From fa0b9b2b7ae3539908d69c2b9ac0d144d9bc5139 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linpu Yu Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 13:43:30 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ipc: limit next_id allocation to the valid ID range 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: 03f595668017 ("ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id") Signed-off-by: Linpu Yu Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Reported-by: Yuan Tan Reported-by: Yifan Wu Reported-by: Juefei Pu Reported-by: Xin Liu Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- ipc/util.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c index 9eb89820594e..1737d776bc08 100644 --- a/ipc/util.c +++ b/ipc/util.c @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static inline int ipc_idr_alloc(struct ipc_ids *ids, struct kern_ipc_perm *new) } else { new->seq = ipcid_to_seqx(next_id); idx = idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, ipcid_to_idx(next_id), - 0, GFP_NOWAIT); + ipc_mni, GFP_NOWAIT); } if (idx >= 0) new->id = (new->seq << ipcmni_seq_shift()) + idx;