Charan Teja reported a 'use-after-free' in dmabuffs_dname [1], which
happens if the dma_buf_release() is called while the userspace is
accessing the dma_buf pseudo fs's dmabuffs_dname() in another process,
and dma_buf_release() releases the dmabuf object when the last reference
to the struct file goes away.
I discussed with Arnd Bergmann, and he suggested that rather than tying
the dma_buf_release() to the file_operations' release(), we can tie it to
the dentry_operations' d_release(), which will be called when the last ref
to the dentry is removed.
The path exercised by __fput() calls f_op->release() first, and then calls
dput, which eventually calls d_op->d_release().
In the 'normal' case, when no userspace access is happening via dma_buf
pseudo fs, there should be exactly one fd, file, dentry and inode, so
closing the fd will kill of everything right away.
In the presented case, the dentry's d_release() will be called only when
the dentry's last ref is released.
Therefore, lets move dma_buf_release() from fops->release() to
d_ops->d_release()
Many thanks to Arnd for his FS insights :)
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1238278/
Fixes: bb2bb90304 ("dma-buf: add DMA_BUF_SET_NAME ioctls")
Reported-by: syzbot+3643a18836bce555bff6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.3+]
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200611114418.19852-1-sumit.semwal@linaro.org
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