[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [xen stable-4.13] tools/xenstore: fix a use after free problem in xenstored
commit dc5176d0f9434e275e0be1df8d0518e243798beb Author: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri Apr 3 13:03:40 2020 +0100 Commit: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Tue May 5 15:35:54 2020 +0100 tools/xenstore: fix a use after free problem in xenstored Commit 562a1c0f7ef3fb ("tools/xenstore: dont unlink connection object twice") introduced a potential use after free problem in domain_cleanup(): after calling talloc_unlink() for domain->conn domain->conn is set to NULL. The problem is that domain is registered as talloc child of domain->conn, so it might be freed by the talloc_unlink() call. With Xenstore being single threaded there are normally no concurrent memory allocations running and freeing a virtual memory area normally doesn't result in that area no longer being accessible. A problem could occur only in case either a signal received results in some memory allocation done in the signal handler (SIGHUP is a primary candidate leading to reopening the log file), or in case the talloc framework would do some internal memory allocation during freeing of the memory (which would lead to clobbering of the freed domain structure). Fixes: 562a1c0f7ef3fb ("tools/xenstore: dont unlink connection object twice") Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx> (cherry picked from commit bb2a34fd740e9a26be9e2244f1a5b4cef439e5a8) --- tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.c b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.c index 1a83097952..1eae703ef6 100644 --- a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.c +++ b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_domain.c @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ static void domain_cleanup(void) { xc_dominfo_t dominfo; struct domain *domain; + struct connection *conn; int notify = 0; again: @@ -230,8 +231,10 @@ static void domain_cleanup(void) continue; } if (domain->conn) { - talloc_unlink(talloc_autofree_context(), domain->conn); + /* domain is a talloc child of domain->conn. */ + conn = domain->conn; domain->conn = NULL; + talloc_unlink(talloc_autofree_context(), conn); notify = 0; /* destroy_domain() fires the watch */ goto again; } -- generated by git-patchbot for /home/xen/git/xen.git#stable-4.13
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