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[5.4,48/48] audit: move put_tree() to avoid trim_trees refcount underflow and UAF

Message ID 20210901122254.957547573@linuxfoundation.org
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Greg KH Sept. 1, 2021, 12:28 p.m. UTC 
From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>

commit 67d69e9d1a6c889d98951c1d74b19332ce0565af upstream.

AUDIT_TRIM is expected to be idempotent, but multiple executions resulted
in a refcount underflow and use-after-free.

git bisect fingered commit fb041bb7c0a9	("locking/refcount: Consolidate
implementations of refcount_t") but this patch with its more thorough
checking that wasn't in the x86 assembly code merely exposed a previously
existing tree refcount imbalance in the case of tree trimming code that
was refactored with prune_one() to remove a tree introduced in
commit 8432c7006297 ("audit: Simplify locking around untag_chunk()")

Move the put_tree() to cover only the prune_one() case.

Passes audit-testsuite and 3 passes of "auditctl -t" with at least one
directory watch.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Seiji Nishikawa <snishika@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8432c7006297 ("audit: Simplify locking around untag_chunk()")
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
[PM: reformatted/cleaned-up the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/audit_tree.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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--- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
@@ -595,7 +595,6 @@  static void prune_tree_chunks(struct aud
 		spin_lock(&hash_lock);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
-	put_tree(victim);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -604,6 +603,7 @@  static void prune_tree_chunks(struct aud
 static void prune_one(struct audit_tree *victim)
 {
 	prune_tree_chunks(victim, false);
+	put_tree(victim);
 }
 
 /* trim the uncommitted chunks from tree */