From: Elena Reshetova <[email protected]> atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)
Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable cred.usage is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. **Important note for maintainers: Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts.Please check Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst for more information. Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage. For the cred.usage it might make a difference in following places: - get_task_cred(): increment in refcount_inc_not_zero() only guarantees control dependency on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart - put_cred(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only provides RELEASE ordering and ACQUIRE ordering on success vs. fully ordered atomic counterpart Suggested-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> --- include/linux/cred.h | 8 ++++---- kernel/cred.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- net/sunrpc/auth.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index 32be0daf5a32..d624b91de095 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static inline int groups_search(const struct group_info *group_info, kgid_t grp) * same context as task->real_cred. */ struct cred { - atomic_t usage; + refcount_t usage; #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS atomic_t subscribers; /* number of processes subscribed */ void *put_addr; @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static inline bool cap_ambient_invariant_ok(const struct cred *cred) */ static inline struct cred *get_new_cred(struct cred *cred) { - atomic_inc(&cred->usage); + refcount_inc(&cred->usage); return cred; } @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static inline const struct cred *get_cred_rcu(const struct cred *cred) struct cred *nonconst_cred = (struct cred *) cred; if (!cred) return NULL; - if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&nonconst_cred->usage)) + if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&nonconst_cred->usage)) return NULL; validate_creds(cred); nonconst_cred->non_rcu = 0; @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static inline void put_cred(const struct cred *_cred) if (cred) { validate_creds(cred); - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage)) + if (refcount_dec_and_test(&(cred)->usage)) __put_cred(cred); } } diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index ed95117d07c4..efde7ded71d4 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct group_info init_groups = { .usage = REFCOUNT_INIT(2) }; * The initial credentials for the initial task */ struct cred init_cred = { - .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(4), + .usage = REFCOUNT_INIT(4), #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS .subscribers = ATOMIC_INIT(2), .magic = CRED_MAGIC, @@ -98,17 +98,17 @@ static void put_cred_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS if (cred->magic != CRED_MAGIC_DEAD || - atomic_read(&cred->usage) != 0 || + refcount_read(&cred->usage) != 0 || read_cred_subscribers(cred) != 0) panic("CRED: put_cred_rcu() sees %p with" " mag %x, put %p, usage %d, subscr %d\n", cred, cred->magic, cred->put_addr, - atomic_read(&cred->usage), + refcount_read(&cred->usage), read_cred_subscribers(cred)); #else - if (atomic_read(&cred->usage) != 0) + if (refcount_read(&cred->usage) != 0) panic("CRED: put_cred_rcu() sees %p with usage %d\n", - cred, atomic_read(&cred->usage)); + cred, refcount_read(&cred->usage)); #endif security_cred_free(cred); @@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ static void put_cred_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu) void __put_cred(struct cred *cred) { kdebug("__put_cred(%p{%d,%d})", cred, - atomic_read(&cred->usage), + refcount_read(&cred->usage), read_cred_subscribers(cred)); - BUG_ON(atomic_read(&cred->usage) != 0); + BUG_ON(refcount_read(&cred->usage) != 0); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS BUG_ON(read_cred_subscribers(cred) != 0); cred->magic = CRED_MAGIC_DEAD; @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ void exit_creds(struct task_struct *tsk) struct cred *cred; kdebug("exit_creds(%u,%p,%p,{%d,%d})", tsk->pid, tsk->real_cred, tsk->cred, - atomic_read(&tsk->cred->usage), + refcount_read(&tsk->cred->usage), read_cred_subscribers(tsk->cred)); cred = (struct cred *) tsk->real_cred; @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ struct cred *cred_alloc_blank(void) if (!new) return NULL; - atomic_set(&new->usage, 1); + refcount_set(&new->usage, 1); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS new->magic = CRED_MAGIC; #endif @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void) memcpy(new, old, sizeof(struct cred)); new->non_rcu = 0; - atomic_set(&new->usage, 1); + refcount_set(&new->usage, 1); set_cred_subscribers(new, 0); get_group_info(new->group_info); get_uid(new->user); @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags) get_cred(p->cred); alter_cred_subscribers(p->cred, 2); kdebug("share_creds(%p{%d,%d})", - p->cred, atomic_read(&p->cred->usage), + p->cred, refcount_read(&p->cred->usage), read_cred_subscribers(p->cred)); atomic_inc(&p->cred->user->processes); return 0; @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new) const struct cred *old = task->real_cred; kdebug("commit_creds(%p{%d,%d})", new, - atomic_read(&new->usage), + refcount_read(&new->usage), read_cred_subscribers(new)); BUG_ON(task->cred != old); @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new) validate_creds(old); validate_creds(new); #endif - BUG_ON(atomic_read(&new->usage) < 1); + BUG_ON(refcount_read(&new->usage) < 1); get_cred(new); /* we will require a ref for the subj creds too */ @@ -523,13 +523,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(commit_creds); void abort_creds(struct cred *new) { kdebug("abort_creds(%p{%d,%d})", new, - atomic_read(&new->usage), + refcount_read(&new->usage), read_cred_subscribers(new)); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS BUG_ON(read_cred_subscribers(new) != 0); #endif - BUG_ON(atomic_read(&new->usage) < 1); + BUG_ON(refcount_read(&new->usage) < 1); put_cred(new); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(abort_creds); @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *new) const struct cred *old = current->cred; kdebug("override_creds(%p{%d,%d})", new, - atomic_read(&new->usage), + refcount_read(&new->usage), read_cred_subscribers(new)); validate_creds(old); @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *new) alter_cred_subscribers(old, -1); kdebug("override_creds() = %p{%d,%d}", old, - atomic_read(&old->usage), + refcount_read(&old->usage), read_cred_subscribers(old)); return old; } @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ void revert_creds(const struct cred *old) const struct cred *override = current->cred; kdebug("revert_creds(%p{%d,%d})", old, - atomic_read(&old->usage), + refcount_read(&old->usage), read_cred_subscribers(old)); validate_creds(old); @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon) *new = *old; new->non_rcu = 0; - atomic_set(&new->usage, 1); + refcount_set(&new->usage, 1); set_cred_subscribers(new, 0); get_uid(new->user); get_user_ns(new->user_ns); @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ static void dump_invalid_creds(const struct cred *cred, const char *label, printk(KERN_ERR "CRED: ->magic=%x, put_addr=%p\n", cred->magic, cred->put_addr); printk(KERN_ERR "CRED: ->usage=%d, subscr=%d\n", - atomic_read(&cred->usage), + refcount_read(&cred->usage), read_cred_subscribers(cred)); printk(KERN_ERR "CRED: ->*uid = { %d,%d,%d,%d }\n", from_kuid_munged(&init_user_ns, cred->uid), @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ void validate_creds_for_do_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) { kdebug("validate_creds_for_do_exit(%p,%p{%d,%d})", tsk->real_cred, tsk->cred, - atomic_read(&tsk->cred->usage), + refcount_read(&tsk->cred->usage), read_cred_subscribers(tsk->cred)); __validate_process_creds(tsk, __FILE__, __LINE__); diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth.c b/net/sunrpc/auth.c index a9f0d17fdb0d..b2b7195536ae 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/auth.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(cred_unused); static unsigned long number_cred_unused; static struct cred machine_cred = { - .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(1), + .usage = REFCOUNT_INIT(1), #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS .magic = CRED_MAGIC, #endif -- 2.25.1
