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

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Aug 17 10:33:08 PDT 2022


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.

Fixes: 4149be7bda7e ("fs/lock: Don't allocate file_lock in flock_make_lock().")
cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu at amazon.com>
cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---

 fs/locks.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index c266cfdc3291..f2d5aca782c6 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -2116,7 +2116,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(flock, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, cmd)
 
 	error = security_file_lock(f.file, fl.fl_type);
 	if (error)
-		goto out_putf;
+		goto out_release;
 
 	can_sleep = !(cmd & LOCK_NB);
 	if (can_sleep)
@@ -2128,7 +2128,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(flock, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, cmd)
 					    &fl);
 	else
 		error = locks_lock_file_wait(f.file, &fl);
-
+out_release:
+	locks_release_private(&fl);
  out_putf:
 	fdput(f);
 





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