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authorOndrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>2020-02-03 09:50:23 +0100
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2020-02-05 18:31:10 -0500
commit39a706fbcf2694bfb651bed9041d44c3f4fa8078 (patch)
tree5fbf40170029dc6e2883d3d73bd98c4805e92a16 /security
parenta20456aef80fa6dda500b46c4bd04e39135097c6 (diff)
selinux: fix sidtab string cache locking
Avoiding taking a lock in an IRQ context is not enough to prevent deadlocks, as discovered by syzbot: === WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected 5.5.0-syzkaller #0 Not tainted ----------------------------------------------------- syz-executor.0/8927 [HC0[0]:SC0[2]:HE1:SE0] is trying to acquire: ffff888027c94098 (&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline] ffff888027c94098 (&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: sidtab_sid2str_put.part.0+0x36/0x880 security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c:533 and this task is already holding: ffffffff898639b0 (&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.}, at: spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline] ffffffff898639b0 (&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.}, at: nf_conntrack_lock+0x17/0x70 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:91 which would create a new lock dependency: (&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.} -> (&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock){+.+.} but this new dependency connects a SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock: (&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock){+.-.} [...] other info that might help us debug this: Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock); local_irq_disable(); lock(&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock); lock(&(&s->cache_lock)->rlock); <Interrupt> lock(&(&nf_conntrack_locks[i])->rlock); *** DEADLOCK *** [...] === Fix this by simply locking with irqsave/irqrestore and stop giving up on !in_task(). It makes the locking a bit slower, but it shouldn't make a big difference in real workloads. Under the scenario from [1] (only cache hits) it only increased the runtime overhead from the security_secid_to_secctx() function from ~2% to ~3% (it was ~5-65% before introducing the cache). [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733259 Fixes: d97bd23c2d7d ("selinux: cache the SID -> context string translation") Reported-by: syzbot+61cba5033e2072d61806@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c12
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
index a308ce1e6a13..f511ffccb131 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c
@@ -518,19 +518,13 @@ void sidtab_sid2str_put(struct sidtab *s, struct sidtab_entry *entry,
const char *str, u32 str_len)
{
struct sidtab_str_cache *cache, *victim = NULL;
+ unsigned long flags;
/* do not cache invalid contexts */
if (entry->context.len)
return;
- /*
- * Skip the put operation when in non-task context to avoid the need
- * to disable interrupts while holding s->cache_lock.
- */
- if (!in_task())
- return;
-
- spin_lock(&s->cache_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&s->cache_lock, flags);
cache = rcu_dereference_protected(entry->cache,
lockdep_is_held(&s->cache_lock));
@@ -561,7 +555,7 @@ void sidtab_sid2str_put(struct sidtab *s, struct sidtab_entry *entry,
rcu_assign_pointer(entry->cache, cache);
out_unlock:
- spin_unlock(&s->cache_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&s->cache_lock, flags);
kfree_rcu(victim, rcu_member);
}