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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eric Dumazet
b490207017 watch_queue: Free the page array when watch_queue is dismantled
Commit 7ea1a0124b ("watch_queue: Free the alloc bitmap when the
watch_queue is torn down") took care of the bitmap, but not the page
array.

  BUG: memory leak
  unreferenced object 0xffff88810d9bc140 (size 32):
  comm "syz-executor335", pid 3603, jiffies 4294946994 (age 12.840s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    40 a7 40 04 00 ea ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @.@.............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
     kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:621 [inline]
     kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:652 [inline]
     watch_queue_set_size+0x12f/0x2e0 kernel/watch_queue.c:251
     pipe_ioctl+0x82/0x140 fs/pipe.c:632
     vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
     __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
     __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

Reported-by: syzbot+25ea042ae28f3888727a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322004654.618274-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-02 10:37:39 -07:00
David Howells
3d8dcf278b watch_queue: Actually free the watch
free_watch() does everything barring actually freeing the watch object.  Fix
this by adding the missing kfree.

kmemleak produces a report something like the following.  Note that as an
address can be seen in the first word, the watch would appear to have gone
through call_rcu().

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810ce4a200 (size 96):
  comm "syz-executor352", pid 3605, jiffies 4294947473 (age 13.720s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    e0 82 48 0d 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..H.............
    80 a2 e4 0c 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800
    [<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016
    [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
    [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
    [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+6e2de48f06cdb2884bfc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2022-03-21 12:48:32 +00:00
David Howells
a635415a06 watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup
In watch_queue_set_size(), the error cleanup code doesn't take account of
the fact that __free_page() can't handle a NULL pointer when trying to free
up buffer pages that did get allocated.

Fix this by only calling __free_page() on the pages actually allocated.

Without the fix, this can lead to something like the following:

BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473
Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor168/3599
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:446 [inline]
 kasan_report.cold+0x66/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline]
 page_ref_count include/linux/page_ref.h:67 [inline]
 put_page_testzero include/linux/mm.h:717 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473
 watch_queue_set_size+0x499/0x630 kernel/watch_queue.c:275
 pipe_ioctl+0xac/0x2b0 fs/pipe.c:632
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+d55757faa9b80590767b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
2022-03-21 12:43:47 +00:00
David Howells
4edc076041 watch_queue: Make comment about setting ->defunct more accurate
watch_queue_clear() has a comment stating that setting ->defunct to true
preventing new additions as well as preventing notifications.  Whilst
the latter is true, the first bit is superfluous since at the time this
function is called, the pipe cannot be accessed to add new event
sources.

Remove the "new additions" bit from the comment.

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:13 -08:00
David Howells
2ed147f015 watch_queue: Fix lack of barrier/sync/lock between post and read
There's nothing to synchronise post_one_notification() versus
pipe_read().  Whilst posting is done under pipe->rd_wait.lock, the
reader only takes pipe->mutex which cannot bar notification posting as
that may need to be made from contexts that cannot sleep.

Fix this by setting pipe->head with a barrier in post_one_notification()
and reading pipe->head with a barrier in pipe_read().

If that's not sufficient, the rd_wait.lock will need to be taken,
possibly in a ->confirm() op so that it only applies to notifications.
The lock would, however, have to be dropped before copy_page_to_iter()
is invoked.

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:13 -08:00
David Howells
7ea1a0124b watch_queue: Free the alloc bitmap when the watch_queue is torn down
Free the watch_queue note allocation bitmap when the watch_queue is
destroyed.

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:13 -08:00
David Howells
3b4c037192 watch_queue: Fix the alloc bitmap size to reflect notes allocated
Currently, watch_queue_set_size() sets the number of notes available in
wqueue->nr_notes according to the number of notes allocated, but sets
the size of the bitmap to the unrounded number of notes originally asked
for.

Fix this by setting the bitmap size to the number of notes we're
actually going to make available (ie. the number allocated).

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:12 -08:00
Christophe JAILLET
a66bd7575b watch_queue: Use the bitmap API when applicable
Use bitmap_alloc() to simplify code, improve the semantic and reduce
some open-coded arithmetic in allocator arguments.

Also change a memset(0xff) into an equivalent bitmap_fill() to keep
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:12 -08:00
David Howells
96a4d8912b watch_queue: Fix to always request a pow-of-2 pipe ring size
The pipe ring size must always be a power of 2 as the head and tail
pointers are masked off by AND'ing with the size of the ring - 1.
watch_queue_set_size(), however, lets you specify any number of notes
between 1 and 511.  This number is passed through to pipe_resize_ring()
without checking/forcing its alignment.

Fix this by rounding the number of slots required up to the nearest
power of two.  The request is meant to guarantee that at least that many
notifications can be generated before the queue is full, so rounding
down isn't an option, but, alternatively, it may be better to give an
error if we aren't allowed to allocate that much ring space.

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:12 -08:00
David Howells
c1853fbadc watch_queue: Fix to release page in ->release()
When a pipe ring descriptor points to a notification message, the
refcount on the backing page is incremented by the generic get function,
but the release function, which marks the bitmap, doesn't drop the page
ref.

