Re: [PATCH] udp6: Fix race condition in udp6_sendmsg & connect

Paolo Abeni
2023-05-26T15:34:38Z

On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 18:08 +0300, Vladislav Efanov wrote:
> Syzkaller got the following report:
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sk_setup_caps+0x621/0x690 net/core/sock.c:2018
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff888027f82780 by task syz-executor276/3255
>
> The function sk_setup_caps (called by ip6_sk_dst_store_flow->
> ip6_dst_store) referenced already freed memory as this memory was
> freed by parallel task in udpv6_sendmsg->ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow->
> sk_dst_check.
>
> task1 (connect) task2 (udp6_sendmsg)
> sk_setup_caps->sk_dst_set |
> | sk_dst_check->
> | sk_dst_set
> | dst_release
> sk_setup_caps references |
> to already freed dst_entry|
>
> The reason for this race condition is: udp6_sendmsg() calls
> ip6_sk_dst_lookup() without lock for sock structure and tries to
> allocate/add dst_entry structure to sock structure in parallel with
> "connect" task.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with syzkaller.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Efanov <VEfanov@ispras.ru>

Thank you for the detailed report!

> ---
> net/ipv6/udp.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> index e5a337e6b970..a5ecd5d93b0a 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> @@ -1563,12 +1563,15 @@ int udpv6_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
>
> fl6->flowlabel = ip6_make_flowinfo(ipc6.tclass, fl6->flowlabel);
>
> + lock_sock(sk);

Acquiring the socket lock in this fast-path is going to kill the xmit
performances, I think we can't do that.

What about something like the following instead? Does that addresses
the UaF? (completely untested, not even built ;) If so, feel free to
take it over.

Thanks.

Paolo
---
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 5440e67bcfe3..24f2761bdb1d 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -2381,7 +2381,6 @@ void sk_setup_caps(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst)
{
u32 max_segs = 1;

- sk_dst_set(sk, dst);
sk->sk_route_caps = dst->dev->features;
if (sk_is_tcp(sk))
sk->sk_route_caps |= NETIF_F_GSO;
@@ -2400,6 +2399,7 @@ void sk_setup_caps(struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst)
}
}
sk->sk_gso_max_segs = max_segs;
+ sk_dst_set(sk, dst);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_setup_caps);