tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:56:26 +0000 (05:56 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:01:33 +0000 (01:01 +0000)
commitdce1c887660cb96ee0ba5e3751aa6845589c6fec
tree4498c32f5dc407c3ae16d06ef293ad0635f54ceb
parenta9d438ce4d098d5924338053eed443f4e5036c97
tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()

commit bb1fceca22492109be12640d49f5ea5a544c6bb4 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: 6859d49475d4 ("[TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb")
Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric 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: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/net/tcp.h