On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:52 AM Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 02:44:07PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> > Without holding transport to dereference its asoc, a use after
> > free panic can be caused in sctp_epaddr_lookup_transport. Note
> > that a sock lock can't protect these transports that belong to
> > other socks.
> >
> > A similar fix as Commit bab1be79a516 ("sctp: hold transport
> > before accessing its asoc in sctp_transport_get_next") is
> > needed to hold the transport before accessing its asoc in
> > sctp_epaddr_lookup_transport.
> >
> > Note that this extra atomic operation is on the datapath,
> > but as rhlist keeps the lists to a small size, it won't
> > see a noticeable performance hurt.
> >
> > v1->v2:
> > - improve the changelog.
> >
> > Fixes: 7fda702f9315 ("sctp: use new rhlist interface on sctp transport
> > rhashtable")
> > Reported-by: syzbot+aad231d51b1923158...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > net/sctp/input.c | 10 ++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/sctp/input.c b/net/sctp/input.c
> > index 5c36a99..ce7351c 100644
> > --- a/net/sctp/input.c
> > +++ b/net/sctp/input.c
> > @@ -967,9 +967,15 @@ struct sctp_transport *sctp_epaddr_lookup_transport(
> > list = rhltable_lookup(&sctp_transport_hashtable, &arg,
> > sctp_hash_params);
> >
> > - rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(t, tmp, list, node)
> > - if (ep == t->asoc->ep)
> > + rhl_for_each_entry_rcu(t, tmp, list, node) {
> > + if (!sctp_transport_hold(t))
> > + continue;
> > + if (ep == t->asoc->ep) {
> > + sctp_transport_put(t);
> > return t;
> > + }
> > + sctp_transport_put(t);
> > + }
> >
> > return NULL;
> > }
>
> Wait a second, what if we just added an rcu_head to the association structure
> and changed the kfree call in sctp_association_destroy to a kfree_rcu call
> instead? That would force the actual freeing of the association to pass
> through
> a grace period, during which any in flight list traversal in
> sctp_epaddr_lookup_transport could complete safely. Its another two pointers
We discussed this in last thread:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg535191.html
It will cause closed sk to linger longer.
> worth of space in the association, but I think that would be a worthwhile
> tradeoff for not having to do N atomic adds/puts every time you wanted to
> receive or send a frame.
N is not a big value, as rhlist itself keeps lists in a size.
>
> Neil
>
> > --
> > 2.1.0
> >
> >
