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 347c4a8747 ("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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 347c4a8747 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v3.14+
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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