Fix this by calling generic_pipe_buf_release() at the end of
watch_queue_pipe_buf_release().

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:12 -08:00
David Howells
c993ee0f9f watch_queue: Fix filter limit check
In watch_queue_set_filter(), there are a couple of places where we check
that the filter type value does not exceed what the type_filter bitmap
can hold.  One place calculates the number of bits by:

   if (tf[i].type >= sizeof(wfilter->type_filter) * 8)

which is fine, but the second does:

   if (tf[i].type >= sizeof(wfilter->type_filter) * BITS_PER_LONG)

which is not.  This can lead to a couple of out-of-bounds writes due to
a too-large type:

 (1) __set_bit() on wfilter->type_filter
 (2) Writing more elements in wfilter->filters[] than we allocated.

Fix this by just using the proper WATCH_TYPE__NR instead, which is the
number of types we actually know about.

The bug may cause an oops looking something like:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in watch_queue_set_filter+0x659/0x740
  Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800d2c66bc by task watch_queue_oob/611
  ...
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59
   print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x150
   ...
   kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b
   ...
   watch_queue_set_filter+0x659/0x740
   ...
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190
   do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

  Allocated by task 611:
   kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
   __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
   watch_queue_set_filter+0x23a/0x740
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190
   do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

  The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800d2c66a0
   which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32
  The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of
   32-byte region [ffff88800d2c66a0, ffff88800d2c66c0)

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11 10:17:12 -08:00
Lukas Bulwahn
8f0bfc25c9 watch_queue: rectify kernel-doc for init_watch()
The command './scripts/kernel-doc -none kernel/watch_queue.c'
reported a mismatch in the kernel-doc of init_watch().

Rectify the kernel-doc, such that no issues remain for watch_queue.c.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2021-01-26 11:16:34 +00:00
David Howells
29e44f4535 watch_queue: Limit the number of watches a user can hold
Impose a limit on the number of watches that a user can hold so that
they can't use this mechanism to fill up all the available memory.

This is done by putting a counter in user_struct that's incremented when
a watch is allocated and decreased when it is released.  If the number
exceeds the RLIMIT_NOFILE limit, the watch is rejected with EAGAIN.

This can be tested by the following means:

 (1) Create a watch queue and attach it to fd 5 in the program given - in
     this case, bash:

	keyctl watch_session /tmp/nlog /tmp/gclog 5 bash

 (2) In the shell, set the maximum number of files to, say, 99:

	ulimit -n 99

 (3) Add 200 keyrings:

	for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do keyctl newring a$i @s || break; done

 (4) Try to watch all of the keyrings:

	for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do echo $i; keyctl watch_add 5 %:a$i || break; done

     This should fail when the number of watches belonging to the user hits
     99.

 (5) Remove all the keyrings and all of those watches should go away:

	for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do keyctl unlink %:a$i; done

 (6) Kill off the watch queue by exiting the shell spawned by
     watch_session.

Fixes: c73be61ced ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-17 09:39:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6c32978414 Notifications over pipes + Keyring notifications
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Merge tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs

Pull notification queue from David Howells:
 "This adds a general notification queue concept and adds an event
  source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking keys and
  changing their attributes.

  Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to fix a
  problem with gnome-online-accounts - as mentioned last time:

     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/merge_requests/47

  Without this, g-o-a has to constantly poll a keyring-based kerberos
  cache to find out if kinit has changed anything.

  [ There are other notification pending: mount/sb fsinfo notifications
    for libmount that Karel Zak and Ian Kent have been working on, and
    Christian Brauner would like to use them in lxc, but let's see how
    this one works first ]

  LSM hooks are included:

   - A set of hooks are provided that allow an LSM to rule on whether or
     not a watch may be set. Each of these hooks takes a different
     "watched object" parameter, so they're not really shareable. The
     LSM should use current's credentials. [Wanted by SELinux & Smack]

   - A hook is provided to allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a
     particular message may be posted to a particular queue. This is
     given the credentials from the event generator (which may be the
     system) and the watch setter. [Wanted by Smack]

  I've provided SELinux and Smack with implementations of some of these
  hooks.

  WHY
  ===

  Key/keyring notifications are desirable because if you have your
  kerberos tickets in a file/directory, your Gnome desktop will monitor
  that using something like fanotify and tell you if your credentials
  cache changes.

  However, we also have the ability to cache your kerberos tickets in
  the session, user or persistent keyring so that it isn't left around
  on disk across a reboot or logout. Keyrings, however, cannot currently
  be monitored asynchronously, so the desktop has to poll for it - not
  so good on a laptop. This facility will allow the desktop to avoid the
  need to poll.

  DESIGN DECISIONS
  ================

   - The notification queue is built on top of a standard pipe. Messages
     are effectively spliced in. The pipe is opened with a special flag:

        pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);

     The special flag has the same value as O_EXCL (which doesn't seem
     like it will ever be applicable in this context)[?]. It is given up
     front to make it a lot easier to prohibit splice&co from accessing
     the pipe.

