[PATCH RFC net v2 1/3] vsock: Fix transport_{g2h,h2g} TOCTOU

From: Michal Luczaj
Date: Fri Jun 20 2025 - 15:53:54 EST


vsock_find_cid() and vsock_dev_do_ioctl() may race with module unload.
transport_{g2h,h2g} may become NULL after the NULL check.

Introduce vsock_transport_local_cid() to protect from a potential
null-ptr-deref.

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
RIP: 0010:vsock_find_cid+0x47/0x90
Call Trace:
__vsock_bind+0x4b2/0x720
vsock_bind+0x90/0xe0
__sys_bind+0x14d/0x1e0
__x64_sys_bind+0x6e/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x92/0x1c0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
RIP: 0010:vsock_dev_do_ioctl.isra.0+0x58/0xf0
Call Trace:
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x12d/0x190
do_syscall_64+0x92/0x1c0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Fixes: c0cfa2d8a788 ("vsock: add multi-transports support")
Suggested-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
---
net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index 2e7a3034e965db30b6ee295370d866e6d8b1c341..63a920af5bfe6960306a3e5eeae0cbf30648985e 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -531,9 +531,21 @@ int vsock_assign_transport(struct vsock_sock *vsk, struct vsock_sock *psk)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vsock_assign_transport);

+static u32 vsock_transport_local_cid(const struct vsock_transport **transport)
+{
+ u32 cid = VMADDR_CID_ANY;
+
+ mutex_lock(&vsock_register_mutex);
+ if (*transport)
+ cid = (*transport)->get_local_cid();
+ mutex_unlock(&vsock_register_mutex);
+
+ return cid;
+}
+
bool vsock_find_cid(unsigned int cid)
{
- if (transport_g2h && cid == transport_g2h->get_local_cid())
+ if (cid == vsock_transport_local_cid(&transport_g2h))
return true;

if (transport_h2g && cid == VMADDR_CID_HOST)
@@ -2536,18 +2548,17 @@ static long vsock_dev_do_ioctl(struct file *filp,
unsigned int cmd, void __user *ptr)
{
u32 __user *p = ptr;
- u32 cid = VMADDR_CID_ANY;
int retval = 0;
+ u32 cid;

switch (cmd) {
case IOCTL_VM_SOCKETS_GET_LOCAL_CID:
/* To be compatible with the VMCI behavior, we prioritize the
* guest CID instead of well-know host CID (VMADDR_CID_HOST).
*/
- if (transport_g2h)
- cid = transport_g2h->get_local_cid();
- else if (transport_h2g)
- cid = transport_h2g->get_local_cid();
+ cid = vsock_transport_local_cid(&transport_g2h);
+ if (cid == VMADDR_CID_ANY)
+ cid = vsock_transport_local_cid(&transport_h2g);

if (put_user(cid, p) != 0)
retval = -EFAULT;

--
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