Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2021-09-07

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 13/14] net: fix NULL pointer reference in cipso_v4_doi_free

From: Dongliang Mu <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-30 12:42:41
Also in: linux-security-module, lkml, stable

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 8:01 PM Sasha Levin [off-list ref] wrote:
From: 王贇 <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 733c99ee8be9a1410287cdbb943887365e83b2d6 ]
Hi Sasha,

Michael Wang has sent a v2 patch [1] for this bug and it is merged
into netdev/net-next.git. However, the v1 patch is already in the
upstream tree.

How do you guys handle such a issue?

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/30/229
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In netlbl_cipsov4_add_std() when 'doi_def->map.std' alloc
failed, we sometime observe panic:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
  ...
  RIP: 0010:cipso_v4_doi_free+0x3a/0x80
  ...
  Call Trace:
   netlbl_cipsov4_add_std+0xf4/0x8c0
   netlbl_cipsov4_add+0x13f/0x1b0
   genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x132/0x170
   genl_rcv_msg+0x125/0x240

This is because in cipso_v4_doi_free() there is no check
on 'doi_def->map.std' when 'doi_def->type' equal 1, which
is possibe, since netlbl_cipsov4_add_std() haven't initialize
it before alloc 'doi_def->map.std'.

This patch just add the check to prevent panic happen for similar
cases.

Reported-by: Abaci <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
index e0480c6cebaa..16bbd62db791 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
@@ -466,14 +466,16 @@ void cipso_v4_doi_free(struct cipso_v4_doi *doi_def)
        if (!doi_def)
                return;

-       switch (doi_def->type) {
-       case CIPSO_V4_MAP_TRANS:
-               kfree(doi_def->map.std->lvl.cipso);
-               kfree(doi_def->map.std->lvl.local);
-               kfree(doi_def->map.std->cat.cipso);
-               kfree(doi_def->map.std->cat.local);
-               kfree(doi_def->map.std);
-               break;
+       if (doi_def->map.std) {
+               switch (doi_def->type) {
+               case CIPSO_V4_MAP_TRANS:
+                       kfree(doi_def->map.std->lvl.cipso);
+                       kfree(doi_def->map.std->lvl.local);
+                       kfree(doi_def->map.std->cat.cipso);
+                       kfree(doi_def->map.std->cat.local);
+                       kfree(doi_def->map.std);
+                       break;
+               }
        }
        kfree(doi_def);
 }
--
2.30.2
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