Re: use-after-free in sock_wake_async

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Nov 24 2015 - 17:03:20 EST


On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
>> So looking at this trace I think its the other->sk_socket that gets
>> freed and then we call sk_wake_async() on it.
>>
>> We could I think grab the socket reference there with unix_state_lock(),
>> since that is held by unix_release_sock() before the final iput() is called.
>>
>> So something like below might work (compile tested only):
>
> That just adds the performance regression back in. It should be possible
> to protect the other socket dereference using RCU. I haven't had time to
> look at this yet today, but will try to find some time this evening to come
> up with a suggested patch.
>
> -ben
>
>> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
>> index aaa0b58..2b014f1 100644
>> --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
>> +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
>> @@ -196,6 +196,19 @@ static inline int unix_recvq_full(struct sock const
>> *sk)
>> return skb_queue_len(&sk->sk_receive_queue) > sk->sk_max_ack_backlog;
>> }
>>
>> +struct socket *unix_peer_get_socket(struct sock *s)
>> +{
>> + struct socket *peer;
>> +
>> + unix_state_lock(s);
>> + peer = s->sk_socket;
>> + if (peer)
>> + __iget(SOCK_INODE(s->sk_socket));
>> + unix_state_unlock(s);
>> +
>> + return peer;
>> +}
>> +
>> struct sock *unix_peer_get(struct sock *s)
>> {
>> struct sock *peer;
>> @@ -1639,6 +1652,7 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct socket
>> *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
>> {
>> struct sock *sk = sock->sk;
>> struct sock *other = NULL;
>> + struct socket *other_socket = NULL;
>> int err, size;
>> struct sk_buff *skb;
>> int sent = 0;
>> @@ -1662,7 +1676,10 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct socket
>> *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
>> } else {
>> err = -ENOTCONN;
>> other = unix_peer(sk);
>> - if (!other)
>> + if (other)
>> + other_socket = unix_peer_get_socket(other);
>> +
>> + if (!other_socket)
>> goto out_err;
>> }
>>
>> @@ -1721,6 +1738,9 @@ static int unix_stream_sendmsg(struct socket
>> *sock, struct msghdr *msg,
>> sent += size;
>> }
>>
>> + if (other_socket)
>> + iput(SOCK_INODE(other_socket));
>> +
>> scm_destroy(&scm);
>>
>> return sent;
>> @@ -1733,6 +1753,8 @@ pipe_err:
>> send_sig(SIGPIPE, current, 0);
>> err = -EPIPE;
>> out_err:
>> + if (other_socket)
>> + iput(SOCK_INODE(other_socket));
>> scm_destroy(&scm);
>> return sent ? : err;
>> }
>
> --
> "Thought is the essence of where you are now."


This might be a data race in sk_wake_async() if inlined by compiler
(see https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/24/680 for another example)

KASAN adds register pressure and compiler can then do 'stupid' things :(

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 7f89e4ba18d1..2af6222ccc67 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ static inline unsigned long sock_wspace(struct sock *sk)
static inline void sk_wake_async(struct sock *sk, int how, int band)
{
if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_FASYNC))
- sock_wake_async(sk->sk_socket, how, band);
+ sock_wake_async(READ_ONCE(sk->sk_socket), how, band);
}

/* Since sk_{r,w}mem_alloc sums skb->truesize, even a small frame might
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