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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:58:41 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
Subject:   Re: leak of the vnodes
Message-ID:  <20100407215841.GL2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20100407215256.GA2739@hall.aurel32.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.62.1004061700590.25851@sci.felk.cvut.cz> <20100406140308.GY2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20100406140852.GZ2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20100406144402.GB2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.LNX.4.62.1004062154060.26438@sci.felk.cvut.cz> <20100406210321.GE2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.LNX.4.62.1004070838050.27621@sci.felk.cvut.cz> <20100407095928.GG2415@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <Pine.LNX.4.62.1004072256540.29016@sci.felk.cvut.cz> <20100407215256.GA2739@hall.aurel32.net>

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On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:52:56PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:05:28PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> >>> What have to be logged ?
> >> Please look at ddb command "show files", implemented in kern/kern_desc=
rip.c,
> >> lines 3284-3305 on HEAD. Instead of doing full dump, you can manually
> >> inspect the output. Or, you can write some code that would search the
> >> suspicious vnodes among the vnodes referenced from the processes
> >> opened files. Vnode is probably leaked if use count is > 0 but no
> >> process has vnode referenced by struct file.
> >
> > See attached file.
> >
> >>>> I think there should be something else going on.
> >
> > Bellow is leaking recipe tested under GNU/kFreeBSD.
> > I would expect it leaks vnodes also under plain FreeBSD.
> >
>=20
> I confirm it is reproducible on plain FreeBSD. Looks like a security
> issue, as a normal user can create a local DoS in a few dozen of
> seconds.

I already posted the following patch in private.

diff --git a/sys/kern/tty_pts.c b/sys/kern/tty_pts.c
index 5cfbc71..e9dac77 100644
--- a/sys/kern/tty_pts.c
+++ b/sys/kern/tty_pts.c
@@ -575,6 +575,9 @@ ptsdev_close(struct file *fp, struct thread *td)
 	tty_lock(tp);
 	tty_rel_gone(tp);
=20
+	if (fp->f_vnode !=3D NULL)
+		return (vnops.fo_close(fp, td));
+
 	return (0);
 }


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