Date:   Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:39:58 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc:     torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ebiggers@kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] psi: Fix uaf issue when psi trigger is destroyed
 while being polled
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:23:09PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> With write operation on psi files replacing old trigger with a new one,
> the lifetime of its waitqueue is totally arbitrary. Overwriting an
> existing trigger causes its waitqueue to be freed and pending poll()
> will stumble on trigger->event_wait which was destroyed.
> Fix this by disallowing to redefine an existing psi trigger. If a write
> operation is used on a file descriptor with an already existing psi
> trigger, the operation will fail with EBUSY error.
> Also bypass a check for psi_disabled in the psi_trigger_destroy as the
> flag can be flipped after the trigger is created, leading to a memory
> leak.
> 
> Fixes: 0e94682b73bf ("psi: introduce psi monitor")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: syzbot+cdb5dd11c97cc532efad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Analyzed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>