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audit: move put_tree() to avoid trim_trees refcount underflow and UAF
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commit 67d69e9 upstream.

AUDIT_TRIM is expected to be idempotent, but multiple executions resulted
in a refcount underflow and use-after-free.

git bisect fingered commit fb041bb	("locking/refcount: Consolidate
implementations of refcount_t") but this patch with its more thorough
checking that wasn't in the x86 assembly code merely exposed a previously
existing tree refcount imbalance in the case of tree trimming code that
was refactored with prune_one() to remove a tree introduced in
commit 8432c70 ("audit: Simplify locking around untag_chunk()")

Move the put_tree() to cover only the prune_one() case.

Passes audit-testsuite and 3 passes of "auditctl -t" with at least one
directory watch.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Seiji Nishikawa <snishika@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8432c70 ("audit: Simplify locking around untag_chunk()")
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
[PM: reformatted/cleaned-up the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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rgbriggs authored and gregkh committed Sep 3, 2021
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/audit_tree.c
Expand Up @@ -593,7 +593,6 @@ static void prune_tree_chunks(struct audit_tree *victim, bool tagged)
spin_lock(&hash_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
put_tree(victim);
}

/*
Expand All @@ -602,6 +601,7 @@ static void prune_tree_chunks(struct audit_tree *victim, bool tagged)
static void prune_one(struct audit_tree *victim)
{
prune_tree_chunks(victim, false);
put_tree(victim);
}

/* trim the uncommitted chunks from tree */
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