Commit b8ff93b5 authored by Quentin Casasnovas's avatar Quentin Casasnovas Committed by Luis Henriques

RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket

commit 8c7188b2 upstream.

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:

  74e98eb0 ("RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection")

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
parent b501ae8f
......@@ -183,12 +183,6 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(__be32 laddr, __be32 faddr,
}
}
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);
......
......@@ -955,11 +955,13 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
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);
/* size of rm including all sgs */
ret = rds_rm_size(msg, payload_len);
......
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