[PATCH net] tipc: increment the tmp aead refcnt before attaching it

Subsystems: networking [general], the rest, tipc network layer

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2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-04-06 · open the first message on its own page

[PATCH net] tipc: increment the tmp aead refcnt before attaching it

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-04-06 02:45:35

Li Shuang found a NULL pointer dereference crash in her testing:

  [] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
  [] RIP: 0010:tipc_crypto_rcv_complete+0xc8/0x7e0 [tipc]
  [] Call Trace:
  []  <IRQ>
  []  tipc_crypto_rcv+0x2d9/0x8f0 [tipc]
  []  tipc_rcv+0x2fc/0x1120 [tipc]
  []  tipc_udp_recv+0xc6/0x1e0 [tipc]
  []  udpv6_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x16a/0x460
  []  udp6_unicast_rcv_skb.isra.35+0x41/0xa0
  []  ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x23b/0x4c0
  []  ip6_input+0x3d/0xb0
  []  ipv6_rcv+0x395/0x510
  []  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x5fc/0xc40

This is caused by NULL returned by tipc_aead_get(), and then crashed when
dereferencing it later in tipc_crypto_rcv_complete(). This might happen
when tipc_crypto_rcv_complete() is called by two threads at the same time:
the tmp attached by tipc_crypto_key_attach() in one thread may be released
by the one attached by that in the other thread.

This patch is to fix it by incrementing the tmp's refcnt before attaching
it instead of calling tipc_aead_get() after attaching it.

Fixes: fc1b6d6de220 ("tipc: introduce TIPC encryption & authentication")
Reported-by: Li Shuang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
---
 net/tipc/crypto.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/tipc/crypto.c b/net/tipc/crypto.c
index f4fca8f..97710ce 100644
--- a/net/tipc/crypto.c
+++ b/net/tipc/crypto.c
@@ -1941,12 +1941,13 @@ static void tipc_crypto_rcv_complete(struct net *net, struct tipc_aead *aead,
 			goto rcv;
 		if (tipc_aead_clone(&tmp, aead) < 0)
 			goto rcv;
+		WARN_ON(!refcount_inc_not_zero(&tmp->refcnt));
 		if (tipc_crypto_key_attach(rx, tmp, ehdr->tx_key, false) < 0) {
 			tipc_aead_free(&tmp->rcu);
 			goto rcv;
 		}
 		tipc_aead_put(aead);
-		aead = tipc_aead_get(tmp);
+		aead = tmp;
 	}
 
 	if (unlikely(err)) {
-- 
2.1.0

Re: [PATCH net] tipc: increment the tmp aead refcnt before attaching it

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-04-06 23:30:14

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):

On Tue,  6 Apr 2021 10:45:23 +0800 you wrote:
Li Shuang found a NULL pointer dereference crash in her testing:

  [] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
  [] RIP: 0010:tipc_crypto_rcv_complete+0xc8/0x7e0 [tipc]
  [] Call Trace:
  []  <IRQ>
  []  tipc_crypto_rcv+0x2d9/0x8f0 [tipc]
  []  tipc_rcv+0x2fc/0x1120 [tipc]
  []  tipc_udp_recv+0xc6/0x1e0 [tipc]
  []  udpv6_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x16a/0x460
  []  udp6_unicast_rcv_skb.isra.35+0x41/0xa0
  []  ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x23b/0x4c0
  []  ip6_input+0x3d/0xb0
  []  ipv6_rcv+0x395/0x510
  []  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x5fc/0xc40

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] tipc: increment the tmp aead refcnt before attaching it
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2a2403ca3add

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