Kees Cook 855d44434f mm/secretmem: avoid letting secretmem_users drop to zero ...

Quoting Dmitry:
 "refcount_inc() needs to be done before fd_install(). After
  fd_install() finishes, the fd can be used by userspace and
  we can have secret data in memory before the refcount_inc().

  A straightforward misuse where a user will predict the returned
  fd in another thread before the syscall returns and will use it
  to store secret data is somewhat dubious because such a user just
  shoots themself in the foot.

  But a more interesting misuse would be to close the predicted fd
  and decrement the refcount before the corresponding refcount_inc,
  this way one can briefly drop the refcount to zero while there are
  other users of secretmem."

Move fd_install() after refcount_inc().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021154046.880251-1-keescook@chromium.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACT4Y+b1sW6-Hkn8HQYw_SsT7X3tp-CJNh2ci0wG3ZnQz9jjig@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 9a436f8ff6 ("PM: hibernate: disable when there are active secretmem users")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jordy Zomer <jordy@pwning.systems>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2021-10-28 17:18:55 -07:00

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