Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2019-06-10
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[PATCH] sctp: Add rcu lock to protect dst entry in sctp_transport_route

From: Su Yanjun <hidden>
Date: 2019-06-10 03:24:27
Also in: linux-sctp, lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds

syzbot found a crash in rt_cache_valid. Problem is that when more
threads release dst in sctp_transport_route, the route cache can
be freed.

As follows,
p1:
sctp_transport_route
  dst_release
  get_dst

p2:
sctp_transport_route
  dst_release
  get_dst
...

If enough threads calling dst_release will cause dst->refcnt==0
then rcu softirq will reclaim the dst entry,get_dst then use
the freed memory.

This patch adds rcu lock to protect the dst_entry here.

Fixes: 6e91b578bf3f("sctp: re-use sctp_transport_pmtu in sctp_transport_route")
Signed-off-by: Su Yanjun <redacted>
Reported-by: syzbot+a9e23ea2aa21044c2798@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
---
 net/sctp/transport.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/transport.c b/net/sctp/transport.c
index ad158d3..5ad7e20 100644
--- a/net/sctp/transport.c
+++ b/net/sctp/transport.c
@@ -308,8 +308,13 @@ void sctp_transport_route(struct sctp_transport *transport,
 	struct sctp_association *asoc = transport->asoc;
 	struct sctp_af *af = transport->af_specific;
 
+	/* When dst entry is being released, route cache may be referred
+	 * again. Add rcu lock here to protect dst entry.
+	 */
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	sctp_transport_dst_release(transport);
 	af->get_dst(transport, saddr, &transport->fl, sctp_opt2sk(opt));
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (saddr)
 		memcpy(&transport->saddr, saddr, sizeof(union sctp_addr));
-- 
2.7.4


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