Patch "tcp: reset sk_send_head in tcp_write_queue_purge" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tcp: reset sk_send_head in tcp_write_queue_purge

to the 4.14-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:
     tcp-reset-sk_send_head-in-tcp_write_queue_purge.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 foo@baz Wed Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018
From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:09:13 -0400
Subject: tcp: reset sk_send_head in tcp_write_queue_purge

From: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>


tcp_write_queue_purge clears all the SKBs in the write queue
but does not reset the sk_send_head. As a result, we can have
a NULL pointer dereference anywhere that we use tcp_send_head
instead of the tcp_write_queue_tail.

For example, after a27fd7a8ed38 (tcp: purge write queue upon RST),
we can purge the write queue on RST. Prior to
75c119afe14f (tcp: implement rb-tree based retransmit queue),
tcp_push will only check tcp_send_head and then accesses
tcp_write_queue_tail to send the actual SKB. As a result, it will
dereference a NULL pointer.

This has been reported twice for 4.14 where we don't have
75c119afe14f:

By Timofey Titovets:

[  422.081094] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at 0000000000000038
[  422.081254] IP: tcp_push+0x42/0x110
[  422.081314] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  422.081364] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI

By Yongjian Xu:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
IP: tcp_push+0x48/0x120
PGD 80000007ff77b067 P4D 80000007ff77b067 PUD 7fd989067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#18] SMP PTI
Modules linked in: tcp_diag inet_diag tcp_bbr sch_fq iTCO_wdt
iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr ixgbe mdio i2c_i801 lpc_ich joydev input_leds shpchp
e1000e igb dca ptp pps_core hwmon mei_me mei ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler sg ses
scsi_transport_sas enclosure ext4 jbd2 mbcache sd_mod ahci libahci megaraid_sas
wmi ast ttm dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod dax
CPU: 6 PID: 14156 Comm: [ET_NET 6] Tainted: G D 4.14.26-1.el6.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: LENOVO ThinkServer RD440 /ThinkServer RD440, BIOS A0TS80A
09/22/2014
task: ffff8807d78d8140 task.stack: ffffc9000e944000
RIP: 0010:tcp_push+0x48/0x120
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e947a88 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 00000000000005b4 RBX: ffff880f7cce9c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: ffff8807d00f5000
RBP: ffffc9000e947aa8 R08: 0000000000001c84 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8807d00f5158 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8807d00f5000
R13: 0000000000000020 R14: 00000000000256d4 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f5916de9700(0000) GS:ffff88107fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 00000007f8226004 CR4: 00000000001606e0
Call Trace:
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x33d/0xe50
tcp_sendmsg+0x37/0x60
inet_sendmsg+0x39/0xc0
sock_sendmsg+0x49/0x60
sock_write_iter+0xb6/0x100
do_iter_readv_writev+0xec/0x130
? rw_verify_area+0x49/0xb0
do_iter_write+0x97/0xd0
vfs_writev+0x7e/0xe0
? __wake_up_common_lock+0x80/0xa0
? __fget_light+0x2c/0x70
? __do_page_fault+0x1e7/0x530
do_writev+0x60/0xf0
? inet_shutdown+0xac/0x110
SyS_writev+0x10/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x140
? prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x8b/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
RIP: 0033:0x3135ce0c57
RSP: 002b:00007f5916de4b00 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000003135ce0c57
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007f5916de4b90 RDI: 000000000000606f
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f5916de8c38
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00000000000464cc
R13: 00007f5916de8c30 R14: 00007f58d8bef080 R15: 0000000000000002
Code: 48 8b 97 60 01 00 00 4c 8d 97 58 01 00 00 41 b9 00 00 00 00 41 89 f3 4c 39
d2 49 0f 44 d1 41 81 e3 00 80 00 00 0f 85 b0 00 00 00 <80> 4a 38 08 44 8b 8f 74
06 00 00 44 89 8f 7c 06 00 00 83 e6 01
RIP: tcp_push+0x48/0x120 RSP: ffffc9000e947a88
CR2: 0000000000000038
---[ end trace 8d545c2e93515549 ]---

Fixes: a27fd7a8ed38 (tcp: purge write queue upon RST)
Reported-by: Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yongjian Xu <yongjianchn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Tested-by: Yongjian Xu <yongjianchn@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 include/net/tcp.h |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -1600,6 +1600,11 @@ enum tcp_chrono {
 void tcp_chrono_start(struct sock *sk, const enum tcp_chrono type);
 void tcp_chrono_stop(struct sock *sk, const enum tcp_chrono type);
 
+static inline void tcp_init_send_head(struct sock *sk)
+{
+	sk->sk_send_head = NULL;
+}
+
 /* write queue abstraction */
 static inline void tcp_write_queue_purge(struct sock *sk)
 {
@@ -1610,6 +1615,7 @@ static inline void tcp_write_queue_purge
 		sk_wmem_free_skb(sk, skb);
 	sk_mem_reclaim(sk);
 	tcp_clear_all_retrans_hints(tcp_sk(sk));
+	tcp_init_send_head(sk);
 }
 
 static inline struct sk_buff *tcp_write_queue_head(const struct sock *sk)
@@ -1672,11 +1678,6 @@ static inline void tcp_check_send_head(s
 		tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack = NULL;
 }
 
-static inline void tcp_init_send_head(struct sock *sk)
-{
-	sk->sk_send_head = NULL;
-}
-
 static inline void __tcp_add_write_queue_tail(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	__skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_write_queue, skb);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from soheil@google.com are

queue-4.14/tcp-purge-write-queue-upon-aborting-the-connection.patch
queue-4.14/tcp-reset-sk_send_head-in-tcp_write_queue_purge.patch