futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully

If the owner of a PI futex dies we fix up the pi_state and set
pi_state->owner to NULL. When a malicious or just sloppy programmed
user space application sets the futex value to 0 e.g. by calling
pthread_mutex_init(), then the futex can be acquired again. A new
waiter manages to enqueue itself on the pi_state w/o damage, but on
unlock the kernel dereferences pi_state->owner and oopses.

Prevent this by checking pi_state->owner in the unlock path. If
pi_state->owner is not current we know that user space manipulated the
futex value. Ignore the mess and return -EINVAL.

This catches the above case and also the case where a task hijacks the
futex by setting the tid value and then tries to unlock it.

Reported-by: Jermome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 17828033a639ed7a04cd5bd3c9d0340c77d91817..06e8240d2abe63baeab90d17e028e273fc525767 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -758,6 +758,13 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *this)
        if (!pi_state)
                return -EINVAL;
 
+       /*
+        * If current does not own the pi_state then the futex is
+        * inconsistent and user space fiddled with the futex value.
+        */
+       if (pi_state->owner != current)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
        raw_spin_lock(&pi_state->pi_mutex.wait_lock);
        new_owner = rt_mutex_next_owner(&pi_state->pi_mutex);