Re: [PATCH v2] locks: Fix dropped call to ->fl_release_private()

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Wed Aug 17 2022 - 14:43:05 EST


On Wed, 2022-08-17 at 19:41 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Prior to commit 4149be7bda7e, sys_flock() would allocate the file_lock
> struct it was going to use to pass parameters, call ->flock() and then call
> locks_free_lock() to get rid of it - which had the side effect of calling
> locks_release_private() and thus ->fl_release_private().
>
> With commit 4149be7bda7e, however, this is no longer the case: the struct
> is now allocated on the stack, and locks_free_lock() is no longer called -
> and thus any remaining private data doesn't get cleaned up either.
>
> This causes afs flock to cause oops. Kasan catches this as a UAF by the
> list_del_init() in afs_fl_release_private() for the file_lock record
> produced by afs_fl_copy_lock() as the original record didn't get delisted.
> It can be reproduced using the generic/504 xfstest.
>
> Fix this by reinstating the locks_release_private() call in sys_flock().
> I'm not sure if this would affect any other filesystems. If not, then the
> release could be done in afs_flock() instead.
>
> Changes
> =======
> ver #2)
> - Don't need to call ->fl_release_private() after calling the security
> hook, only after calling ->flock().
>
> Fixes: 4149be7bda7e ("fs/lock: Don't allocate file_lock in flock_make_lock().")
> cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166075758809.3532462.13307935588777587536.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ # v1
> ---
>
> fs/locks.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index c266cfdc3291..607f94a0e789 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -2129,6 +2129,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(flock, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, cmd)
> else
> error = locks_lock_file_wait(f.file, &fl);
>
> + locks_release_private(&fl);
> out_putf:
> fdput(f);
>
>
>

Looks good. I'll get this into -next and plan to get it up to Linus
soon.

Thanks!
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>