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memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control()
authorTejun Heo <[email protected]>
Thu, 8 Dec 2022 02:53:15 +0000 (16:53 -1000)
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>
Sat, 10 Dec 2022 02:41:17 +0000 (18:41 -0800)
commit4a7ba45b1a435e7097ca0f79a847d0949d0eb088
tree4b41db7b9cb39d1f15c5accb1bdbb33d7b1d65b0
parenta501788ab2603d97c41e8cda59cd74b72c29951f
memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control()

memcg_write_event_control() accesses the dentry->d_name of the specified
control fd to route the write call.  As a cgroup interface file can't be
renamed, it's safe to access d_name as long as the specified file is a
regular cgroup file.  Also, as these cgroup interface files can't be
removed before the directory, it's safe to access the parent too.

Prior to 347c4a874710 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft"), there was a
call to __file_cft() which verified that the specified file is a regular
cgroupfs file before further accesses.  The cftype pointer returned from
__file_cft() was no longer necessary and the commit inadvertently dropped
the file type check with it allowing any file to slip through.  With the
invarients broken, the d_name and parent accesses can now race against
renames and removals of arbitrary files and cause use-after-free's.

Fix the bug by resurrecting the file type check in __file_cft().  Now that
cgroupfs is implemented through kernfs, checking the file operations needs
to go through a layer of indirection.  Instead, let's check the superblock
and dentry type.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5FRm/[email protected]
Fixes: 347c4a874710 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [3.14+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h
mm/memcontrol.c
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