Re: [PATCH 1/2] dccp: ccid: move timers to struct dccp_sock

Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-16T22:30:22Z

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:18:48 +0200 Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
> From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
>
> When dccps_hc_tx_ccid is freed, ccid timers may still trigger. The reason
> del_timer_sync can't be used is because this relies on keeping a reference
> to struct sock. But as we keep a pointer to dccps_hc_tx_ccid and free that
> during disconnect, the timer should really belong to struct dccp_sock.
>
> This addresses CVE-2020-16119.
>
> Fixes: 839a6094140a (net: dccp: Convert timers to use timer_setup())
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>

I've been mulling over this fix.

The layering violation really doesn't sit well.

We're reusing the timer object. What if we are really unlucky, the
fires and gets blocked by a cosmic ray just as it's about to try to
lock the socket, then user manages to reconnect, and timer starts
again. Potentially with a different CCID algo altogether?

Is disconnect ever called under the BH lock? Maybe plumb a bool
argument through to ccid*_hc_tx_exit() and do a sk_stop_timer_sync()
when called from disconnect()?

Or do refcounting on ccid_priv so that the timer holds both the socket
and the priv?