[PATCH] drm/panfrost: Fix GEM handle creation UAF

Chia-I Wu olvaffe at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 23:59:14 UTC 2022


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:34 PM Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
>
> Relying on an unreturned handle to hold a reference to an object we
> dereference is not safe.  Userspace can guess the handle and race us
> by closing the handle from another thread.  The _create_with_handle()
> that returns an object ptr is pretty much a pattern to avoid.  And
> ideally creating the handle would be done after any needed dererencing.
> But in this case creation of the mapping is tied to the handle creation.
> Fortunately the mapping is refcnt'd and holds a reference to the object,
> so we can drop the handle's reference once we hold a mapping reference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c |  7 +++++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c | 10 +++++++---
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
> index 2fa5afe21288..aa5848de647c 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_drv.c
> @@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ static int panfrost_ioctl_create_bo(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
>                 return PTR_ERR(bo);
>
>         mapping = panfrost_gem_mapping_get(bo, priv);
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Now that the mapping holds a reference to the bo until we no longer
> +        * need it, we can safely drop the handle's reference.
> +        */
Not too familiar with panfrost, but I don't see
panfrost_gem_mapping_get hold a reference to the bo?

> +       drm_gem_object_put(&bo->base.base);
> +
>         if (!mapping) {
>                 drm_gem_object_put(&bo->base.base);
>                 return -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c
> index 293e799e2fe8..e3e21c500d24 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panfrost/panfrost_gem.c
> @@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ struct drm_gem_object *panfrost_gem_create_object(struct drm_device *dev, size_t
>         return &obj->base.base;
>  }
>
> +/*
> + * NOTE: if this succeeds, both the handle and the returned object have
> + * an outstanding reference.
> + */
I might suggest dropping the "_with_handle" suffix.

The naming convention is used in several drivers.  I think we should
make it the case that the _with_handle variants always return the
handle without the pointer.  (And with the change, it immediately
becomes clear that qxl and vmwgfx also have similar issues).

>  struct panfrost_gem_object *
>  panfrost_gem_create_with_handle(struct drm_file *file_priv,
>                                 struct drm_device *dev, size_t size,
> @@ -261,10 +265,10 @@ panfrost_gem_create_with_handle(struct drm_file *file_priv,
>          * and handle has the id what user can see.
>          */
>         ret = drm_gem_handle_create(file_priv, &shmem->base, handle);
> -       /* drop reference from allocate - handle holds it now. */
> -       drm_gem_object_put(&shmem->base);
> -       if (ret)
> +       if (ret) {
> +               drm_gem_object_put(&shmem->base);
>                 return ERR_PTR(ret);
> +       }
>
>         return bo;
>  }
> --
> 2.38.1
>


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