Please drop this from -stable -- it's part of a larger refactoring that shouldn't be backported without explicit effort/testing.
-Kees
On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 06:14:20PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Christian Brauner christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
[ Upstream commit 1c5976ef0f7ad76319df748ccb99a4c7ba2ba464 ]
Currently, registering a new binary type pins the binfmt_misc filesystem. Specifically, this means that as long as there is at least one binary type registered the binfmt_misc filesystem survives all umounts, i.e. the superblock is not destroyed. Meaning that a umount followed by another mount will end up with the same superblock and the same binary type handlers. This is a behavior we tend to discourage for any new filesystems (apart from a few special filesystems such as e.g. configfs or debugfs). A umount operation without the filesystem being pinned - by e.g. someone holding a file descriptor to an open file - should usually result in the destruction of the superblock and all associated resources. This makes introspection easier and leads to clearly defined, simple and clean semantics. An administrator can rely on the fact that a umount will guarantee a clean slate making it possible to reinitialize a filesystem. Right now all binary types would need to be explicitly deleted before that can happen.
This allows us to remove the heavy-handed calls to simple_pin_fs() and simple_release_fs() when creating and deleting binary types. This in turn allows us to replace the current brittle pinning mechanism abusing dget() which has caused a range of bugs judging from prior fixes in [2] and [3]. The additional dget() in load_misc_binary() pins the dentry but only does so for the sake to prevent ->evict_inode() from freeing the node when a user removes the binary type and kill_node() is run. Which would mean ->interpreter and ->interp_file would be freed causing a UAF.
This isn't really nicely documented nor is it very clean because it relies on simple_pin_fs() pinning the filesystem as long as at least one binary type exists. Otherwise it would cause load_misc_binary() to hold on to a dentry belonging to a superblock that has been shutdown. Replace that implicit pinning with a clean and simple per-node refcount and get rid of the ugly dget() pinning. A similar mechanism exists for e.g. binderfs (cf. [4]). All the cleanup work can now be done in ->evict_inode().
In a follow-up patch we will make it possible to use binfmt_misc in sandboxes. We will use the cleaner semantics where a umount for the filesystem will cause the superblock and all resources to be deallocated. In preparation for this apply the same semantics to the initial binfmt_misc mount. Note, that this is a user-visible change and as such a uapi change but one that we can reasonably risk. We've discussed this in earlier versions of this patchset (cf. [1]).
The main user and provider of binfmt_misc is systemd. Systemd provides binfmt_misc via autofs since it is configurable as a kernel module and is used by a few exotic packages and users. As such a binfmt_misc mount is triggered when /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is accessed and is only provided on demand. Other autofs on demand filesystems include EFI ESP which systemd umounts if the mountpoint stays idle for a certain amount of time. This doesn't apply to the binfmt_misc autofs mount which isn't touched once it is mounted meaning this change can't accidently wipe binary type handlers without someone having explicitly unmounted binfmt_misc. After speaking to systemd folks they don't expect this change to affect them.
In line with our general policy, if we see a regression for systemd or other users with this change we will switch back to the old behavior for the initial binfmt_misc mount and have binary types pin the filesystem again. But while we touch this code let's take the chance and let's improve on the status quo.
[2]: commit 43a4f2619038 ("exec: binfmt_misc: fix race between load_misc_binary() and kill_node()" [3]: commit 83f918274e4b ("exec: binfmt_misc: shift filp_close(interp_file) from kill_node() to bm_evict_inode()") [4]: commit f0fe2c0f050d ("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-1-brauner@kernel.org (v1) Cc: Sargun Dhillon sargun@sargun.me Cc: Serge Hallyn serge@hallyn.com Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Henning Schild henning.schild@siemens.com Cc: Andrei Vagin avagin@gmail.com Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Laurent Vivier laurent@vivier.eu Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Serge Hallyn serge@hallyn.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org
/* v2 */
- Christian Brauner christian.brauner@ubuntu.com:
- Add more comments that explain what's going on.
- Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are doing to make the code easier to understand.
