iio: buffer: Fix file related error handling in IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL

If we fail to copy the just created file descriptor to userland, we
try to clean up by putting back 'fd' and freeing 'ib'. The code uses
put_unused_fd() for the former which is wrong, as the file descriptor
was already published by fd_install() which gets called internally by
anon_inode_getfd().

This makes the error handling code leaving a half cleaned up file
descriptor table around and a partially destructed 'file' object,
allowing userland to play use-after-free tricks on us, by abusing
the still usable fd and making the code operate on a dangling
'file->private_data' pointer.

Instead of leaving the kernel in a partially corrupted state, don't
attempt to explicitly clean up and leave this to the process exit
path that'll release any still valid fds, including the one created
by the previous call to anon_inode_getfd(). Simply return -EFAULT to
indicate the error.

Fixes: f73f7f4da581 ("iio: buffer: add ioctl() to support opening extra buffers for IIO device")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Nuno Sa <Nuno.Sa@analog.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
index 94eb9f6cf128..208b5193c621 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
@@ -1569,9 +1569,17 @@ static long iio_device_buffer_getfd(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, unsigned long arg
 	}
 
 	if (copy_to_user(ival, &fd, sizeof(fd))) {
-		put_unused_fd(fd);
-		ret = -EFAULT;
-		goto error_free_ib;
+		/*
+		 * "Leak" the fd, as there's not much we can do about this
+		 * anyway. 'fd' might have been closed already, as
+		 * anon_inode_getfd() called fd_install() on it, which made
+		 * it reachable by userland.
+		 *
+		 * Instead of allowing a malicious user to play tricks with
+		 * us, rely on the process exit path to do any necessary
+		 * cleanup, as in releasing the file, if still needed.
+		 */
+		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
 	return 0;