efivarfs: fix NULL dereference on resume

LSMs often inspect the path.mnt of files in the security hooks, and this
causes a NULL deref in efivarfs_pm_notify() because the path is
constructed with a NULL path.mnt.

Fix by obtaining from vfs_kern_mount() instead, and being very careful
to ensure that deactivate_super() (potentially triggered by a racing
userspace umount) is not called directly from the notifier, because it
would deadlock when efivarfs_kill_sb() tried to unregister the notifier
chain.

[ Al notes:
	Umm...  That's probably safe, but not as a long-term solution -
	it's too intimately dependent upon fs/super.c internals. The
	reasons why you can't run into ->s_umount deadlock here are
	non-trivial... ]

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e54e6a2f-1178-4980-b771-4d9bafc2aa47@tnxip.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3e998bf87638a442cbc6864cdcd3d8d9e08ce3e3.camel@HansenPartnership.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 42295d04f08d..0486e9b68bc6 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -474,12 +474,25 @@ static int efivarfs_check_missing(efi_char16_t *name16, efi_guid_t vendor,
 	return err;
 }
 
+static void efivarfs_deactivate_super_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct super_block *s = container_of(work, struct super_block,
+					     destroy_work);
+	/*
+	 * note: here s->destroy_work is free for reuse (which
+	 * will happen in deactivate_super)
+	 */
+	deactivate_super(s);
+}
+
+static struct file_system_type efivarfs_type;
+
 static int efivarfs_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
 			      void *ptr)
 {
 	struct efivarfs_fs_info *sfi = container_of(nb, struct efivarfs_fs_info,
 						    pm_nb);
-	struct path path = { .mnt = NULL, .dentry = sfi->sb->s_root, };
+	struct path path;
 	struct efivarfs_ctx ectx = {
 		.ctx = {
 			.actor	= efivarfs_actor,
@@ -487,6 +500,7 @@ static int efivarfs_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
 		.sb = sfi->sb,
 	};
 	struct file *file;
+	struct super_block *s = sfi->sb;
 	static bool rescan_done = true;
 
 	if (action == PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE) {
@@ -499,11 +513,43 @@ static int efivarfs_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
 	if (rescan_done)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
+	/* ensure single superblock is alive and pin it */
+	if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&s->s_active))
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
 	pr_info("efivarfs: resyncing variable state\n");
 
-	/* O_NOATIME is required to prevent oops on NULL mnt */
+	path.dentry = sfi->sb->s_root;
+
+	/*
+	 * do not add SB_KERNMOUNT which a single superblock could
+	 * expose to userspace and which also causes MNT_INTERNAL, see
+	 * below
+	 */
+	path.mnt = vfs_kern_mount(&efivarfs_type, 0,
+				  efivarfs_type.name, NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(path.mnt)) {
+		pr_err("efivarfs: internal mount failed\n");
+		/*
+		 * We may be the last pinner of the superblock but
+		 * calling efivarfs_kill_sb from within the notifier
+		 * here would deadlock trying to unregister it
+		 */
+		INIT_WORK(&s->destroy_work, efivarfs_deactivate_super_work);
+		schedule_work(&s->destroy_work);
+		return PTR_ERR(path.mnt);
+	}
+
+	/* path.mnt now has pin on superblock, so this must be above one */
+	atomic_dec(&s->s_active);
+
 	file = kernel_file_open(&path, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOATIME,
 				current_cred());
+	/*
+	 * safe even if last put because no MNT_INTERNAL means this
+	 * will do delayed deactivate_super and not deadlock
+	 */
+	mntput(path.mnt);
 	if (IS_ERR(file))
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;