On Thu, 2025-06-12 at 11:55 +0800, Li Lingfeng wrote:
> Checking whether tracking callbacks can be called based on whether
> nn->client_tracking_ops is NULL may lead to callbacks being invoked
> before tracking initialization completes, causing resource access
> violations (UAF, NULL pointer dereference). Examples:
>
> 1) nfsd4_client_tracking_init
> // set nn->client_tracking_ops
> nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
> nfs4_cld_state_init
> nn->reclaim_str_hashtbl = kmalloc_array
> ... // error path, goto err
> nfs4_cld_state_shutdown
> kfree(nn->reclaim_str_hashtbl)
> write_v4_end_grace
> nfsd4_end_grace
> nfsd4_record_grace_done
> nfsd4_cld_grace_done
> nfs4_release_reclaim
> nn->reclaim_str_hashtbl[i]
> // UAF
> // clear nn->client_tracking_ops
>
> 2) nfsd4_client_tracking_init
> // set nn->client_tracking_ops
> nfsd4_cld_tracking_init
> write_v4_end_grace
> nfsd4_end_grace
> nfsd4_record_grace_done
> nfsd4_cld_grace_done
> alloc_cld_upcall
> cn = nn->cld_net
> spin_lock // cn->cn_lock
> // NULL deref
> // error path, skip init pipe
> __nfsd4_init_cld_pipe
> cn = kzalloc
> nn->cld_net = cn
> // clear nn->client_tracking_ops
>
Have you seen this race in the wild?
Looking at this more closely, I don't think this race is possible.
You'd need to invoke the ->init routine concurrently from two different
tasks, but nfsd4_client_tracking_init is called during net ns
initialization, which should ensure that only one task invokes it.
> After nfsd mounts, users can trigger grace_done callbacks via
> /proc/fs/nfsd/v4_end_grace. If resources are uninitialized or freed
> in error paths, this causes access violations.
>
> Resolve the issue by leveraging nfsd_mutex to prevent concurrency.
>
> Fixes: 52e19c09a183 ("nfsd: make reclaim_str_hashtbl allocated per net")
> Signed-off-by: Li Lingfeng <lilingfeng3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> Use nfsd_mutex instead of adding a new flag to prevent concurrency.
> fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c | 8 ++++++++
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 4 ++++
> fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> index 82785db730d9..8ac089f8134c 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> @@ -162,7 +162,9 @@ legacy_recdir_name_error(struct nfs4_client *clp, int error)
> if (error == -ENOENT) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "NFSD: disabling legacy clientid tracking. "
> "Reboot recovery will not function correctly!\n");
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> nfsd4_client_tracking_exit(clp->net);
> + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
> }
> }
>
> @@ -2083,8 +2085,10 @@ nfsd4_client_record_create(struct nfs4_client *clp)
> {
> struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(clp->net, nfsd_net_id);
>
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> if (nn->client_tracking_ops)
> nn->client_tracking_ops->create(clp);
> + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
> }
>
> void
> @@ -2092,8 +2096,10 @@ nfsd4_client_record_remove(struct nfs4_client *clp)
> {
> struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(clp->net, nfsd_net_id);
>
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> if (nn->client_tracking_ops)
> nn->client_tracking_ops->remove(clp);
> + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
> }
>
> int
> @@ -2101,8 +2107,10 @@ nfsd4_client_record_check(struct nfs4_client *clp)
> {
> struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(clp->net, nfsd_net_id);
>
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> if (nn->client_tracking_ops)
> return nn->client_tracking_ops->check(clp);
> + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
>
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> index d5694987f86f..2794fdc8b678 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> @@ -2529,7 +2529,9 @@ static void inc_reclaim_complete(struct nfs4_client *clp)
> nn->reclaim_str_hashtbl_size) {
> printk(KERN_INFO "NFSD: all clients done reclaiming, ending NFSv4 grace period (net %x)\n",
> clp->net->ns.inum);
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> nfsd4_end_grace(nn);
> + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
> }
> }
>
> @@ -6773,7 +6775,9 @@ nfs4_laundromat(struct nfsd_net *nn)
> lt.new_timeo = 0;
> goto out;
> }
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> nfsd4_end_grace(nn);
> + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex);
>
> spin_lock(&nn->s2s_cp_lock);
> idr_for_each_entry(&nn->s2s_cp_stateids, cps_t, i) {
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
> index 3f3e9f6c4250..649850b4bb60 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
> @@ -1085,7 +1085,9 @@ static ssize_t write_v4_end_grace(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
> if (!nn->nfsd_serv)
> return -EBUSY;
> trace_nfsd_end_grace(netns(file));
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> nfsd4_end_grace(nn);
> + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex);
> break;
> default:
> return -EINVAL;
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
