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Commit 4a7ba45b authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Andrew Morton
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memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control()

memcg_write_event_control() accesses the dentry->d_name of the specified
control fd to route the write call.  As a cgroup interface file can't be
renamed, it's safe to access d_name as long as the specified file is a
regular cgroup file.  Also, as these cgroup interface files can't be
removed before the directory, it's safe to access the parent too.

Prior to 347c4a87 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft"), there was a
call to __file_cft() which verified that the specified file is a regular
cgroupfs file before further accesses.  The cftype pointer returned from
__file_cft() was no longer necessary and the commit inadvertently dropped
the file type check with it allowing any file to slip through.  With the
invarients broken, the d_name and parent accesses can now race against
renames and removals of arbitrary files and cause use-after-free's.

Fix the bug by resurrecting the file type check in __file_cft().  Now that
cgroupfs is implemented through kernfs, checking the file operations needs
to go through a layer of indirection.  Instead, let's check the superblock
and dentry type.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5FRm/cfcKPGzWwl@slm.duckdns.org


Fixes: 347c4a87 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.14+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent a501788a
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