Vulnerability CVE-2024-41058

Vulnerability CVE-2024-41058

Published: 2024-07-29

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume()

We got the following issue in our fault injection stress test:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume+0x2e1/0x370
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810680be08 by task ondemand-04-dae/5798

CPU: 0 PID: 5798 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-dirty #565
Call Trace:
kasan_check_range+0xf6/0x1b0
fscache_withdraw_volume+0x2e1/0x370
cachefiles_withdraw_volume+0x31/0x50
cachefiles_withdraw_cache+0x3ad/0x900
cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount+0x1f6/0x250
cachefiles_daemon_release+0x13b/0x290
__fput+0x204/0xa00
task_work_run+0x139/0x230

Allocated by task 5820:
__kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0
fscache_alloc_volume+0x70/0x600
__fscache_acquire_volume+0x1c/0x610
erofs_fscache_register_volume+0x96/0x1a0
erofs_fscache_register_fs+0x49a/0x690
erofs_fc_fill_super+0x6c0/0xcc0
vfs_get_super+0xa9/0x140
vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300
do_new_mount+0x28c/0x580
[...]

Freed by task 5820:
kfree+0xf1/0x2c0
fscache_put_volume.part.0+0x5cb/0x9e0
erofs_fscache_unregister_fs+0x157/0x1b0
erofs_kill_sb+0xd9/0x1c0
deactivate_locked_super+0xa3/0x100
vfs_get_super+0x105/0x140
vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300
do_new_mount+0x28c/0x580
[...]
==================================================================

Following is the process that triggers the issue:

mount failed | daemon exit
------------------------------------------------------------
deactivate_locked_super cachefiles_daemon_release
erofs_kill_sb
erofs_fscache_unregister_fs
fscache_relinquish_volume
__fscache_relinquish_volume
fscache_put_volume(fscache_volume, fscache_volume_put_relinquish)
zero = __refcount_dec_and_test(&fscache_volume->ref, &ref);
cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount
cachefiles_daemon_unbind
cachefiles_withdraw_cache
cachefiles_withdraw_volumes
list_del_init(&volume->cache_link)
fscache_free_volume(fscache_volume)
cache->ops->free_volume
cachefiles_free_volume
list_del_init(&cachefiles_volume->cache_link);
kfree(fscache_volume)
cachefiles_withdraw_volume
fscache_withdraw_volume
fscache_volume->n_accesses
// fscache_volume UAF !!!

The fscache_volume in cache->volumes must not have been freed yet, but its
reference count may be 0. So use the new fscache_try_get_volume() helper
function try to get its reference count.

If the reference count of fscache_volume is 0, fscache_put_volume() is
freeing it, so wait for it to be removed from cache->volumes.

If its reference count is not 0, call cachefiles_withdraw_volume() with
reference count protection to avoid the above issue.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f17e47f1e209c6a3c92a1d038a0a80c95c460e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dd7f5663899ea13a6a73216106d9c13c37453e3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38b88d544216f806d93a273a62ff8ebe82254003

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/522018a0de6b6fcce60c04f86dfc5f0e4b6a1b36

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