[PATCH -next] jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Wed Mar 16 15:01:09 PDT 2022


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> Betreff: Re: [PATCH -next] jffs2: fix use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem

> A gentle ping, sorry for the noise.
> 
> 在 2021/12/28 20:54, Baokun Li 写道:
>> When we mount a jffs2 image, assume that the first few blocks of
>> the image are normal and contain at least one xattr-related inode,
>> but the next block is abnormal. As a result, an error is returned
>> in jffs2_scan_eraseblock(). jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() is then
>> called in jffs2_build_filesystem() and then again in
>> jffs2_do_fill_super().
>>
>> Finally we can observe the following report:
>>   ==================================================================
>>   BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
>>   Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881243384e0 by task mount/719
>>
>>   Call Trace:
>>    dump_stack+0x115/0x16b
>>    jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0x95/0x6ac
>>    jffs2_do_fill_super+0x84f/0xc30
>>    jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
>>    mtd_get_sb+0x254/0x400
>>    mtd_get_sb_by_nr+0x4f/0xd0
>>    get_tree_mtd+0x498/0x840
>>    jffs2_get_tree+0x25/0x30
>>    vfs_get_tree+0x8d/0x2e0
>>    path_mount+0x50f/0x1e50
>>    do_mount+0x107/0x130
>>    __se_sys_mount+0x1c5/0x2f0
>>    __x64_sys_mount+0xc7/0x160
>>    do_syscall_64+0x45/0x70
>>    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>>
>>   Allocated by task 719:
>>    kasan_save_stack+0x23/0x60
>>    __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x10b/0x120
>>    kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20
>>    kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c0/0x870
>>    jffs2_alloc_xattr_ref+0x2f/0xa0
>>    jffs2_scan_medium.cold+0x3713/0x4794
>>    jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0xa7/0x2253
>>    jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
>>    jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
>>   [...]
>>
>>   Freed by task 719:
>>    kmem_cache_free+0xcc/0x7b0
>>    jffs2_free_xattr_ref+0x78/0x98
>>    jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem+0xa1/0x6ac
>>    jffs2_do_mount_fs.cold+0x5e6/0x2253
>>    jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30
>>    jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0
>>   [...]
>>
>>   The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881243384b8
>>    which belongs to the cache jffs2_xattr_ref of size 48
>>   The buggy address is located 40 bytes inside of
>>    48-byte region [ffff8881243384b8, ffff8881243384e8)
>>   [...]
>>   ==================================================================
>>
>> The triggering of the BUG is shown in the following stack:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> jffs2_fill_super
>>    jffs2_do_fill_super
>>      jffs2_do_mount_fs
>>        jffs2_build_filesystem
>>          jffs2_scan_medium
>>            jffs2_scan_eraseblock        <--- ERROR
>>          jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem    <--- free
>>      jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem        <--- free again
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> An error is returned in jffs2_do_mount_fs(). If the error is returned
>> by jffs2_sum_init(), the jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() does not need to
>> be executed. If the error is returned by jffs2_build_filesystem(), the
>> jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() also does not need to be executed again.
>> So move jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem() from 'out_inohash' to 'out_root'
>> to fix this UAF problem.
>>
>> Fixes: aa98d7cf59b5 ("[JFFS2][XATTR] XATTR support on JFFS2 (version. 5)")
>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci at huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1 at huawei.com>

Applied. Thanks for fixing!

Thanks,
//richard



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