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    memcg: Fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() · fbf83212
    Tejun Heo authored
    memcg_write_event_control() accesses the dentry->d_name of the specified
    control fd to route the write call.  As a cgroup interface file can't be
    renamed, it's safe to access d_name as long as the specified file is a
    regular cgroup file.  Also, as these cgroup interface files can't be
    removed before the directory, it's safe to access the parent too.
    
    Prior to 347c4a87 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft"), there was a
    call to __file_cft() which verified that the specified file is a regular
    cgroupfs file before further accesses.  The cftype pointer returned from
    __file_cft() was no longer necessary and the commit inadvertently
    dropped the file type check with it allowing any file to slip through.
    With the invarients broken, the d_name and parent accesses can now race
    against renames and removals of arbitrary files and cause
    use-after-free's.
    
    Fix the bug by resurrecting the file type check in __file_cft().  Now
    that cgroupfs is implemented through kernfs, checking the file
    operations needs to go through a layer of indirection.  Instead, let's
    check the superblock and dentry type.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Fixes: 347c4a87 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft")
    Cc: stable@kernel.org # v3.14+
    Reported-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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