watchdog: fix UAF in reboot notifier handling in watchdog core code
authorVladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:53:47 +0000 (13:53 +0100)
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:55:46 +0000 (15:55 +0100)
commit69503e585192fdd84b240f18a0873d20e18a2e0a
treebda91263004f0eef925629615c19898b005eec4b
parentb1301b9022e9769f3228a353a83bb9623c0f6e41
watchdog: fix UAF in reboot notifier handling in watchdog core code

After the commit 44ea39420fc9 ("drivers/watchdog: make use of
devm_register_reboot_notifier()") the struct notifier_block reboot_nb in
the struct watchdog_device is removed from the reboot notifiers chain at
the time watchdog's chardev is closed. But at least in i6300esb.c case
reboot_nb is embedded in the struct esb_dev which can be freed on its
device removal and before the chardev is closed, thus UAF at reboot:

[    7.728581] esb_probe: esb_dev.watchdog_device ffff91316f91ab28
ts# uname -r                            note the address ^^^
5.5.0-rc5-ae6088-wdog
ts# ./openwdog0 &
[1] 696
ts# opened /dev/watchdog0, sleeping 10s...
ts# echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:09.0/remove
[  178.086079] devres:rel_nodes: dev ffff91317668a0b0 data ffff91316f91ab28
           esb_dev.watchdog_device.reboot_nb memory is freed here ^^^
ts# ...woken up
[  181.459010] devres:rel_nodes: dev ffff913171781000 data ffff913174a1dae8
[  181.460195] devm_unreg_reboot_notifier: res ffff913174a1dae8 nb ffff91316f91ab78
                                     attempt to use memory already freed ^^^
[  181.461063] devm_unreg_reboot_notifier: nb->call 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
[  181.461243] devm_unreg_reboot_notifier: nb->next 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
                freed memory is filled with a slub poison ^^^
[1]+  Done                    ./openwdog0
ts# reboot
[  229.921862] systemd-shutdown[1]: Rebooting.
[  229.939265] notifier_call_chain: nb ffffffff9c6c2f20 nb->next ffffffff9c6d50c0
[  229.943080] notifier_call_chain: nb ffffffff9c6d50c0 nb->next 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
[  229.946054] notifier_call_chain: nb 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b INVAL
[  229.957584] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  229.958770] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Not tainted 5.5.0-rc5-ae6088-wdog
[  229.960224] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), ...
[  229.963288] RIP: 0010:notifier_call_chain+0x66/0xd0
[  229.969082] RSP: 0018:ffffb20dc0013d88 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  229.970812] RAX: 000000000000002e RBX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RCX: 00000000000008b3
[  229.972929] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: ffffffff9ccc46ac
[  229.975028] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000000008b3
[  229.977039] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffff9c26c740 R12: 0000000000000000
[  229.979155] R13: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000fffffffa
...   slub_debug=FZP poison ^^^
[  229.989089] Call Trace:
[  229.990157]  blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x43/0x59
[  229.991401]  kernel_restart_prepare+0x14/0x30
[  229.992607]  kernel_restart+0x9/0x30
[  229.993800]  __do_sys_reboot+0x1d2/0x210
[  230.000149]  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x130
[  230.001277]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[  230.002639] RIP: 0033:0x7f5461bdd177
[  230.016402] Modules linked in: i6300esb
[  230.050261] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

Fix the crash by reverting 44ea39420fc9 so unregister_reboot_notifier()
is called when watchdog device is removed. This also makes handling of
the reboot notifier unified with the handling of the restart handler,
which is freed with unregister_restart_handler() in the same place.

Fixes: 44ea39420fc9 ("drivers/watchdog: make use of devm_register_reboot_notifier()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200108125347.6067-1-vdronov@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_core.c
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c