[PATCH] net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler

A real world panic issue was found as follow in Linux 5.4.

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffde49a863de28
    PGD 7e6fe62067 P4D 7e6fe62067 PUD 7e6fe63067 PMD f51e064067 PTE 0
    RIP: 0010:tw_timer_handler+0x20/0x40
    Call Trace:
     <IRQ>
     call_timer_fn+0x2b/0x120
     run_timer_softirq+0x1ef/0x450
     __do_softirq+0x10d/0x2b8
     irq_exit+0xc7/0xd0
     smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x68/0x120
     apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20

This issue was also reported since 2017 in the thread [1],
unfortunately, the issue was still can be reproduced after fixing
DCCP.

The ipv4_mib_exit_net is called before tcp_sk_exit_batch when a net
namespace is destroyed since tcp_sk_ops is registered befrore
ipv4_mib_ops, which means tcp_sk_ops is in the front of ipv4_mib_ops
in the list of pernet_list. There will be a use-after-free on
net->mib.net_statistics in tw_timer_handler after ipv4_mib_exit_net
if there are some inflight time-wait timers.

This bug is not introduced by commit f2bf415cfed7 ("mib: add net to
NET_ADD_STATS_BH") since the net_statistics is a global variable
instead of dynamic allocation and freeing. Actually, commit
61a7e26028b9 ("mib: put net statistics on struct net") introduces
the bug since it put net statistics on struct net and free it when
net namespace is destroyed.

Moving init_ipv4_mibs() to the front of tcp_init() to fix this bug
and replace pr_crit() with panic() since continuing is meaningless
when init_ipv4_mibs() fails.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller/c/p1tn-_Kc6l4/m/smuL_FMAAgAJ?pli=1

Fixes: 61a7e26028b9 ("mib: put net statistics on struct net")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <redacted>
Cc: Cong Wang <redacted>
Cc: Fam Zheng <redacted>
Cc: <redacted>
---
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
index 04067b249bf3..cb8ba7a0a114 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c

@@ -1985,6 +1985,10 @@ static int __init inet_init(void)
 
 	ip_init();
 
+	/* Initialise per-cpu ipv4 mibs */
+	if (init_ipv4_mibs())
+		panic("%s: Cannot init ipv4 mibs\n", __func__);
+
 	/* Setup TCP slab cache for open requests. */
 	tcp_init();
 

@@ -2015,12 +2019,6 @@ static int __init inet_init(void)
 
 	if (init_inet_pernet_ops())
 		pr_crit("%s: Cannot init ipv4 inet pernet ops\n", __func__);
-	/*
-	 *	Initialise per-cpu ipv4 mibs
-	 */
-
-	if (init_ipv4_mibs())
-		pr_crit("%s: Cannot init ipv4 mibs\n", __func__);
 
 	ipv4_proc_init();
 

-- 
2.11.0

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref]:

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:41:45 +0800 you wrote:

A real world panic issue was found as follow in Linux 5.4.

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffde49a863de28
    PGD 7e6fe62067 P4D 7e6fe62067 PUD 7e6fe63067 PMD f51e064067 PTE 0
    RIP: 0010:tw_timer_handler+0x20/0x40
    Call Trace:
     <IRQ>
     call_timer_fn+0x2b/0x120
     run_timer_softirq+0x1ef/0x450
     __do_softirq+0x10d/0x2b8
     irq_exit+0xc7/0xd0
     smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x68/0x120
     apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20

[...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - net: fix use-after-free in tw_timer_handler
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/e22e45fc9e41

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