Re: [PATCH 1/1] sctp: Protect cached endpoints to prevent possible UAF
From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-12-09 12:22:00
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:02:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2021, Lee Jones wrote:quoted
The cause of the resultant dump_stack() reported below is a dereference of a freed pointer to 'struct sctp_endpoint' in sctp_sock_dump(). This race condition occurs when a transport is cached into its associated hash table then freed prior to its subsequent use in sctp_diag_dump() which uses sctp_for_each_transport() to walk the (now out of date) hash table calling into sctp_sock_dump() where the dereference occurs. To prevent this from happening we need to take a reference on the to-be-used/dereferenced 'struct sctp_endpoint' until such a time when we know it can be safely released. When KASAN is not enabled, a similar, but slightly different NULL pointer derefernce crash occurs later along the thread of execution in inet_sctp_diag_fill() this time. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag] Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2dc show_stack+0x20/0x2c dump_stack+0x120/0x144 print_address_description+0x80/0x2f4 __kasan_report+0x174/0x194 kasan_report+0x10/0x18 __asan_load8+0x84/0x8c sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag] sctp_for_each_transport+0x1e0/0x26c [sctp] sctp_diag_dump+0x180/0x1f0 [sctp_diag] inet_diag_dump+0x12c/0x168 netlink_dump+0x24c/0x5b8 __netlink_dump_start+0x274/0x2a8 inet_diag_handler_cmd+0x224/0x274 sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x230 netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x1bc sock_diag_rcv+0x34/0x48 netlink_unicast+0x3b4/0x430 netlink_sendmsg+0x4f0/0x574 sock_write_iter+0x18c/0x1f0 do_iter_readv_writev+0x230/0x2a8 do_iter_write+0xc8/0x2b4 vfs_writev+0xf8/0x184 do_writev+0xb0/0x1a8 __arm64_sys_writev+0x4c/0x5c el0_svc_common+0x118/0x250 el0_svc_handler+0x3c/0x9c el0_svc+0x8/0xcThis looks related (reported 3 years ago!) https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181122131344.GD31918@localhost.localdomain/ (local)
Agree, seems related. Thanks for root causing it.