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authorSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>2022-01-11 15:23:09 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-02-05 12:35:36 +0100
commit2fd752ed77ab9880da927257b73294f29a199f1a (patch)
tree7eafa0ec61a030905e46796f16cd776bafbbfcf0 /Documentation/accounting
parent464da38ba827f670deac6500a1de9a4f0f44c41d (diff)
psi: Fix uaf issue when psi trigger is destroyed while being polled
commit a06247c6804f1a7c86a2e5398a4c1f1db1471848 upstream. With write operation on psi files replacing old trigger with a new one, the lifetime of its waitqueue is totally arbitrary. Overwriting an existing trigger causes its waitqueue to be freed and pending poll() will stumble on trigger->event_wait which was destroyed. Fix this by disallowing to redefine an existing psi trigger. If a write operation is used on a file descriptor with an already existing psi trigger, the operation will fail with EBUSY error. Also bypass a check for psi_disabled in the psi_trigger_destroy as the flag can be flipped after the trigger is created, leading to a memory leak. Fixes: 0e94682b73bf ("psi: introduce psi monitor") Reported-by: syzbot+cdb5dd11c97cc532efad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Analyzed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220111232309.1786347-1-surenb@google.com [surenb: backported to 5.4 kernel] CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4 Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst b/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst
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@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ Triggers can be set on more than one psi metric and more than one trigger
for the same psi metric can be specified. However for each trigger a separate
file descriptor is required to be able to poll it separately from others,
therefore for each trigger a separate open() syscall should be made even
-when opening the same psi interface file.
+when opening the same psi interface file. Write operations to a file descriptor
+with an already existing psi trigger will fail with EBUSY.
Monitors activate only when system enters stall state for the monitored
psi metric and deactivates upon exit from the stall state. While system is