linux/ipc
Linpu Yu 8c58a92849 ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range
commit fa0b9b2b7a upstream.

The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id
through ids->next_id.  ipc_idr_alloc() currently forwards that request to
idr_alloc() with an open-ended upper bound.

If the valid tail of the SysV IPC id space is full, the allocation can
spill beyond ipc_mni.  The returned SysV IPC id still uses the normal
index encoding, so later lookup and removal can target the wrong slot.
This leaves the real IDR entry behind and breaks the IDR state for the
object.

The bug is in ipc_idr_alloc() in the checkpoint/restore path.

1. ids->next_id is passed to:

       idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, ipcid_to_idx(next_id), 0, ...)

2. The zero upper bound makes the allocation effectively open-ended.
   Once the valid SysV IPC tail is occupied, idr_alloc() can spill past
   ipc_mni and allocate an entry beyond the valid IPC id range.

3. The new object id is still encoded with the narrower SysV IPC index
   width:

       new->id = (new->seq << ipcmni_seq_shift()) + idx

4. Later removal goes through ipc_rmid(), which uses:

       ipcid_to_idx(ipcp->id)

   That truncates the real IDR index. An object actually stored at a
   high index can then be removed as if it lived at a low in-range
   index.

5. For shared memory, shm_destroy() frees the current object anyway, but
   the real high IDR slot is left behind as a dangling pointer.

6. A subsequent walk of /proc/sysvipc/shm reaches the stale IDR entry
   and dereferences freed memory.

Prevent this by bounding the requested allocation to ipc_mni so the
checkpoint/restore path fails once the valid range is exhausted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1778336914.git.linpu5433@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2eebe949bfa7d1f6e13b5be6a92c64c850ce9d45.1778336914.git.linpu5433@gmail.com
Fixes: 03f5956680 ("ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id")
Signed-off-by: Linpu Yu <linpu5433@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-06-19 13:33:26 +02:00
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compat.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mq_sysctl.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
mqueue.c ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() 2022-06-09 10:23:10 +02:00
msg.c memcg: enable accounting of ipc resources 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
msgutil.c ipc: Use generic ns_common::count 2020-08-19 14:13:52 +02:00
namespace.c memcg: enable accounting for new namesapces and struct nsproxy 2021-09-03 09:58:12 -07:00
sem.c ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race 2022-12-08 11:28:45 +01:00
shm.c ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:05:26 +01:00
syscall.c y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME 2019-11-15 14:38:27 +01:00
util.c ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range 2026-06-19 13:33:26 +02:00
util.h ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx 2021-07-01 11:06:07 -07:00