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mm: lock_vma_under_rcu() must check vma->anon_vma under vma lock
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lock_vma_under_rcu() tries to guarantee that __anon_vma_prepare() can't
be called in the VMA-locked page fault path by ensuring that
vma->anon_vma is set.

However, this check happens before the VMA is locked, which means a
concurrent move_vma() can concurrently call unlink_anon_vmas(), which
disassociates the VMA's anon_vma.

This means we can get UAF in the following scenario:

  THREAD 1                   THREAD 2
  ========                   ========
  <page fault>
    lock_vma_under_rcu()
      rcu_read_lock()
      mas_walk()
      check vma->anon_vma

                             mremap() syscall
                               move_vma()
                                vma_start_write()
                                 unlink_anon_vmas()
                             <syscall end>

    handle_mm_fault()
      __handle_mm_fault()
        handle_pte_fault()
          do_pte_missing()
            do_anonymous_page()
              anon_vma_prepare()
                __anon_vma_prepare()
                  find_mergeable_anon_vma()
                    mas_walk() [looks up VMA X]

                             munmap() syscall (deletes VMA X)

                    reusable_anon_vma() [called on freed VMA X]

This is a security bug if you can hit it, although an attacker would
have to win two races at once where the first race window is only a few
instructions wide.

This patch is based on some previous discussion with Linus Torvalds on
the security list.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5e31275 ("mm: add per-VMA lock and helper functions to control it")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jann Horn authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 27, 2023
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28 changes: 16 additions & 12 deletions mm/memory.c
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Expand Up @@ -5393,27 +5393,28 @@ struct vm_area_struct *lock_vma_under_rcu(struct mm_struct *mm,
if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma) && !vma_is_tcp(vma))
goto inval;

/* find_mergeable_anon_vma uses adjacent vmas which are not locked */
if (!vma->anon_vma && !vma_is_tcp(vma))
goto inval;

if (!vma_start_read(vma))
goto inval;

/*
* find_mergeable_anon_vma uses adjacent vmas which are not locked.
* This check must happen after vma_start_read(); otherwise, a
* concurrent mremap() with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP could dissociate the VMA
* from its anon_vma.
*/
if (unlikely(!vma->anon_vma && !vma_is_tcp(vma)))
goto inval_end_read;

/*
* Due to the possibility of userfault handler dropping mmap_lock, avoid
* it for now and fall back to page fault handling under mmap_lock.
*/
if (userfaultfd_armed(vma)) {
vma_end_read(vma);
goto inval;
}
if (userfaultfd_armed(vma))
goto inval_end_read;

/* Check since vm_start/vm_end might change before we lock the VMA */
if (unlikely(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end)) {
vma_end_read(vma);
goto inval;
}
if (unlikely(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end))
goto inval_end_read;

/* Check if the VMA got isolated after we found it */
if (vma->detached) {
Expand All @@ -5425,6 +5426,9 @@ struct vm_area_struct *lock_vma_under_rcu(struct mm_struct *mm,

rcu_read_unlock();
return vma;

inval_end_read:
vma_end_read(vma);
inval:
rcu_read_unlock();
count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_ABORT);
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