kernel/linux.git/security/apparmor/match.c, branch v6.6.132

apparmor: fix differential encoding verification

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit 39440b137546a3aa383cfdabc605fb73811b6093 upstream. Differential encoding allows loops to be created if it is abused. To prevent this the unpack should verify that a diff-encode chain terminates. Unfortunately the differential encode verification had two bugs. 1. it conflated states that had gone through check and already been marked, with states that were currently being checked and marked. This means that loops in the current chain being verified are treated as a chain that has already been verified. 2. the order bailout on already checked states compared current chain check iterators j,k instead of using the outer loop iterator i. Meaning a step backwards in states in the current chain verification was being mistaken for moving to an already verified state. Move to a double mark scheme where already verified states get a different mark, than the current chain being kept. This enables us to also drop the backwards verification check that was the cause of the second error as any already verified state is already marked. Fixes: 031dcc8f4e84 ("apparmor: dfa add support for state differential encoding") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: fix missing bounds check on DEFAULT table in verify_dfa()

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit d352873bbefa7eb39995239d0b44ccdf8aaa79a4 upstream. The verify_dfa() function only checks DEFAULT_TABLE bounds when the state is not differentially encoded. When the verification loop traverses the differential encoding chain, it reads k = DEFAULT_TABLE[j] and uses k as an array index without validation. A malformed DFA with DEFAULT_TABLE[j] >= state_count, therefore, causes both out-of-bounds reads and writes. [ 57.179855] ================================================================== [ 57.180549] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660 [ 57.180904] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888100eadec4 by task su/993 [ 57.181554] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 993 Comm: su Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7-next-20260127 #1 PREEMPT(lazy) [ 57.181558] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 57.181563] Call Trace: [ 57.181572] [ 57.181577] dump_stack_lvl+0x5e/0x80 [ 57.181596] print_report+0xc8/0x270 [ 57.181605] ? verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660 [ 57.181608] kasan_report+0x118/0x150 [ 57.181620] ? verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660 [ 57.181623] verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660 [ 57.181627] aa_dfa_unpack+0x1610/0x1740 [ 57.181629] ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1d0/0x470 [ 57.181640] unpack_pdb+0x86d/0x46b0 [ 57.181647] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 57.181653] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 57.181656] ? aa_unpack_nameX+0x1a8/0x300 [ 57.181659] aa_unpack+0x20b0/0x4c30 [ 57.181662] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 57.181664] ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x33/0x700 [ 57.181681] ? kasan_save_track+0x4f/0x80 [ 57.181683] ? kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 [ 57.181686] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 [ 57.181688] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x44a/0x780 [ 57.181693] ? aa_simple_write_to_buffer+0x54/0x130 [ 57.181697] ? policy_update+0x154/0x330 [ 57.181704] aa_replace_profiles+0x15a/0x1dd0 [ 57.181707] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 57.181710] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x44a/0x780 [ 57.181712] ? aa_loaddata_alloc+0x77/0x140 [ 57.181715] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 57.181717] ? _copy_from_user+0x2a/0x70 [ 57.181730] policy_update+0x17a/0x330 [ 57.181733] profile_replace+0x153/0x1a0 [ 57.181735] ? rw_verify_area+0x93/0x2d0 [ 57.181740] vfs_write+0x235/0xab0 [ 57.181745] ksys_write+0xb0/0x170 [ 57.181748] do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x660 [ 57.181762] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 57.181765] RIP: 0033:0x7f6192792eb2 Remove the MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE condition to validate all DEFAULT_TABLE entries unconditionally. Fixes: 031dcc8f4e84 ("apparmor: dfa add support for state differential encoding") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage

2026-03-25T10:05:43+00:00

commit 8756b68edae37ff546c02091989a4ceab3f20abd upstream. The match_char() macro evaluates its character parameter multiple times when traversing differential encoding chains. When invoked with *str++, the string pointer advances on each iteration of the inner do-while loop, causing the DFA to check different characters at each iteration and therefore skip input characters. This results in out-of-bounds reads when the pointer advances past the input buffer boundary. [ 94.984676] ================================================================== [ 94.985301] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.985655] Read of size 1 at addr ffff888100342000 by task file/976 [ 94.986319] CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 976 Comm: file Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7-next-20260127 #1 PREEMPT(lazy) [ 94.986322] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 94.986329] Call Trace: [ 94.986341] [ 94.986347] dump_stack_lvl+0x5e/0x80 [ 94.986374] print_report+0xc8/0x270 [ 94.986384] ? aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.986388] kasan_report+0x118/0x150 [ 94.986401] ? aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.986405] aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.986408] __aa_path_perm+0x131/0x400 [ 94.986418] aa_path_perm+0x219/0x2f0 [ 94.986424] apparmor_file_open+0x345/0x570 [ 94.986431] security_file_open+0x5c/0x140 [ 94.986442] do_dentry_open+0x2f6/0x1120 [ 94.986450] vfs_open+0x38/0x2b0 [ 94.986453] ? may_open+0x1e2/0x2b0 [ 94.986466] path_openat+0x231b/0x2b30 [ 94.986469] ? __x64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x130 [ 94.986477] do_file_open+0x19d/0x360 [ 94.986487] do_sys_openat2+0x98/0x100 [ 94.986491] __x64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x130 [ 94.986499] do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x660 [ 94.986515] ? count_memcg_events+0x15f/0x3c0 [ 94.986526] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986540] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1639/0x1ef0 [ 94.986551] ? vma_start_read+0xf0/0x320 [ 94.986558] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986561] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986563] ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x50/0xe0 [ 94.986572] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986574] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x9/0xb0 [ 94.986587] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986588] ? irqentry_exit+0x3c/0x590 [ 94.986595] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 94.986597] RIP: 0033:0x7fda4a79c3ea Fix by extracting the character value before invoking match_char, ensuring single evaluation per outer loop. Fixes: 074c1cd798cb ("apparmor: dfa move character match into a macro") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

