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ucount: Remove the atomicity from ucount->count
Always increment/decrement ucount->count under the ucounts_lock.  The
increments are there already and moving the decrements there means the
locking logic of the code is simpler.  This simplification in the
locking logic fixes a race between put_ucounts and get_ucounts that
could result in a use-after-free because the count could go zero then
be found by get_ucounts and then be freed by put_ucounts.

A bug presumably this one was found by a combination of syzkaller and
KASAN.  JongWhan Kim reported the syzkaller failure and Dmitry Vyukov
spotted the race in the code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f6b2db1 ("userns: Make the count of user namespaces per user")
Reported-by: JongHwan Kim <zzoru007@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/user_namespace.h
Expand Up @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ struct ucounts {
struct hlist_node node;
struct user_namespace *ns;
kuid_t uid;
atomic_t count;
int count;
atomic_t ucount[UCOUNT_COUNTS];
};

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18 changes: 11 additions & 7 deletions kernel/ucount.c
Expand Up @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)

new->ns = ns;
new->uid = uid;
atomic_set(&new->count, 0);
new->count = 0;

spin_lock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
ucounts = find_ucounts(ns, uid, hashent);
Expand All @@ -155,8 +155,10 @@ static struct ucounts *get_ucounts(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid)
ucounts = new;
}
}
if (!atomic_add_unless(&ucounts->count, 1, INT_MAX))
if (ucounts->count == INT_MAX)
ucounts = NULL;
else
ucounts->count += 1;
spin_unlock_irq(&ucounts_lock);
return ucounts;
}
Expand All @@ -165,13 +167,15 @@ static void put_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
{
unsigned long flags;

if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ucounts->count)) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&ucounts_lock, flags);
spin_lock_irqsave(&ucounts_lock, flags);
ucounts->count -= 1;
if (!ucounts->count)
hlist_del_init(&ucounts->node);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ucounts_lock, flags);
else
ucounts = NULL;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ucounts_lock, flags);

kfree(ucounts);
}
kfree(ucounts);
}

static inline bool atomic_inc_below(atomic_t *v, int u)
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