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authorRonny Chevalier <ronny.chevalier@hp.com>2018-07-11 15:39:37 +0300
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2018-07-18 18:43:36 +0300
commitbaa2a4fdd525c8c4b0f704d20457195b29437839 (patch)
tree3f84ac6375623358fb1bfe69fd3c97a51de7f169 /kernel/audit_watch.c
parent290e44b7dd116cc61cf37b7ca0be13313bb11e37 (diff)
downloadlinux-baa2a4fdd525c8c4b0f704d20457195b29437839.tar.xz
audit: fix use-after-free in audit_add_watch
audit_add_watch stores locally krule->watch without taking a reference on watch. Then, it calls audit_add_to_parent, and uses the watch stored locally. Unfortunately, it is possible that audit_add_to_parent updates krule->watch. When it happens, it also drops a reference of watch which could free the watch. How to reproduce (with KASAN enabled): auditctl -w /etc/passwd -F success=0 -k test_passwd auditctl -w /etc/passwd -F success=1 -k test_passwd2 The second call to auditctl triggers the use-after-free, because audit_to_parent updates krule->watch to use a previous existing watch and drops the reference to the newly created watch. To fix the issue, we grab a reference of watch and we release it at the end of the function. Signed-off-by: Ronny Chevalier <ronny.chevalier@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/audit_watch.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/audit_watch.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index 6f249bdf2d84..787c7afdf829 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -420,6 +420,13 @@ int audit_add_watch(struct audit_krule *krule, struct list_head **list)
struct path parent_path;
int h, ret = 0;
+ /*
+ * When we will be calling audit_add_to_parent, krule->watch might have
+ * been updated and watch might have been freed.
+ * So we need to keep a reference of watch.
+ */
+ audit_get_watch(watch);
+
mutex_unlock(&audit_filter_mutex);
/* Avoid calling path_lookup under audit_filter_mutex. */
@@ -428,8 +435,10 @@ int audit_add_watch(struct audit_krule *krule, struct list_head **list)
/* caller expects mutex locked */
mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ audit_put_watch(watch);
return ret;
+ }
/* either find an old parent or attach a new one */
parent = audit_find_parent(d_backing_inode(parent_path.dentry));
@@ -447,6 +456,7 @@ int audit_add_watch(struct audit_krule *krule, struct list_head **list)
*list = &audit_inode_hash[h];
error:
path_put(&parent_path);
+ audit_put_watch(watch);
return ret;
}