Re: [PATCH 1/1] sctp: Protect cached endpoints to prevent possible UAF

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 08 Dec 2021, Lee Jones wrote:

> The cause of the resultant dump_stack() reported below is a
> dereference of a freed pointer to 'struct sctp_endpoint' in
> sctp_sock_dump().
> 
> This race condition occurs when a transport is cached into its
> associated hash table then freed prior to its subsequent use in
> sctp_diag_dump() which uses sctp_for_each_transport() to walk the
> (now out of date) hash table calling into sctp_sock_dump() where the
> dereference occurs.
> 
> To prevent this from happening we need to take a reference on the
> to-be-used/dereferenced 'struct sctp_endpoint' until such a time when
> we know it can be safely released.
> 
> When KASAN is not enabled, a similar, but slightly different NULL
> pointer derefernce crash occurs later along the thread of execution in
> inet_sctp_diag_fill() this time.
> 
>   BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag]
>   Call trace:
>    dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2dc
>    show_stack+0x20/0x2c
>    dump_stack+0x120/0x144
>    print_address_description+0x80/0x2f4
>    __kasan_report+0x174/0x194
>    kasan_report+0x10/0x18
>    __asan_load8+0x84/0x8c
>    sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag]
>    sctp_for_each_transport+0x1e0/0x26c [sctp]
>    sctp_diag_dump+0x180/0x1f0 [sctp_diag]
>    inet_diag_dump+0x12c/0x168
>    netlink_dump+0x24c/0x5b8
>    __netlink_dump_start+0x274/0x2a8
>    inet_diag_handler_cmd+0x224/0x274
>    sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x230
>    netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x1bc
>    sock_diag_rcv+0x34/0x48
>    netlink_unicast+0x3b4/0x430
>    netlink_sendmsg+0x4f0/0x574
>    sock_write_iter+0x18c/0x1f0
>    do_iter_readv_writev+0x230/0x2a8
>    do_iter_write+0xc8/0x2b4
>    vfs_writev+0xf8/0x184
>    do_writev+0xb0/0x1a8
>    __arm64_sys_writev+0x4c/0x5c
>    el0_svc_common+0x118/0x250
>    el0_svc_handler+0x3c/0x9c
>    el0_svc+0x8/0xc

This looks related (reported 3 years ago!)

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181122131344.GD31918@localhost.localdomain/

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