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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 16/17] hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:27:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211227151316.473350347@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211227151315.962187770@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>

commit b2f37aead1b82a770c48b5d583f35ec22aabb61e upstream.

The previous commit 3e0588c291d6 ("hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after
unregister_netdev") reorder the kfree operations and unregister_netdev
operation to prevent UAF.

This commit improves the previous one by also deferring the nullify of
the ax->tty pointer. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference bug occurs.
Partial of the stack trace is shown below.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000538
RIP: 0010:ax_xmit+0x1f9/0x400
...
Call Trace:
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xec/0x320
 sch_direct_xmit+0xea/0x240
 __qdisc_run+0x166/0x5c0
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x2c7/0xaf0
 ax25_std_establish_data_link+0x59/0x60
 ax25_connect+0x3a0/0x500
 ? security_socket_connect+0x2b/0x40
 __sys_connect+0x96/0xc0
 ? __hrtimer_init+0xc0/0xc0
 ? common_nsleep+0x2e/0x50
 ? switch_fpu_return+0x139/0x1a0
 __x64_sys_connect+0x11/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The crash point is shown as below

static void ax_encaps(...) {
  ...
  set_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &ax->tty->flags); // ax->tty = NULL!
  ...
}

By placing the nullify action after the unregister_netdev, the ax->tty
pointer won't be assigned as NULL net_device framework layer is well
synchronized.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
@@ -803,14 +803,14 @@ static void mkiss_close(struct tty_struc
 	 */
 	netif_stop_queue(ax->dev);
 
-	ax->tty = NULL;
-
 	unregister_netdev(ax->dev);
 
 	/* Free all AX25 frame buffers after unreg. */
 	kfree(ax->rbuff);
 	kfree(ax->xbuff);
 
+	ax->tty = NULL;
+
 	free_netdev(ax->dev);
 }
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-27 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-27 15:26 [PATCH 4.4 00/17] 4.4.297-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:26 ` [PATCH 4.4 01/17] net: usb: lan78xx: add Allied Telesis AT29M2-AF Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:26 ` [PATCH 4.4 02/17] can: kvaser_usb: get CAN clock frequency from device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:26 ` [PATCH 4.4 03/17] HID: holtek: fix mouse probing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:26 ` [PATCH 4.4 04/17] IB/qib: Fix memory leak in qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 05/17] qlcnic: potential dereference null pointer of rx_queue->page_ring Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 06/17] bonding: fix ad_actor_system option setting to default Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 07/17] drivers: net: smc911x: Check for error irq Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 08/17] hwmon: (lm90) Fix usage of CONFIG2 register in detect function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 09/17] ALSA: jack: Check the return value of kstrdup() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 10/17] ALSA: drivers: opl3: Fix incorrect use of vp->state Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 11/17] ARM: 9169/1: entry: fix Thumb2 bug in iWMMXt exception handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 12/17] xen/blkfront: fix bug in backported patch Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 13/17] Input: i8042 - enable deferred probe quirk for ASUS UM325UA Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 14/17] ax25: NPD bug when detaching AX25 device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 15/17] hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 15:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-12-27 15:27 ` [PATCH 4.4 17/17] phonet/pep: refuse to enable an unbound pipe Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-27 21:16 ` [PATCH 4.4 00/17] 4.4.297-rc1 review Pavel Machek
2021-12-28 17:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-12-28 17:16 ` Naresh Kamboju
2021-12-28 21:30 ` Shuah Khan
2022-01-19 10:28 ` 4.4 series end of line was " Pavel Machek
2022-01-19 10:32   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-19 13:49     ` Pavel Machek
2022-01-19 18:03       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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