From 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yang Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:42:33 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de() Pde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node to EMPTY, which may result in uaf access. We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE() set the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to avoid uaf access. We found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase getdent and tun in the same time. The steps of the issue is as follows: 1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current pde is tun3; 2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase them from rbtree. erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2. the pde(tun2) will be released to slab; 3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access. CPU 0 | CPU 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/ | unregister_netdevice(tun->dev) //tun3 tun2 sys_getdents64() | iterate_dir() | proc_readdir() | proc_readdir_de() | snmp6_unregister_dev() pde_get(de); | proc_remove() read_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); | remove_proc_subtree() | write_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [time window] | rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); | write_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); read_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); | next = pde_subdir_next(de); | pde_put(de); | de = next; //UAF | rbtree of dev_snmp6 | pde(tun3) / \ NULL pde(tun2) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251025024233.158363-1-albin_yang@163.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: wangzijie Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/proc/generic.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c index 176281112273..501889856461 100644 --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -698,6 +698,12 @@ void pde_put(struct proc_dir_entry *pde) } } +static void pde_erase(struct proc_dir_entry *pde, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) +{ + rb_erase(&pde->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); + RB_CLEAR_NODE(&pde->subdir_node); +} + /* * Remove a /proc entry and free it if it's not currently in use. */ @@ -720,7 +726,7 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) WARN(1, "removing permanent /proc entry '%s'", de->name); de = NULL; } else { - rb_erase(&de->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); + pde_erase(de, parent); if (S_ISDIR(de->mode)) parent->nlink--; } @@ -764,7 +770,7 @@ int remove_proc_subtree(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) root->parent->name, root->name); return -EINVAL; } - rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); + pde_erase(root, parent); de = root; while (1) { @@ -776,7 +782,7 @@ int remove_proc_subtree(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent) next->parent->name, next->name); return -EINVAL; } - rb_erase(&next->subdir_node, &de->subdir); + pde_erase(next, de); de = next; continue; } -- 2.47.3