From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v2 00/16] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet handling
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:22:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710192220.1922433-1-dhowells@redhat.com> (raw)
Here's a fix for AF_RXRPC's CHALLENGE packet handling, addressing an issue
raised by Sashiko[1], plus some miscellaneous fixes found in the process of
fixing this, plus a number of things raised by Sashiko[2][3].
Firstly, the miscellaneous patches:
(1) Fix a NULL deref in afs_deliver_cb_init_call_back_state3().
(2) Fix rxrpc_sendmsg so that it doesn't return an error if it queued the
last packet of a call. After that point, the error will be returned
by recvmsg() and returned it twice in two different places may
complicate userspace cleaning up its own structures.
(3) Fix a UAF in afs_make_call() whereby it looks at the call after the
first send (of the request) completes to see if it should make a
second send (e.g. for FS.StoreData content) - but the call may have
been freed if the first send wasn't marked MSG_MORE.
(4) Fix a couple of afs request delivery functions to pass back -EAGAIN if
insufficient data is yet received.
(5) Fix afs_fs_fetch_data() to set call->async on calls marked as being
asynchronous.
(6) Fix error handling in rxrpc_send_data() for if ->secure_packet()
returns an error.
(7) Fix the update of call->pending in rxrpc_send_data() in paths when the
call lock has been dropped.
(8) Fix the generation of notifications from rxrpc after call completion.
(9) Simplify afs_call refcounting to avoid trying to take refs when async
call notifications come in, and worse trying to get rid of them again
safely if the notifier work item is already queued. This is not
technically a bug fix, but the cleanup made patch 11 easier to handle.
(10) Make afs_put_call() use an enum value to indicate when it happens
rather than recording the function return address as the return
address isn't sufficiently unique if functions get inlined or
tail-called by the compiler. This is not a bug fix, but it made it
easier to debug the problem that patch 11 fixes.
(11) Fix another UAF in afs_make_call() whereby the function tries to abort
a call if the send fails, but the call may get torn down by async
notification before we get there.
And then there are the patches to fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and
simplify RESPONSE packet generation by pre-creating the RxGK application
data up front and passing it in a user key (thereby allowing userspace to
partake). This is split into five patches:
(12) Add a refcount to the user key payload.
(13) Make the AFS filesystem generate per-server appdata keys.
(14) Pass the appdata from AFS (or userspace) to rxrpc.
(15) Change over to using the appdata key to supply the appdata.
(16) Remove all the OOB stuff.
[!] Note that this entails a significant change in the UAPI for AF_RXRPC,
with the CMSG types and sockopt to support the OOB queuing being removed
and replaced with a new single CMSG type that conveys the user key ID. I
don't think it likely anyone is using this outside of my kafs-utils
package.
This also involves a change to the user-defined key type, making the
payload refcounted so that it can be accessed and the length read, then a
buffer allocated that will hold it and other data, and then the content
copied. The problem is that the user is perfectly at liberty to change the
content of a user-defined key (which will RCU-replace the content of the
key), so the length might change when we drop the RCU read lock in order to
allocate. This could be got around by locking the key->rwsem sharedly, but
that might be able to deadlock part of the rxrpc protocol engine if memory
reclaim occurs.
David
The patches can be found here also:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=rxrpc-fixes
Changes
=======
ver #2)
- Split the CHALLENGE/RESPONSE fix into smaller patches.
- Fixed more Sashiko-reported bugs[2][3]:
- Added some more patches to fix some more bugs.
- Get rid of the AFS_SERVER_FL_APPDATA flag and check the pointer to the
appdata instead.
- Rename the appdata key pointer in the AFS_SERVER to reflect this one is
only for the YFS-RxGK security class.
- Use barriers when reading or writing the server appdata key pointer.
- Ignore the appdata for RxNULL, RxKAD and OpenAFS's RxGK for now.
- Check that sendmsg() with RXRPC_RESPONSE_APPDATA is passed a user key.
- Check that the appdata key's payload isn't NULL, for instance if it
gets revoked.
- Add some error path key_put()s in rxrpc_do_sendmsg().
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260624163819.3017002-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
[2] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260702144919.172295-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
[3] https://netdev-ai.bots.linux.dev/sashiko/#/patchset/20260702144919.172295-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
David Howells (16):
afs: Fix NULL deref in afs_deliver_cb_init_call_back_state3()
rxrpc: Fix sendmsg to not return an error if last packet queued
afs: Fix UAF when sending a message
afs: Fix two delivery functions to pass back -EAGAIN
afs: Fix afs_fs_fetch_data() to set call->async
rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling
rxrpc: Fix update of call->tx_pending without holding lock
rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion
afs: Simplify call refcounting
afs: Make afs_put_call() take trace argument
afs: Fix UAF in afs_make_call()
keys: Add refcounting to user-defined key type payload
afs: Create a server appdata key
rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle
rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE
generation
rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code
fs/afs/cm_security.c | 311 +++++++++++++---------------
fs/afs/cmservice.c | 50 ++---
fs/afs/file.c | 12 +-
fs/afs/fs_operation.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/fs_probe.c | 5 +
fs/afs/fsclient.c | 7 +-
fs/afs/internal.h | 63 +++---
fs/afs/main.c | 1 -
fs/afs/rxrpc.c | 137 +++++--------
fs/afs/server.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/vl_probe.c | 2 +-
fs/afs/vlclient.c | 8 +-
include/keys/user-type.h | 2 +
include/net/af_rxrpc.h | 21 +-
include/trace/events/afs.h | 46 +++--
include/trace/events/rxrpc.h | 4 +-
include/uapi/linux/rxrpc.h | 6 +-
net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 1 +
net/rxrpc/Makefile | 1 -
net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c | 49 +----
net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 23 +--
net/rxrpc/call_object.c | 2 +
net/rxrpc/call_state.c | 57 +++++-
net/rxrpc/conn_client.c | 2 +
net/rxrpc/conn_event.c | 68 +-----
net/rxrpc/key.c | 37 ++++
net/rxrpc/oob.c | 387 -----------------------------------
net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c | 126 ++----------
net/rxrpc/rxgk.c | 128 +++---------
net/rxrpc/rxkad.c | 27 ---
net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 107 +++++++---
net/rxrpc/server_key.c | 40 ----
security/keys/user_defined.c | 23 ++-
33 files changed, 546 insertions(+), 1211 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 net/rxrpc/oob.c
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-10 19:22 David Howells [this message]
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 01/16] afs: Fix NULL deref in afs_deliver_cb_init_call_back_state3() David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 02/16] rxrpc: Fix sendmsg to not return an error if last packet queued David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 03/16] afs: Fix UAF when sending a message David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 04/16] afs: Fix two delivery functions to pass back -EAGAIN David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 05/16] afs: Fix afs_fs_fetch_data() to set call->async David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 06/16] rxrpc: Fix packet encryption error handling David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 07/16] rxrpc: Fix update of call->tx_pending without holding lock David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 08/16] rxrpc: Fix generation of notifications after call completion David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 09/16] afs: Simplify call refcounting David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 10/16] afs: Make afs_put_call() take trace argument David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 11/16] afs: Fix UAF in afs_make_call() David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 12/16] keys: Add refcounting to user-defined key type payload David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 13/16] afs: Create a server appdata key David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 14/16] rxrpc: Pass appdata key to rxrpc_call and thence to rxrpc_bundle David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 15/16] rxrpc: Fix CHALLENGE packet overqueuing and simplify RESPONSE generation David Howells
2026-07-10 19:22 ` [PATCH net v2 16/16] rxrpc: Remove OOB challenge/response code David Howells
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