Commit dce1c887 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Ben Hutchings

tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()

commit bb1fceca upstream.

When tcp_sendmsg() allocates a fresh and empty skb, it puts it at the
tail of the write queue using tcp_add_write_queue_tail()

Then it attempts to copy user data into this fresh skb.

If the copy fails, we undo the work and remove the fresh skb.

Unfortunately, this undo lacks the change done to tp->highest_sack and
we can leave a dangling pointer (to a freed skb)

Later, tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() can dereference this pointer and
access freed memory. For regular kernels where memory is not unmapped,
this might cause SACK bugs because tcp_highest_sack_seq() is buggy,
returning garbage instead of tp->snd_nxt, but with various debug
features like CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, this can crash the kernel.

This bug was found by Marco Grassi thanks to syzkaller.

Fixes: 6859d494 ("[TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb")
Reported-by: default avatarMarco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent a9d438ce
......@@ -1293,6 +1293,8 @@ static inline void tcp_check_send_head(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb_unli
{
if (sk->sk_send_head == skb_unlinked)
sk->sk_send_head = NULL;
if (tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack == skb_unlinked)
tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack = NULL;
}
static inline void tcp_init_send_head(struct sock *sk)
......
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