2024-05-21 15:22:55
Linux
PUBLISHED
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/psi: Fix use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue()
If a non-root cgroup gets removed when there is a thread that registered
trigger and is polling on a pressure file within the cgroup, the polling
waitqueue gets freed in the following path:
do_rmdir
cgroup_rmdir
kernfs_drain_open_files
cgroup_file_release
cgroup_pressure_release
psi_trigger_destroy
However, the polling thread still has a reference to the pressure file and
will access the freed waitqueue when the file is closed or upon exit:
fput
ep_eventpoll_release
ep_free
ep_remove_wait_queue
remove_wait_queue
This results in use-after-free as pasted below.
The fundamental problem here is that cgroup_file_release() (and
consequently waitqueues lifetime) is not tied to the files real lifetime.
Using wake_up_pollfree() here might be less than ideal, but it is in line
with the comment at commit 42288cb44c4b ("wait: add wake_up_pollfree()")
since the waitqueues lifetime is not tied to files one and can be
considered as another special case. While this would be fixable by somehow
making cgroup_file_release() be tied to the fput(), it would require
sizable refactoring at cgroups or higher layer which might be more
justifiable if we identify more cases like this.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x60/0xc0
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88810e625328 by task a.out/4404
CPU: 19 PID: 4404 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6 #38
Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5a.8xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
Call Trace: