kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/generic.c, branch v5.10.258

fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()

2025-12-06T21:08:19+00:00

commit 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()

2025-04-10T12:30:53+00:00

commit 654b33ada4ab5e926cd9c570196fefa7bec7c1df upstream. Fix race between rmmod and /proc/XXX's inode instantiation. The bug is that pde->proc_ops don't belong to /proc, it belongs to a module, therefore dereferencing it after /proc entry has been registered is a bug unless use_pde/unuse_pde() pair has been used. use_pde/unuse_pde can be avoided (2 atomic ops!) because pde->proc_ops never changes so information necessary for inode instantiation can be saved _before_ proc_register() in PDE itself and used later, avoiding pde->proc_ops->... dereference. rmmod lookup sys_delete_module proc_lookup_de pde_get(de); proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, de); mod->exit() proc_remove remove_proc_subtree proc_entry_rundown(de); free_module(mod); if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) if (de->proc_ops->proc_read_iter) --> As module is already freed, will trigger UAF BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff80a702b PGD 817fc4067 P4D 817fc4067 PUD 817fc0067 PMD 102ef4067 PTE 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 2667 Comm: ls Tainted: G Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:proc_get_inode+0x302/0x6e0 RSP: 0018:ffff88811c837998 EFLAGS: 00010a06 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffc0538140 RCX: 0000000000000007 RDX: 1ffffffff80a702b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffffc0538158 RBP: ffff8881299a6000 R08: 0000000067bbe1e5 R09: 1ffff11023906f20 R10: ffffffffb560ca07 R11: ffffffffb2b43a58 R12: ffff888105bb78f0 R13: ffff888100518048 R14: ffff8881299a6004 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007f95b9686840(0000) GS:ffff8883af100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: fffffbfff80a702b CR3: 0000000117dd2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: proc_lookup_de+0x11f/0x2e0 __lookup_slow+0x188/0x350 walk_component+0x2ab/0x4f0 path_lookupat+0x120/0x660 filename_lookup+0x1ce/0x560 vfs_statx+0xac/0x150 __do_sys_newstat+0x96/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [adobriyan@gmail.com: don't do 2 atomic ops on the common path] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d25ded0-1739-447e-812b-e34da7990dcf@p183 Fixes: 778f3dd5a13c ("Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: fix dentry/inode overinstantiating under /proc/${pid}/net

2022-06-09T08:21:17+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7055197705709c59b8ab77e6a5c7d46d61edd96e ] When a process exits, /proc/${pid}, and /proc/${pid}/net dentries are flushed. However some leaf dentries like /proc/${pid}/net/arp_cache aren't. That's because respective PDEs have proc_misc_d_revalidate() hook which returns 1 and leaves dentries/inodes in the LRU. Force revalidation/lookup on everything under /proc/${pid}/net by inheriting proc_net_dentry_ops. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YjdVHgildbWO7diJ@localhost.localdomain Fixes: c6c75deda813 ("proc: fix lookup in /proc/net subdirectories after setns(2)") Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Reported-by: hui li Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs/proc/generic.c: fix incorrect pde_is_permanent check

2021-05-19T08:13:09+00:00

[ Upstream commit f4bf74d82915708208bc9d0c9bd3f769f56bfbec ] Currently the pde_is_permanent() check is being run on root multiple times rather than on the next proc directory entry. This looks like a copy-paste error. Fix this by replacing root with next. Addresses-Coverity: ("Copy-paste error") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318122633.14222-1-colin.king@canonical.com Fixes: d919b33dafb3 ("proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: fix lookup in /proc/net subdirectories after setns(2)

2020-12-30T10:53:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit c6c75deda81344c3a95d1d1f606d5cee109e5d54 ] Commit 1fde6f21d90f ("proc: fix /proc/net/* after setns(2)") only forced revalidation of regular files under /proc/net/ However, /proc/net/ is unusual in the sense of /proc/net/foo handlers take netns pointer from parent directory which is old netns. Steps to reproduce: (void)open("/proc/net/sctp/snmp", O_RDONLY); unshare(CLONE_NEWNET); int fd = open("/proc/net/sctp/snmp", O_RDONLY); read(fd, &c, 1); Read will read wrong data from original netns. Patch forces lookup on every directory under /proc/net . Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201205160916.GA109739@localhost.localdomain Fixes: 1da4d377f943 ("proc: revalidate misc dentries") Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Reported-by: "Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc "seq files": switch to ->read_iter

2020-11-06T18:05:18+00:00

Implement ->read_iter for all proc "seq files" so that splice works on them. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc "single files": switch to ->read_iter

2020-11-06T18:05:18+00:00

Implement ->read_iter for all proc "single files" so that more bionic tests cases can pass when they call splice() on other fun files like /proc/version Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: add option to mount only a pids subset

2020-04-22T15:51:22+00:00

This allows to hide all files and directories in the procfs that are not related to tasks. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files

2020-04-07T17:43:42+00:00

Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"... Most of fs/proc/inode.c file is dedicated to make open/read/.../close reliable in the event of disappearing /proc entries which usually happens if module is getting removed. Files like /proc/cpuinfo which never disappear simply do not need such protection. Save 2 atomic ops, 1 allocation, 1 free per open/read/close sequence for such "permanent" files. Enable "permanent" flag for /proc/cpuinfo /proc/kmsg /proc/modules /proc/slabinfo /proc/stat /proc/sysvipc/* /proc/swaps More will come once I figure out foolproof way to prevent out module authors from marking their stuff "permanent" for performance reasons when it is not. This should help with scalability: benchmark is "read /proc/cpuinfo R times by N threads scattered over the system". N R t, s (before) t, s (after) ----------------------------------------------------- 64 4096 1.582458 1.530502 -3.2% 256 4096 6.371926 6.125168 -3.9% 1024 4096 25.64888 24.47528 -4.6% Benchmark source: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include const int NR_CPUS = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN); int N; const char *filename; int R; int xxx = 0; int glue(int n) { cpu_set_t m; CPU_ZERO(&m); CPU_SET(n, &m); return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &m); } void f(int n) { glue(n % NR_CPUS); while (*(volatile int *)&xxx == 0) { } for (int i = 0; i < R; i++) { int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY); char buf[4096]; ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); asm volatile ("" :: "g" (rv)); close(fd); } } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc < 4) { std::cerr << "usage: " << argv[0] << ' ' << "N /proc/filename R "; return 1; } N = atoi(argv[1]); filename = argv[2]; R = atoi(argv[3]); for (int i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) { if (glue(i) == 0) break; } std::vector T; T.reserve(N); for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) { T.emplace_back(f, i); } auto t0 = std::chrono::system_clock::now(); { *(volatile int *)&xxx = 1; for (auto& t: T) { t.join(); } } auto t1 = std::chrono::system_clock::now(); std::chrono::duration dt = t1 - t0; std::cout << dt.count() << ' '; return 0; } P.S.: Explicit randomization marker is added because adding non-function pointer will silently disable structure layout randomization. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Reported-by: kbuild test robot Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro Cc: Joe Perches Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222201539.GA22576@avx2 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: decouple proc from VFS with "struct proc_ops"

2020-02-04T03:05:26+00:00

Currently core /proc code uses "struct file_operations" for custom hooks, however, VFS doesn't directly call them. Every time VFS expands file_operations hook set, /proc code bloats for no reason. Introduce "struct proc_ops" which contains only those hooks which /proc allows to call into (open, release, read, write, ioctl, mmap, poll). It doesn't contain module pointer as well. Save ~184 bytes per usage: add/remove: 26/26 grow/shrink: 1/4 up/down: 1922/-6674 (-4752) Function old new delta sysvipc_proc_ops - 72 +72 ... config_gz_proc_ops - 72 +72 proc_get_inode 289 339 +50 proc_reg_get_unmapped_area 110 107 -3 close_pdeo 227 224 -3 proc_reg_open 289 284 -5 proc_create_data 60 53 -7 rt_cpu_seq_fops 256 - -256 ... default_affinity_proc_fops 256 - -256 Total: Before=5430095, After=5425343, chg -0.09% Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191225172228.GA13378@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds