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ax25: improve the incomplete fix to avoid UAF and NPD bugs
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The previous commit 1ade48d ("ax25: NPD bug when detaching
AX25 device") introduce lock_sock() into ax25_kill_by_device to
prevent NPD bug. But the concurrency NPD or UAF bug will occur,
when lock_sock() or release_sock() dereferences the ax25_cb->sock.

The NULL pointer dereference bug can be shown as below:

ax25_kill_by_device()        | ax25_release()
                             |   ax25_destroy_socket()
                             |     ax25_cb_del()
  ...                        |     ...
                             |     ax25->sk=NULL;
  lock_sock(s->sk); //(1)    |
  s->ax25_dev = NULL;        |     ...
  release_sock(s->sk); //(2) |
  ...                        |

The root cause is that the sock is set to null before dereference
site (1) or (2). Therefore, this patch extracts the ax25_cb->sock
in advance, and uses ax25_list_lock to protect it, which can synchronize
with ax25_cb_del() and ensure the value of sock is not null before
dereference sites.

The concurrency UAF bug can be shown as below:

ax25_kill_by_device()        | ax25_release()
                             |   ax25_destroy_socket()
  ...                        |   ...
                             |   sock_put(sk); //FREE
  lock_sock(s->sk); //(1)    |
  s->ax25_dev = NULL;        |   ...
  release_sock(s->sk); //(2) |
  ...                        |

The root cause is that the sock is released before dereference
site (1) or (2). Therefore, this patch uses sock_hold() to increase
the refcount of sock and uses ax25_list_lock to protect it, which
can synchronize with ax25_cb_del() in ax25_destroy_socket() and
ensure the sock wil not be released before dereference sites.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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stonezdm authored and gregkh committed Feb 23, 2022
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9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions net/ax25/af_ax25.c
Expand Up @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static void ax25_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev)
{
ax25_dev *ax25_dev;
ax25_cb *s;
struct sock *sk;

if ((ax25_dev = ax25_dev_ax25dev(dev)) == NULL)
return;
Expand All @@ -85,13 +86,15 @@ static void ax25_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev)
again:
ax25_for_each(s, &ax25_list) {
if (s->ax25_dev == ax25_dev) {
sk = s->sk;
sock_hold(sk);
spin_unlock_bh(&ax25_list_lock);
lock_sock(s->sk);
lock_sock(sk);
s->ax25_dev = NULL;
release_sock(s->sk);
release_sock(sk);
ax25_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH);
spin_lock_bh(&ax25_list_lock);

sock_put(sk);
/* The entry could have been deleted from the
* list meanwhile and thus the next pointer is
* no longer valid. Play it safe and restart
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