Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.3] mailbox: mailbox-test: Fix potential double-free in mbox_test_message_write()

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 19 May 2023, Sasha Levin wrote:

> From: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 2d1e952a2b8e5e92d8d55ac88a7cf7ca5ea591ad ]
> 
> If a user can make copy_from_user() fail, there is a potential for
> UAF/DF due to a lack of locking around the allocation, use and freeing
> of the data buffers.
> 
> This issue is not theoretical.  I managed to author a POC for it:
> 
>     BUG: KASAN: double-free in kfree+0x5c/0xac
>     Free of addr ffff29280be5de00 by task poc/356
>     CPU: 1 PID: 356 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.1.0-00001-g961aa6552c04-dirty #20
>     Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
>     Call trace:
>      dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0
>      show_stack+0x18/0x40
>      dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80
>      print_report+0x188/0x48c
>      kasan_report_invalid_free+0xa0/0xc0
>      ____kasan_slab_free+0x174/0x1b0
>      __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x24
>      __kmem_cache_free+0x130/0x2e0
>      kfree+0x5c/0xac
>      mbox_test_message_write+0x208/0x29c
>      full_proxy_write+0x90/0xf0
>      vfs_write+0x154/0x440
>      ksys_write+0xcc/0x180
>      __arm64_sys_write+0x44/0x60
>      invoke_syscall+0x60/0x190
>      el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x160
>      do_el0_svc+0x40/0xf0
>      el0_svc+0x2c/0x6c
>      el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120
>      el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
> 
>     Allocated by task 356:
>      kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70
>      kasan_set_track+0x2c/0x40
>      kasan_save_alloc_info+0x24/0x34
>      __kasan_kmalloc+0xb8/0xc0
>      kmalloc_trace+0x58/0x70
>      mbox_test_message_write+0x6c/0x29c
>      full_proxy_write+0x90/0xf0
>      vfs_write+0x154/0x440
>      ksys_write+0xcc/0x180
>      __arm64_sys_write+0x44/0x60
>      invoke_syscall+0x60/0x190
>      el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x160
>      do_el0_svc+0x40/0xf0
>      el0_svc+0x2c/0x6c
>      el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120
>      el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
> 
>     Freed by task 357:
>      kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70
>      kasan_set_track+0x2c/0x40
>      kasan_save_free_info+0x38/0x5c
>      ____kasan_slab_free+0x13c/0x1b0
>      __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x24
>      __kmem_cache_free+0x130/0x2e0
>      kfree+0x5c/0xac
>      mbox_test_message_write+0x208/0x29c
>      full_proxy_write+0x90/0xf0
>      vfs_write+0x154/0x440
>      ksys_write+0xcc/0x180
>      __arm64_sys_write+0x44/0x60
>      invoke_syscall+0x60/0x190
>      el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x160
>      do_el0_svc+0x40/0xf0
>      el0_svc+0x2c/0x6c
>      el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120
>      el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Could you ensure the follow-up patch is also applied to all branches please?

  8fe72b76db79d mailbox: mailbox-test: fix a locking issue in mbox_test_message_write()

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]