apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach

commit ab09264660f9de5d05d1ef4e225aa447c63a8747 upstream.

The profile removal code uses recursion when removing nested profiles,
which can lead to kernel stack exhaustion and system crashes.

Reproducer:
  $ pf='a'; for ((i=0; i<1024; i++)); do
      echo -e "profile $pf { \n }" | apparmor_parser -K -a;
      pf="$pf//x";
  done
  $ echo -n a > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove

Replace the recursive __aa_profile_list_release() approach with an
iterative approach in __remove_profile(). The function repeatedly
finds and removes leaf profiles until the entire subtree is removed,
maintaining the same removal semantic without recursion.

BUG=None
TEST=presubmit
RELEASE_NOTE=Fixed the "CrackArmor" vulnerability in the Linux kernel.

cos-patch: security-high
Fixes: c88d4c7b049e ("AppArmor: core policy routines")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Change-Id: I3571b963b19c0b3623f96bde816d66e7bc4732d7
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 999bd704b0b641527a5ed46f0d969deff8cfa68b)
Signed-off-by: Robert Kolchmeyer <rkolchmeyer@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cos-review.googlesource.com/c/third_party/kernel/+/137843
Reviewed-by: He Gao <hegao@google.com>
Tested-by: Cusky Presubmit Bot <presubmit@cos-infra-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
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