Sasha's found a NULL pointer dereference in the RDS connection code when
sending a message to an apparently unbound socket. The problem is caused
by the code checking if the socket is bound in rds_sendmsg(), which checks
the rs_bound_addr field without taking a lock on the socket. This opens a
race where rs_bound_addr is temporarily set but where the transport is not
in rds_bind(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference when trying to
dereference 'trans' in __rds_conn_create().
Vegard wrote a reproducer for this issue, so kindly ask him to share if
you're interested.
I cannot reproduce the NULL pointer dereference using Vegard's reproducer
with this patch, whereas I could without.
Complete earlier incomplete fix to CVE-2015-6937:
74e98eb08588 ("RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a
connection")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasno...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nos...@oracle.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Cc: Chien Yen <chien....@oracle.com>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilim...@oracle.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
---
net/rds/connection.c | 6 ------
net/rds/send.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index 49adeef..9b2de5e 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -190,12 +190,6 @@ new_conn:
}
}
- if (trans == NULL) {
- kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
- conn = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
- goto out;
- }
-
conn->c_trans = trans;
ret = trans->conn_alloc(conn, gfp);
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c
index 4df61a5..859de6f 100644
--- a/net/rds/send.c
+++ b/net/rds/send.c
@@ -1009,11 +1009,13 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr
*msg, size_t payload_len)
release_sock(sk);
}
- /* racing with another thread binding seems ok here */
+ lock_sock(sk);
if (daddr == 0 || rs->rs_bound_addr == 0) {
+ release_sock(sk);
ret = -ENOTCONN; /* XXX not a great errno */
goto out;
}
+ release_sock(sk);
if (payload_len > rds_sk_sndbuf(rs)) {
ret = -EMSGSIZE;
--
2.4.9
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