[PATCH] apparmor: fix NULL ctx->peer derefs in unix socket ctx updates
From: Maxime Bélair <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-24 15:58:32
Subsystem:
apparmor security module, security subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
John Johansen, John Johansen, Georgia Garcia, Paul Moore, James Morris, "Serge E. Hallyn", Linus Torvalds
aa_unix_file_perm lazily refreshes the AppArmor context cached on a unix
socket. Two of the helpers it uses assume ctx->peer has already been set:
update_peer_ctx -> l = aa_label_merge(old, label, GFP_ATOMIC);
update_sk_ctx -> } else if (aa_label_is_subset(plabel, old)) {
where @old is ctx->peer. Neither aa_label_merge nor aa_label_is_subset
allows NULL. So both fault on the aa_label->size load.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000004c
RIP: 0010:__aa_label_next_not_in_set+0xb/0xd0
Call Trace:
aa_label_is_subset+0x3f/0x70
aa_unix_file_perm+0x5e8/0x9d0
aa_file_perm+0x45a/0x550
apparmor_file_permission+0x44/0xb0
security_file_permission+0x40/0x100
rw_verify_area+0x56/0x180
vfs_write+0x7c/0x480
ksys_write+0xbf/0xf0
ctx->peer is only recorded for stream connections and socket pairs.
unix_dgram_connect sets unix_peer(sk) without going through that path,
so a connected AF_UNIX datagram socket has unix_peer(sk) set while
ctx->peer is still NULL, and the first write that needs revalidation
reaches the helpers above.
Both derefs date back to the Fixes: commit, but the update_sk_ctx() one
was dormant until commit 4483efe4f215 ("apparmor: fix shadowing of plabel
that prevents cache from being updated") stopped @plabel being shadowed,
which is why bisecting the oops lands there.
A NULL @old just means no peer label has been recorded yet, so install
the label directly instead of merging or comparing against it.
Fixes: 88fec3526e84 ("apparmor: make sure unix socket labeling is correctly updated.")
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/1145111
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bélair <redacted>
---
security/apparmor/af_unix.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/af_unix.c b/security/apparmor/af_unix.c
index b908e744818c..d04d9cd268aa 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/af_unix.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/af_unix.c@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ static void update_sk_ctx(struct sock *sk, struct aa_label *label, if (old == plabel) { rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->peer_lastupdate, aa_get_label(plabel)); - } else if (aa_label_is_subset(plabel, old)) { + } else if (!old || aa_label_is_subset(plabel, old)) { rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->peer_lastupdate, aa_get_label(plabel)); rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->peer, aa_get_label(plabel));
@@ -700,13 +700,17 @@ static void update_peer_ctx(struct sock *sk, struct aa_sk_ctx *ctx, spin_lock(&unix_sk(sk)->lock); old = rcu_dereference_protected(ctx->peer, lockdep_is_held(&unix_sk(sk)->lock)); - l = aa_label_merge(old, label, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (l) { - if (l != old) { - rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->peer, l); - aa_put_label(old); - } else - aa_put_label(l); + if (!old) + rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->peer, aa_get_label(label)); + else { + l = aa_label_merge(old, label, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (l) { + if (l != old) { + rcu_assign_pointer(ctx->peer, l); + aa_put_label(old); + } else + aa_put_label(l); + } } spin_unlock(&unix_sk(sk)->lock); }
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2.51.0