[PATCH 3.4 079/107] RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket

lizf
2016-03-16T08:22:04Z

From: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>

3.4.111-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit 8c7188b23474cca017b3ef354c4a58456f68303a upstream.

Sasha's found a NULL pointer dereference in the RDS connection code when
sending a message to an apparently unbound socket. The problem is caused
by the code checking if the socket is bound in rds_sendmsg(), which checks
the rs_bound_addr field without taking a lock on the socket. This opens a
race where rs_bound_addr is temporarily set but where the transport is not
in rds_bind(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference when trying to
dereference 'trans' in __rds_conn_create().

Vegard wrote a reproducer for this issue, so kindly ask him to share if
you're interested.

I cannot reproduce the NULL pointer dereference using Vegard's reproducer
with this patch, whereas I could without.

Complete earlier incomplete fix to CVE-2015-6937:

74e98eb08588 ("RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection")

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
net/rds/connection.c | 6 ------
net/rds/send.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index be3eecd..9e07c75 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -178,12 +178,6 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(__be32 laddr, __be32 faddr,
}
}

- if (trans == NULL) {
- kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
- conn = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
- goto out;
- }
-
conn->c_trans = trans;

ret = trans->conn_alloc(conn, gfp);
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 88eace5..31c9fa4 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -955,11 +955,13 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
release_sock(sk);
}

- /* racing with another thread binding seems ok here */
+ lock_sock(sk);
if (daddr == 0 || rs->rs_bound_addr == 0) {
+ release_sock(sk);
ret = -ENOTCONN; /* XXX not a great errno */
goto out;
}
+ release_sock(sk);

/* size of rm including all sgs */
ret = rds_rm_size(msg, payload_len);
--
1.9.1