The VT_DISALLOCATE ioctl can free a virtual console while tty_release()
is still running, causing a use-after-free in con_shutdown(). This
occurs because VT_DISALLOCATE considers a virtual console's
'struct vc_data' to be unused as soon as the corresponding tty's
refcount hits 0. But actually it may be still being closed.
Fix this by making vc_data be reference-counted via the embedded
'struct tty_port'. A newly allocated virtual console has refcount 1.
Opening it for the first time increments the refcount to 2. Closing it
for the last time decrements the refcount (in tty_operations::cleanup()
so that it happens late enough), as does VT_DISALLOCATE.
Reproducer:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/vt.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main()
{
if (fork()) {
for (;;)
close(open("/dev/tty5", O_RDWR));
} else {
int fd = open("/dev/tty10", O_RDWR);
for (;;)
ioctl(fd, VT_DISALLOCATE, 5);
}
}
KASAN report:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in con_shutdown+0x76/0x80 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3278
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88806a4ec108 by task syz_vt/129
CPU: 0 PID: 129 Comm: syz_vt Not tainted 5.6.0-rc2 #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS ?-20191223_100556-anatol 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
[...]
con_shutdown+0x76/0x80 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3278
release_tty+0xa8/0x410 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1514
tty_release_struct+0x34/0x50 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1629
tty_release+0x984/0xed0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1789
[...]
Allocated by task 129:
[...]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:669 [inline]
vc_allocate drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1085 [inline]
vc_allocate+0x1ac/0x680 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1066
con_install+0x4d/0x3f0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3229
tty_driver_install_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1228 [inline]
tty_init_dev+0x94/0x350 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1341
tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1987 [inline]
tty_open+0x3ca/0xb30 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2035
[...]
Freed by task 130:
[...]
kfree+0xbf/0x1e0 mm/slab.c:3757
vt_disallocate drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:300 [inline]
vt_ioctl+0x16dc/0x1e30 drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c:818
tty_ioctl+0x9db/0x11b0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2660
[...]
Fixes:
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LICENSES | ||
arch | ||
block | ||
certs | ||
crypto | ||
drivers | ||
fs | ||
include | ||
init | ||
ipc | ||
kernel | ||
lib | ||
mm | ||
net | ||
samples | ||
scripts | ||
security | ||
sound | ||
tools | ||
usr | ||
virt | ||
.clang-format | ||
.cocciconfig | ||
.get_maintainer.ignore | ||
.gitattributes | ||
.gitignore | ||
.mailmap | ||
COPYING | ||
CREDITS | ||
Kbuild | ||
Kconfig | ||
MAINTAINERS | ||
Makefile | ||
README |
README
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