- In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction. That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger guarantees to the user.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
fs/binfmt_misc.c | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 168 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c index e0108d17b085c..cf5ed5cd4102d 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c @@ -60,12 +60,11 @@ typedef struct { char *name; struct dentry *dentry; struct file *interp_file;
- refcount_t users; /* sync removal with load_misc_binary() */
} Node; static DEFINE_RWLOCK(entries_lock); static struct file_system_type bm_fs_type; -static struct vfsmount *bm_mnt; -static int entry_count; /*
- Max length of the register string. Determined by:
@@ -82,19 +81,23 @@ static int entry_count; */ #define MAX_REGISTER_LENGTH 1920 -/*
- Check if we support the binfmt
- if we do, return the node, else NULL
- locking is done in load_misc_binary
+/**
- search_binfmt_handler - search for a binary handler for @bprm
- @misc: handle to binfmt_misc instance
- @bprm: binary for which we are looking for a handler
- Search for a binary type handler for @bprm in the list of registered binary
- type handlers.
*/
- Return: binary type list entry on success, NULL on failure
-static Node *check_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm) +static Node *search_binfmt_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm) { char *p = strrchr(bprm->interp, '.');
- struct list_head *l;
- Node *e;
/* Walk all the registered handlers. */
- list_for_each(l, &entries) {
Node *e = list_entry(l, Node, list);
- list_for_each_entry(e, &entries, list) { char *s; int j;
@@ -123,9 +126,49 @@ static Node *check_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm) if (j == e->size) return e; }
- return NULL;
} +/**
- get_binfmt_handler - try to find a binary type handler
- @misc: handle to binfmt_misc instance
- @bprm: binary for which we are looking for a handler
- Try to find a binfmt handler for the binary type. If one is found take a
- reference to protect against removal via bm_{entry,status}_write().
- Return: binary type list entry on success, NULL on failure
- */
+static Node *get_binfmt_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm) +{
- Node *e;
- read_lock(&entries_lock);
- e = search_binfmt_handler(bprm);
- if (e)
refcount_inc(&e->users);- read_unlock(&entries_lock);
- return e;
+}
+/**
- put_binfmt_handler - put binary handler node
- @e: node to put
- Free node syncing with load_misc_binary() and defer final free to
- load_misc_binary() in case it is using the binary type handler we were
- requested to remove.
- */
+static void put_binfmt_handler(Node *e) +{
- if (refcount_dec_and_test(&e->users)) {
if (e->flags & MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE)filp_close(e->interp_file, NULL);kfree(e);- }
+}
/*
- the loader itself
*/ @@ -139,12 +182,7 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) if (!enabled) return retval;
- /* to keep locking time low, we copy the interpreter string */
- read_lock(&entries_lock);
- fmt = check_file(bprm);
- if (fmt)
dget(fmt->dentry);- read_unlock(&entries_lock);
- fmt = get_binfmt_handler(bprm); if (!fmt) return retval;
@@ -198,7 +236,16 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) retval = 0; ret:
- dput(fmt->dentry);
- /*
* If we actually put the node here all concurrent calls to* load_misc_binary() will have finished. We also know* that for the refcount to be zero ->evict_inode() must have removed* the node to be deleted from the list. All that is left for us is to* close and free.*/- put_binfmt_handler(fmt);
- return retval;
} @@ -552,30 +599,90 @@ static struct inode *bm_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode) return inode; } +/**
- bm_evict_inode - cleanup data associated with @inode
- @inode: inode to which the data is attached
- Cleanup the binary type handler data associated with @inode if a binary type
- entry is removed or the filesystem is unmounted and the super block is
- shutdown.
- If the ->evict call was not caused by a super block shutdown but by a write
- to remove the entry or all entries via bm_{entry,status}_write() the entry
- will have already been removed from the list. We keep the list_empty() check
- to make that explicit.
+*/ static void bm_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) { Node *e = inode->i_private;
- if (e && e->flags & MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE)
filp_close(e->interp_file, NULL);- clear_inode(inode);
- kfree(e);
- if (e) {
write_lock(&entries_lock);if (!list_empty(&e->list))list_del_init(&e->list);write_unlock(&entries_lock);put_binfmt_handler(e);- }
} -static void kill_node(Node *e) +/**
- unlink_binfmt_dentry - remove the dentry for the binary type handler
- @dentry: dentry associated with the binary type handler
- Do the actual filesystem work to remove a dentry for a registered binary
- type handler. Since binfmt_misc only allows simple files to be created
- directly under the root dentry of the filesystem we ensure that we are
- indeed passed a dentry directly beneath the root dentry, that the inode
- associated with the root dentry is locked, and that it is a regular file we
- are asked to remove.