     [?] Should this be done some other way?  I'd rather not use up a new
         O_* flag if I can avoid it - should I add a pipe3() system call
         instead?

     The pipe is then configured::

        ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);
        ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER, &filter);

     Messages are then read out of the pipe using read().

   - It should be possible to allow write() to insert data into the
     notification pipes too, but this is currently disabled as the
     kernel has to be able to insert messages into the pipe *without*
     holding pipe->mutex and the code to make this work needs careful
     auditing.

   - sendfile(), splice() and vmsplice() are disabled on notification
     pipes because of the pipe->mutex issue and also because they
     sometimes want to revert what they just did - but one or more
     notification messages might've been interleaved in the ring.

   - The kernel inserts messages with the wait queue spinlock held. This
     means that pipe_read() and pipe_write() have to take the spinlock
     to update the queue pointers.

   - Records in the buffer are binary, typed and have a length so that
     they can be of varying size.

     This allows multiple heterogeneous sources to share a common
     buffer; there are 16 million types available, of which I've used
     just a few, so there is scope for others to be used. Tags may be
     specified when a watchpoint is created to help distinguish the
     sources.

   - Records are filterable as types have up to 256 subtypes that can be
     individually filtered. Other filtration is also available.

   - Notification pipes don't interfere with each other; each may be
     bound to a different set of watches. Any particular notification
     will be copied to all the queues that are currently watching for it
     - and only those that are watching for it.

   - When recording a notification, the kernel will not sleep, but will
     rather mark a queue as having lost a message if there's
     insufficient space. read() will fabricate a loss notification
     message at an appropriate point later.

   - The notification pipe is created and then watchpoints are attached
     to it, using one of:

        keyctl_watch_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, fds[1], 0x01);
        watch_mount(AT_FDCWD, "/", 0, fd, 0x02);
        watch_sb(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0, fd, 0x03);

     where in both cases, fd indicates the queue and the number after is
     a tag between 0 and 255.

   - Watches are removed if either the notification pipe is destroyed or
     the watched object is destroyed. In the latter case, a message will
     be generated indicating the enforced watch removal.

  Things I want to avoid:

   - Introducing features that make the core VFS dependent on the
     network stack or networking namespaces (ie. usage of netlink).

   - Dumping all this stuff into dmesg and having a daemon that sits
     there parsing the output and distributing it as this then puts the
     responsibility for security into userspace and makes handling
     namespaces tricky. Further, dmesg might not exist or might be
     inaccessible inside a container.

   - Letting users see events they shouldn't be able to see.

  TESTING AND MANPAGES
  ====================

   - The keyutils tree has a pipe-watch branch that has keyctl commands
     for making use of notifications. Proposed manual pages can also be
     found on this branch, though a couple of them really need to go to
     the main manpages repository instead.

     If the kernel supports the watching of keys, then running "make
     test" on that branch will cause the testing infrastructure to spawn
     a monitoring process on the side that monitors a notifications pipe
     for all the key/keyring changes induced by the tests and they'll
     all be checked off to make sure they happened.

        https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/log/?h=pipe-watch

   - A test program is provided (samples/watch_queue/watch_test) that
     can be used to monitor for keyrings, mount and superblock events.
     Information on the notifications is simply logged to stdout"

* tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks
  selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook
  keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask
  pipe: Add notification lossage handling
  pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications
  Add sample notification program
  watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility
  security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch
  pipe: Add general notification queue support
  pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE
  security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion
  uapi: General notification queue definitions
2020-06-13 09:56:21 -07:00
David Howells
e7d553d69c pipe: Add notification lossage handling
Add handling for loss of notifications by having read() insert a
loss-notification message after it has read the pipe buffer that was last
in the ring when the loss occurred.

Lossage can come about either by running out of notification descriptors or
by running out of space in the pipe ring.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19 15:40:28 +01:00
David Howells
8cfba76383 pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications
Allow a buffer to be marked such that read() must return the entire buffer
in one go or return ENOBUFS.  Multiple buffers can be amalgamated into a
single read, but a short read will occur if the next "whole" buffer won't
fit.

This is useful for watch queue notifications to make sure we don't split a
notification across multiple reads, especially given that we need to
fabricate an overrun record under some circumstances - and that isn't in
the buffers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19 15:38:18 +01:00
David Howells
c73be61ced pipe: Add general notification queue support
Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a
standard pipe.  Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read
out.  splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for
notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex.  This
means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe
buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect.

The way the notification queue is used is:

 (1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the
     number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can
     only be set once):

	pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);
	ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);

 (2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data
     from the pipe.  read() will return multiple notifications if the
     buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across
     buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE.

     Notification messages include a length in the header so that the
     caller can split them up.

Each message has a header that describes it:

	struct watch_notification {
		__u32	type:24;
		__u32	subtype:8;
		__u32	info;
	};

The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events,
keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event
type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink).  The info field
indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to
a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags.

Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be
attached in additional slots.  The maximum message size is 127 bytes.
Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for
example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19 15:08:24 +01:00