Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2022-07-03

Re: [PATCH v4] net: rose: fix null-ptr-deref caused by rose_kill_by_neigh

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-07-02 02:42:06
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:49:41 +0800 Duoming Zhou wrote:
When the link layer connection is broken, the rose->neighbour is
set to null. But rose->neighbour could be used by rose_connection()
and rose_release() later, because there is no synchronization among
them. As a result, the null-ptr-deref bugs will happen.

One of the null-ptr-deref bugs is shown below:

    (thread 1)                  |        (thread 2)
                                |  rose_connect
rose_kill_by_neigh              |    lock_sock(sk)
  spin_lock_bh(&rose_list_lock) |    if (!rose->neighbour)
  rose->neighbour = NULL;//(1)  |
                                |    rose->neighbour->use++;//(2)
 		if (rose->neighbour == neigh) {
Why is it okay to perform this comparison without the socket lock,
if we need a socket lock to clear it? Looks like rose_kill_by_neigh()
is not guaranteed to clear all the uses of a neighbor.
+			sock_hold(s);
+			spin_unlock_bh(&rose_list_lock);
+			lock_sock(s);
 			rose_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH, ROSE_OUT_OF_ORDER, 0);
 			rose->neighbour->use--;
What protects the use counter?
 			rose->neighbour = NULL;
+			release_sock(s);
+			spin_lock_bh(&rose_list_lock);
Don't take the lock here just dump one line further back.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+			sock_put(s);
+			goto again;
 		}
 	}
 	spin_unlock_bh(&rose_list_lock);
diff --git a/net/rose/rose_route.c b/net/rose/rose_route.c
index fee6409c2bb..b116828b422 100644
--- a/net/rose/rose_route.c
+++ b/net/rose/rose_route.c
@@ -827,7 +827,9 @@ void rose_link_failed(ax25_cb *ax25, int reason)
 		ax25_cb_put(ax25);
 
 		rose_del_route_by_neigh(rose_neigh);
+		spin_unlock_bh(&rose_neigh_list_lock);
 		rose_kill_by_neigh(rose_neigh);
+		return;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_bh(&rose_neigh_list_lock);
 }
  
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