(task)->flags // UAF The problem started showing up with commit 1da5c46f since it reused ->set_child_tid for the kthread worker data. A better long-term solution might be to get rid of the ->set_child_tid abuse. The comment in set_kthread_struct() also looks slightly wrong. Debugged-by:
Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com> Fixes: 1da5c46f ("kthread: Make struct kthread kmalloc'ed") Signed-off-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Acked-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@oracle.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509073959.17858-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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