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authorBinbin Deng <18983559317@163.com>2026-09-23 13:46:23 +0800
committerJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2026-10-29 08:30:53 -0700
commitf292873ceb4bd3a1a0f75f884361cd556e457692 (patch)
tree0115dfea50acc4a1ac8c03cd9eab0aea26a52f49 /security
parent8f1f7f664c1822af34c5465f9820b4e39146786b (diff)
apparmor: fix a use-after-free in aa_lookupn_ns()
aa_lookupn_ns() takes a reference on the namespace it finds with aa_get_ns(), which is kref_get() on the reference count that the namespace is released through, without checking whether the namespace is still in use. A concurrent removal of a ":"-prefixed namespace looks the same namespace up and only then takes the parent lock to remove it, so the last reference can be dropped between the lookup and the aa_get_ns() call: the reference count then reports the increment on a zero count and the kernel classifies the following use of the object as a use-after-free. A user with CAP_MAC_ADMIN can trigger this by writing a ":<name>" removal and a ":<name>/<profile>" removal to /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove concurrently. refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free. WARNING: lib/refcount.c:25 at refcount_warn_saturate+0xc0/0xe0, CPU#6 Call Trace: <TASK> aa_lookupn_ns+0xa9/0xc0 aa_remove_profiles+0x4fb/0x730 ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x219/0x5c0 ? __pfx_aa_remove_profiles+0x10/0x10 ? aa_loaddata_alloc+0x65/0x1f0 ? _copy_from_user+0x2d/0x80 ? aa_loaddata_alloc+0x111/0x1f0 profile_remove+0x2ee/0x4a0 vfs_write+0x21e/0xcf0 ? rcu_core+0x29c/0x1740 ? timerqueue_linked_add+0x1f4/0x3d0 ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10 ? mutex_lock+0x81/0xe0 ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_rcu_core+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_hrtimer_update_next_event+0x10/0x10 ? mutex_unlock+0x7b/0xd0 ? fdget_pos+0x24d/0x4b0 ksys_write+0xf7/0x1c0 ? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10 ? restore_fpregs_from_fpstate+0x37/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f </TASK> Fix by rejecting a namespace whose reference count is zero. Fixes: 3664268f19ea0 ("apparmor: add namespace lookup fns()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Binbin Deng <18983559317@163.com> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/include/policy_ns.h16
-rw-r--r--security/apparmor/policy_ns.c2
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/policy_ns.h b/security/apparmor/include/policy_ns.h
index cc6e84151812..4f8359875476 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/policy_ns.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/policy_ns.h
@@ -118,6 +118,22 @@ static inline struct aa_ns *aa_get_ns(struct aa_ns *ns)
}
/**
+ * aa_get_ns_not0 - increment references count on @ns found via lookup
+ * @ns: namespace to increment reference count of (MAYBE NULL)
+ *
+ * Returns: pointer to @ns, if @ns is NULL returns NULL,
+ * NULL if @ns is being freed
+ * Requires: @ns must be held with valid refcount when called
+ */
+static inline struct aa_ns *aa_get_ns_not0(struct aa_ns *ns)
+{
+ if (ns && aa_get_profile_not0(ns->unconfined))
+ return ns;
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+/**
* aa_put_ns - decrement refcount on @ns
* @ns: namespace to put reference of
*
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
index 45e66b14c2d5..7d5c768493e8 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ struct aa_ns *aa_lookupn_ns(struct aa_ns *view, const char *name, size_t n)
struct aa_ns *ns = NULL;
rcu_read_lock();
- ns = aa_get_ns(__aa_lookupn_ns(view, name, n));
+ ns = aa_get_ns_not0(__aa_lookupn_ns(view, name, n));
rcu_read_unlock();
return ns;