Commit 2667ed10 authored by Fenghua Yu's avatar Fenghua Yu Committed by Thomas Gleixner

mm: Fix PASID use-after-free issue

The PASID is being freed too early.  It needs to stay around until after
device drivers that might be using it have had a chance to clear it out
of the hardware.

The relevant refcounts are:

  mmget() /mmput()  refcount the mm's address space
  mmgrab()/mmdrop() refcount the mm itself

The PASID is currently tied to the life of the mm's address space and freed
in __mmput().  This makes logical sense because the PASID can't be used
once the address space is gone.

But, this misses an important point: even after the address space is gone,
the PASID will still be programmed into a device.  Device drivers might,
for instance, still need to flush operations that are outstanding and need
to use that PASID.  They do this at file->release() time.

Device drivers call the IOMMU driver to hold a reference on the mm itself
and drop it at file->release() time.  But, the IOMMU driver holds a
reference on the mm itself, not the address space.  The address space (and
the PASID) is long gone by the time the driver tries to clean up.  This is
effectively a use-after-free bug on the PASID.

To fix this, move the PASID free operation from __mmput() to __mmdrop().
This ensures that the IOMMU driver's existing mmgrab() keeps the PASID
allocated until it drops its mm reference.

Fixes: 701fac40 ("iommu/sva: Assign a PASID to mm on PASID allocation and free it on mm exit")
Reported-by: default avatarZhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@foxmail.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarJean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarZhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@foxmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220428180041.806809-1-fenghua.yu@intel.com
parent 57ae8a49
......@@ -792,6 +792,7 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
mmu_notifier_subscriptions_destroy(mm);
check_mm(mm);
put_user_ns(mm->user_ns);
mm_pasid_drop(mm);
free_mm(mm);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmdrop);
......@@ -1190,7 +1191,6 @@ static inline void __mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
if (mm->binfmt)
module_put(mm->binfmt->module);
mm_pasid_drop(mm);
mmdrop(mm);
}
......
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