apparmor: refcount the pdb

2026-03-04T12:20:24+00:00

[ Upstream commit 98b824ff8984fd523fc264fbb13208098ab09da3 ] With the move to permission tables the dfa is no longer a stand alone entity when used, needing a minimum of a permission table. However it still could be shared among different pdbs each using a different permission table. Instead of duping the permission table when sharing a pdb, add a refcount to the pdb so it can be easily shared. Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Signed-off-by: John Johansen Stable-dep-of: a4c9efa4dbad ("apparmor: make label_match return a consistent value") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: fix loop detection used in conflicting attachment resolution

2025-08-15T10:08:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit a88db916b8c77552f49f7d9f8744095ea01a268f ] Conflicting attachment resolution is based on the number of states traversed to reach an accepting state in the attachment DFA, accounting for DFA loops traversed during the matching process. However, the loop counting logic had multiple bugs: - The inc_wb_pos macro increments both position and length, but length is supposed to saturate upon hitting buffer capacity, instead of wrapping around. - If no revisited state is found when traversing the history, is_loop would still return true, as if there was a loop found the length of the history buffer, instead of returning false and signalling that no loop was found. As a result, the adjustment step of aa_dfa_leftmatch would sometimes produce negative counts with loop- free DFAs that traversed enough states. - The iteration in the is_loop for loop is supposed to stop before i = wb->len, so the conditional should be < instead of <=. This patch fixes the above bugs as well as the following nits: - The count and size fields in struct match_workbuf were not used, so they can be removed. - The history buffer in match_workbuf semantically stores aa_state_t and not unsigned ints, even if aa_state_t is currently unsigned int. - The local variables in is_loop are counters, and thus should be unsigned ints instead of aa_state_t's. Fixes: 21f606610502 ("apparmor: improve overlapping domain attachment resolution") Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee Co-developed-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: ensure WB_HISTORY_SIZE value is a power of 2

2025-08-15T10:08:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6c055e62560b958354625604293652753d82bcae ] WB_HISTORY_SIZE was defined to be a value not a power of 2, despite a comment in the declaration of struct match_workbuf stating it is and a modular arithmetic usage in the inc_wb_pos macro assuming that it is. Bump WB_HISTORY_SIZE's value up to 32 and add a BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2 line to ensure that any future changes to the value of WB_HISTORY_SIZE respect this requirement. Fixes: 136db994852a ("apparmor: increase left match history buffer size") Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee Signed-off-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

apparmor: Add __init annotation to aa_{setup/teardown}_dfa_engine()

2022-11-02T04:17:26+00:00

The aa_setup_dfa_engine() and aa_teardown_dfa_engine() is only called in apparmor_init(), so let us add __init annotation to them. Fixes: 11c236b89d7c ("apparmor: add a default null dfa") Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng Signed-off-by: John Johansen

apparmor: preparse for state being more than just an integer

2022-10-03T21:49:03+00:00

Convert from an unsigned int to a state_t for state position. This is a step in prepping for the state position carrying some additional flags, and a limited form of backtracking to support variables. Signed-off-by: John Johansen

apparmor: ensure that dfa state tables have entries

2020-04-08T11:42:48+00:00

Currently it is possible to specify a state machine table with 0 length, this is not valid as optional tables are specified by not defining the table as present. Further this allows by-passing the base tables range check against the next/check tables. Fixes: d901d6a298dc ("apparmor: dfa split verification of table headers") Reported-by: Mike Salvatore Signed-off-by: John Johansen

apparmor: add outofband transition and use it in xattr match

2020-01-21T14:00:20+00:00

There are cases where the a special out of band transition that can not be triggered by input is useful in separating match conditions in the dfa encoding. The null_transition is currently used as an out of band transition for match conditions that can not contain a \0 in their input but apparmor needs an out of band transition for cases where the match condition is allowed to contain any input character. Achieve this by allowing for an explicit transition out of input range that can only be triggered by code. Signed-off-by: John Johansen