linux/security
John Johansen 667df93769 apparmor: fix race between freeing data and fs accessing it
commit 8e135b8aee upstream.

Backport for conflicts introdued by
- conversion from sha1 to sha256 introduced in
   e44a4dc4b3 ("apparmor: switch SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH from sha1 to sha256
")

- adding of conditioanl that nests the conflicting code inside an if
  condition
  d61c57fde8 ("apparmor: make export of raw binary profile to userspace optional")

AppArmor was putting the reference to i_private data on its end after
removing the original entry from the file system. However the inode
can and does live beyond that point and it is possible that some of
the fs call back functions will be invoked after the reference has
been put, which results in a race between freeing the data and
accessing it through the fs.

While the rawdata/loaddata is the most likely candidate to fail the
race, as it has the fewest references. If properly crafted it might be
possible to trigger a race for the other types stored in i_private.

Fix this by moving the put of i_private referenced data to the correct
place which is during inode eviction.

Fixes: c961ee5f21 ("apparmor: convert from securityfs to apparmorfs for policy ns files")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Bélair <maxime.belair@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-04-18 10:33:36 +02:00
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apparmor apparmor: fix race between freeing data and fs accessing it 2026-04-18 10:33:36 +02:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Set bpf_lsm_blob_sizes.lbs_task to 0 2024-10-17 15:11:18 +02:00
integrity ima: Handle error code returned by ima_filter_rule_match() 2026-01-19 13:09:31 +01:00
keys KEYS: trusted: Fix a memory leak in tpm2_load_cmd 2026-01-19 13:09:48 +01:00
landlock landlock: Add the errata interface 2025-05-02 07:44:20 +02:00
loadpin LoadPin: Ignore the "contents" argument of the LSM hooks 2022-12-31 13:14:45 +01:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid safesetid: check size of policy writes 2025-03-13 12:50:17 +01:00
selinux selinux: fix selinux_xfrm_alloc_user() to set correct ctx_len 2025-06-27 11:05:34 +01:00
smack smack: /smack/doi: accept previously used values 2026-03-04 07:19:31 -05:00
tomoyo tomoyo: don't emit warning in tomoyo_write_control() 2025-03-13 12:50:18 +01:00
yama task_work: cleanup notification modes 2020-10-17 15:05:30 -06:00
commoncap.c capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc() 2022-11-10 18:15:39 +01:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Roll back to original exceptions after copy failure 2023-01-12 11:58:59 +01:00
inode.c securityfs: don't pin dentries twice, once is enough... 2025-08-28 16:24:17 +02:00
Kconfig proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes 2024-10-17 15:11:27 +02:00
Kconfig.hardening security: Restrict CONFIG_ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS to gcc or clang > 15.0.6 2022-12-31 13:14:46 +01:00
lsm_audit.c audit: remove unnecessary 'ret' initialization 2021-06-11 13:21:28 -04:00
Makefile security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...) 2021-09-03 08:17:20 +09:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c xen/privcmd: add boot control for restricted usage in domU 2026-04-18 10:33:22 +02:00