- */
+static void unlink_binfmt_dentry(struct dentry *dentry) {
- struct dentry *dentry;
- struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
- struct inode *inode, *parent_inode;
- /* All entries are immediate descendants of the root dentry. */
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(dentry->d_sb->s_root != parent))
return;
- /* We only expect to be called on regular files. */
- inode = d_inode(dentry);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)))
return;- /* The parent inode must be locked. */
- parent_inode = d_inode(parent);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!inode_is_locked(parent_inode)))
return;- if (simple_positive(dentry)) {
dget(dentry);simple_unlink(parent_inode, dentry);d_delete(dentry);dput(dentry);- }
+}
+/**
- remove_binfmt_handler - remove a binary type handler
- @misc: handle to binfmt_misc instance
- @e: binary type handler to remove
- Remove a binary type handler from the list of binary type handlers and
- remove its associated dentry. This is called from
- binfmt_{entry,status}_write(). In the future, we might want to think about
- adding a proper ->unlink() method to binfmt_misc instead of forcing caller's
- to use writes to files in order to delete binary type handlers. But it has
- worked for so long that it's not a pressing issue.
- */
+static void remove_binfmt_handler(Node *e) +{ write_lock(&entries_lock); list_del_init(&e->list); write_unlock(&entries_lock);
- dentry = e->dentry;
- drop_nlink(d_inode(dentry));
- d_drop(dentry);
- dput(dentry);
- simple_release_fs(&bm_mnt, &entry_count);
- unlink_binfmt_dentry(e->dentry);
} /* /<entry> */ @@ -602,8 +709,8 @@ bm_entry_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t *ppos) static ssize_t bm_entry_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) {
- struct dentry *root;
- Node *e = file_inode(file)->i_private;
- struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
- Node *e = inode->i_private; int res = parse_command(buffer, count);
switch (res) { @@ -617,13 +724,22 @@ static ssize_t bm_entry_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, break; case 3: /* Delete this handler. */
root = file_inode(file)->i_sb->s_root;inode_lock(d_inode(root));
inode = d_inode(inode->i_sb->s_root);inode_lock(inode);
/** In order to add new element or remove elements from the list* via bm_{entry,register,status}_write() inode_lock() on the* root inode must be held.* The lock is exclusive ensuring that the list can't be* modified. Only load_misc_binary() can access but does so* read-only. So we only need to take the write lock when we* actually remove the entry from the list.*/
kill_node(e);
remove_binfmt_handler(e);
inode_unlock(d_inode(root));
inode_unlock(inode);@@ -682,13 +798,7 @@ static ssize_t bm_register_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, if (!inode) goto out2;
- err = simple_pin_fs(&bm_fs_type, &bm_mnt, &entry_count);
- if (err) {
iput(inode);inode = NULL;goto out2;- }
- refcount_set(&e->users, 1); e->dentry = dget(dentry); inode->i_private = e; inode->i_fop = &bm_entry_operations;
@@ -732,7 +842,8 @@ static ssize_t bm_status_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { int res = parse_command(buffer, count);
- struct dentry *root;
- Node *e, *next;
- struct inode *inode;
switch (res) { case 1: @@ -745,13 +856,22 @@ static ssize_t bm_status_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, break; case 3: /* Delete all handlers. */
root = file_inode(file)->i_sb->s_root;inode_lock(d_inode(root));
inode = d_inode(file_inode(file)->i_sb->s_root);inode_lock(inode);
while (!list_empty(&entries))kill_node(list_first_entry(&entries, Node, list));
/** In order to add new element or remove elements from the list* via bm_{entry,register,status}_write() inode_lock() on the* root inode must be held.* The lock is exclusive ensuring that the list can't be* modified. Only load_misc_binary() can access but does so* read-only. So we only need to take the write lock when we* actually remove the entry from the list.*/list_for_each_entry_safe(e, next, &entries, list)remove_binfmt_handler(e);
inode_unlock(d_inode(root));
inode_unlock(inode);-- 2.42.0