Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in rds_tcp_tune

Sowmini Varadhan
2018-01-12T18:30:24Z

On (01/11/18 21:29), syzbot wrote:
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rds_tcp_tune+0x491/0x520 net/rds/tcp.c:397
> Read of size 4 at addr ffff8801cd5f6c58 by task kworker/u4:4/4954

Just had an offline discussion with santosh around this, here's a summary
of that discussion for the archives:

Looks like an rds_connect_worker workq got scheduled after the
netns was deleted. This could happen if an an rds_connection got
added between lines 528 and 529 of

506 static void rds_tcp_kill_sock(struct net *net)
:
/* code to pull out all the rds_connections that should be destroyed */
:
528 spin_unlock_irq(&rds_tcp_conn_lock);
529 list_for_each_entry_safe(tc, _tc, &tmp_list, t_tcp_node)
530 rds_conn_destroy(tc->t_cpath->cp_conn);

Such an rds_connection would miss out the rds_conn_destroy()
loop (that cancels all pending work) and (if it was scheduled
after netns deletion) could trigger the use-after-free.

Evaluating various fixes for this (including using _bh instead of _irq
as suggested by santosh), I'll get back with a patch soon.

--Sowmini