[PATCH v2] dma-buf: Move dma_buf_release() from fops to dentry_ops

[Charan Teja Kalla]

Thanks Sumit for the fix.

On 6/11/2020 5:14 PM, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Charan Teja reported a 'use-after-free' in dmabuffs_dname [1], which
> happens if the dma_buf_release() is called while the userspace is
> accessing the dma_buf pseudo fs's dmabuffs_dname() in another process,
> and dma_buf_release() releases the dmabuf object when the last reference
> to the struct file goes away.
> 
> I discussed with Arnd Bergmann, and he suggested that rather than tying
> the dma_buf_release() to the file_operations' release(), we can tie it to
> the dentry_operations' d_release(), which will be called when the last ref
> to the dentry is removed.
> 
> The path exercised by __fput() calls f_op->release() first, and then calls
> dput, which eventually calls d_op->d_release().
> 
> In the 'normal' case, when no userspace access is happening via dma_buf
> pseudo fs, there should be exactly one fd, file, dentry and inode, so
> closing the fd will kill of everything right away.
> 
> In the presented case, the dentry's d_release() will be called only when
> the dentry's last ref is released.
> 
> Therefore, lets move dma_buf_release() from fops->release() to
> d_ops->d_release()
> 
> Many thanks to Arnd for his FS insights :)
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1238278/
> 
> Fixes: bb2bb9030425 ("dma-buf: add DMA_BUF_SET_NAME ioctls")
> Reported-by: syzbot+3643a18836bce555bff6 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> [5.3+]
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Reported-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante at codeaurora.org>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org>
> 

Tested this patch for Android running on Snapdragon hardware and see no
issues.
Tested-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante at codeaurora.org>

> ---
> v2: per Arnd: Moved dma_buf_release() above to avoid forward declaration;
>      removed dentry_ops check.
> ---
>  drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> index 01ce125f8e8d..412629601ad3 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
> @@ -54,37 +54,11 @@ static char *dmabuffs_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
>  			     dentry->d_name.name, ret > 0 ? name : "");
>  }
>  
> -static const struct dentry_operations dma_buf_dentry_ops = {
> -	.d_dname = dmabuffs_dname,
> -};
> -
> -static struct vfsmount *dma_buf_mnt;
> -
> -static int dma_buf_fs_init_context(struct fs_context *fc)
> -{
> -	struct pseudo_fs_context *ctx;
> -
> -	ctx = init_pseudo(fc, DMA_BUF_MAGIC);
> -	if (!ctx)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	ctx->dops = &dma_buf_dentry_ops;
> -	return 0;
> -}
> -
> -static struct file_system_type dma_buf_fs_type = {
> -	.name = "dmabuf",
> -	.init_fs_context = dma_buf_fs_init_context,
> -	.kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
> -};
> -
> -static int dma_buf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> +static void dma_buf_release(struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
>  	struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
>  
> -	if (!is_dma_buf_file(file))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
> -	dmabuf = file->private_data;
> +	dmabuf = dentry->d_fsdata;
>  
>  	BUG_ON(dmabuf->vmapping_counter);
>  
> @@ -110,9 +84,32 @@ static int dma_buf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	module_put(dmabuf->owner);
>  	kfree(dmabuf->name);
>  	kfree(dmabuf);
> +}
> +
> +static const struct dentry_operations dma_buf_dentry_ops = {
> +	.d_dname = dmabuffs_dname,
> +	.d_release = dma_buf_release,
> +};
> +
> +static struct vfsmount *dma_buf_mnt;
> +
> +static int dma_buf_fs_init_context(struct fs_context *fc)
> +{
> +	struct pseudo_fs_context *ctx;
> +
> +	ctx = init_pseudo(fc, DMA_BUF_MAGIC);
> +	if (!ctx)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	ctx->dops = &dma_buf_dentry_ops;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static struct file_system_type dma_buf_fs_type = {
> +	.name = "dmabuf",
> +	.init_fs_context = dma_buf_fs_init_context,
> +	.kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
> +};
> +
>  static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  {
>  	struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
> @@ -412,7 +409,6 @@ static void dma_buf_show_fdinfo(struct seq_file *m, struct file *file)
>  }
>  
>  static const struct file_operations dma_buf_fops = {
> -	.release	= dma_buf_release,
>  	.mmap		= dma_buf_mmap_internal,
>  	.llseek		= dma_buf_llseek,
>  	.poll		= dma_buf_poll,
> 

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