cgroup: verify that source is a string

The following sequence can be used to trigger a UAF:

    int fscontext_fd = fsopen("cgroup");
    int fd_null = open("/dev/null, O_RDONLY);
    int fsconfig(fscontext_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "source", fd_null);
    close_range(3, ~0U, 0);

The cgroup v1 specific fs parser expects a string for the "source"
parameter.  However, it is perfectly legitimate to e.g.  specify a file
descriptor for the "source" parameter.  The fs parser doesn't know what
a filesystem allows there.  So it's a bug to assume that "source" is
always of type fs_value_is_string when it can reasonably also be
fs_value_is_file.

This assumption in the cgroup code causes a UAF because struct
fs_parameter uses a union for the actual value.  Access to that union is
guarded by the param->type member.  Since the cgroup paramter parser
didn't check param->type but unconditionally moved param->string into
fc->source a close on the fscontext_fd would trigger a UAF during
put_fs_context() which frees fc->source thereby freeing the file stashed
in param->file causing a UAF during a close of the fd_null.

Fix this by verifying that param->type is actually a string and report
an error if not.

In follow up patches I'll add a new generic helper that can be used here
and by other filesystems instead of this error-prone copy-pasta fix.
But fixing it in here first makes backporting a it to stable a lot
easier.

Fixes: 8d2451f4994f ("cgroup1: switch to option-by-option parsing")
Reported-by: syzbot+283ce5a46486d6acdbaf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index ee93b6e89587..527917c0b30b 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -912,6 +912,8 @@ int cgroup1_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
 	opt = fs_parse(fc, cgroup1_fs_parameters, param, &result);
 	if (opt == -ENOPARAM) {
 		if (strcmp(param->key, "source") == 0) {
+			if (param->type != fs_value_is_string)
+				return invalf(fc, "Non-string source");
 			if (fc->source)
 				return invalf(fc, "Multiple sources not supported");
 			fc->source = param->string;