Patch "cifs: fix race between call_async() and reconnect()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cifs: fix race between call_async() and reconnect()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cifs-fix-race-between-call_async-and-reconnect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 820962dc700598ffe8cd21b967e30e7520c34748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:32:41 +0100
Subject: cifs: fix race between call_async() and reconnect()

From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>

commit 820962dc700598ffe8cd21b967e30e7520c34748 upstream.

cifs_call_async() queues the MID to the pending list and calls
smb_send_rqst().  If smb_send_rqst() performs a partial send, it sets
the tcpStatus to CifsNeedReconnect and returns an error code to
cifs_call_async().  In this case, cifs_call_async() removes the MID
from the list and returns to the caller.

However, cifs_call_async() releases the server mutex _before_ removing
the MID.  This means that a cifs_reconnect() can race with this function
and manage to remove the MID from the list and delete the entry before
cifs_call_async() calls cifs_delete_mid().  This leads to various
crashes due to the use after free in cifs_delete_mid().

Task1				Task2

cifs_call_async():
 - rc = -EAGAIN
 - mutex_unlock(srv_mutex)

				cifs_reconnect():
				 - mutex_lock(srv_mutex)
				 - mutex_unlock(srv_mutex)
				 - list_delete(mid)
				 - mid->callback()
				 	cifs_writev_callback():
				 		- mutex_lock(srv_mutex)
						- delete(mid)
				 		- mutex_unlock(srv_mutex)

 - cifs_delete_mid(mid) <---- use after free

Fix this by removing the MID in cifs_call_async() before releasing the
srv_mutex.  Also hold the srv_mutex in cifs_reconnect() until the MIDs
are moved out of the pending list.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/cifs/connect.c   |    2 +-
 fs/cifs/transport.c |    6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -368,7 +368,6 @@ cifs_reconnect(struct TCP_Server_Info *s
 	server->session_key.response = NULL;
 	server->session_key.len = 0;
 	server->lstrp = jiffies;
-	mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex);
 
 	/* mark submitted MIDs for retry and issue callback */
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&retry_list);
@@ -381,6 +380,7 @@ cifs_reconnect(struct TCP_Server_Info *s
 		list_move(&mid_entry->qhead, &retry_list);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex);
 
 	cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: issuing mid callbacks\n", __func__);
 	list_for_each_safe(tmp, tmp2, &retry_list) {
--- a/fs/cifs/transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c
@@ -576,14 +576,16 @@ cifs_call_async(struct TCP_Server_Info *
 	cifs_in_send_dec(server);
 	cifs_save_when_sent(mid);
 
-	if (rc < 0)
+	if (rc < 0) {
 		server->sequence_number -= 2;
+		cifs_delete_mid(mid);
+	}
+
 	mutex_unlock(&server->srv_mutex);
 
 	if (rc == 0)
 		return 0;
 
-	cifs_delete_mid(mid);
 	add_credits_and_wake_if(server, credits, optype);
 	return rc;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rabin.vincent@axis.com are

queue-4.4/cifs-fix-race-between-call_async-and-reconnect.patch