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SubjectRe: KASAN: use-after-free Read in sock_release
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 05:18:33AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:07:19AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > Incidentally, grepping for sys_close() shows another piece of fun in
> > net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c. Folks, ONCE DESCRIPTOR IS INSTALLED, THAT'S
> > IT; THERE'S NO REMOVING IT ON FAILURE EXITS. sys_close() should
> > never, ever be used that way. Sigh...
>
> Would be great do unexport the thing. Except that we also have
> binfmt_misc (which looks legit) and autofs4, which on crack decided
> that close() isn't a fun syscall, they'd much rather have an ioctl
> that does exactly the same..

Yes, since binfmt_misc one is guaranteed that its descriptor table is
not shared - all callchains go through do_execveat_common(), where we'd
use unshare_files(). autofs one is... not in good taste, but still
safe; there the descriptor is preexisting and it's essentially a weird
way of spelling close(2). References from syscall tables are, of course,
OK. init/*.c uses are done pretty much from userland - they could have
been straight syscalls, if not for the lack of klibc in kernel tree.
Everything else, though...

IMO we need a whack-a-mole list somewhere; "new callers of sys_close()
anywhere outside of init/* and syscall tables" definitely should be
on it...

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