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Subject[24/39] inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks

2.6.33-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

commit e08733446e72b983fed850fc5d8bd21b386feb29 upstream.

There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code. A task can find and
remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references. This can
result in a use after free/double free situation.

Task A Task B
------------ -----------
inotify_new_watch()
allocate a mark (refcnt == 1)
add it to the idr
inotify_rm_watch()
inotify_remove_from_idr()
fsnotify_put_mark()
refcnt hits 0, free
take reference because we are on idr
[at this point it is a use after free]
[time goes on]
refcnt may hit 0 again, double free

The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the
idr.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -550,21 +550,24 @@ retry:
if (unlikely(!idr_pre_get(&group->inotify_data.idr, GFP_KERNEL)))
goto out_err;

+ /* we are putting the mark on the idr, take a reference */
+ fsnotify_get_mark(&tmp_ientry->fsn_entry);
+
spin_lock(&group->inotify_data.idr_lock);
ret = idr_get_new_above(&group->inotify_data.idr, &tmp_ientry->fsn_entry,
group->inotify_data.last_wd+1,
&tmp_ientry->wd);
spin_unlock(&group->inotify_data.idr_lock);
if (ret) {
+ /* we didn't get on the idr, drop the idr reference */
+ fsnotify_put_mark(&tmp_ientry->fsn_entry);
+
/* idr was out of memory allocate and try again */
if (ret == -EAGAIN)
goto retry;
goto out_err;
}

- /* we put the mark on the idr, take a reference */
- fsnotify_get_mark(&tmp_ientry->fsn_entry);
-
/* we are on the idr, now get on the inode */
ret = fsnotify_add_mark(&tmp_ientry->fsn_entry, group, inode);
if (ret) {



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