Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix udpv6 sendmsg crash caused by too small MTU

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 12:10 -0500, Mike Maloney wrote:
> From: Mike Maloney <maloney@google.com>
> 
> The logic in __ip6_append_data() assumes that the MTU is at least large
> enough for the headers.  A device's MTU may be adjusted after being
> added while sendmsg() is processing data, resulting in
> __ip6_append_data() seeing any MTU.  For an mtu smaller than the size of
> the fragmentation header, the math results in a negative 'maxfraglen',
> which causes problems when refragmenting any previous skb in the
> skb_write_queue, leaving it possibly malformed.
> 
> Instead sendmsg returns EINVAL when the mtu is calculated to be less
> than IPV6_MIN_MTU.
> 

You forgot your SOB

> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
> ---

Also please add after this '---' marker that your patch depends on my
prior fix ( https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/858234/ 
ipv6: fix possible mem leaks in ipv6_make_skb() )

( Or we leak a dst reference )

We probably should have sent a patch series.

Thanks.

>  net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
> index f7dd51c42314..f309ce7120d0 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
> @@ -1206,14 +1206,16 @@ static int ip6_setup_cork(struct sock *sk, struct inet_cork_full *cork,
>  	v6_cork->tclass = ipc6->tclass;
>  	if (rt->dst.flags & DST_XFRM_TUNNEL)
>  		mtu = np->pmtudisc >= IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE ?
> -		      rt->dst.dev->mtu : dst_mtu(&rt->dst);
> +		      READ_ONCE(rt->dst.dev->mtu) : dst_mtu(&rt->dst);
>  	else
>  		mtu = np->pmtudisc >= IPV6_PMTUDISC_PROBE ?
> -		      rt->dst.dev->mtu : dst_mtu(rt->dst.path);
> +		      READ_ONCE(rt->dst.dev->mtu) : dst_mtu(rt->dst.path);
>  	if (np->frag_size < mtu) {
>  		if (np->frag_size)
>  			mtu = np->frag_size;
>  	}
> +	if (mtu < IPV6_MIN_MTU)
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  	cork->base.fragsize = mtu;
>  	if (dst_allfrag(rt->dst.path))
>  		cork->base.flags |= IPCORK_ALLFRAG;