linux-kernel - netlink: GPF in netlink

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2017 11:54:51 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: netlink: GPF in netlink_unicast

Hello,

I've got the following crash while running syzkaller fuzzer on
net-next/8d70eeb84ab277377c017af6a21d0a337025dede:

kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
Dumping ftrace buffer:
   (ftrace buffer empty)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 883 Comm: kauditd Not tainted 4.10.0+ #6
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine,
BIOS Google 01/01/2011
task: ffff8801d79f0240 task.stack: ffff8801d7a20000
RIP: 0010:sock_sndtimeo include/net/sock.h:2162 [inline]
RIP: 0010:netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1249
RSP: 0018:ffff8801d7a27c38 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000056 RBX: ffff8801d7a27cd0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000002b0
RBP: ffff8801d7a27cf8 R08: ffffed00385cf286 R09: ffffed00385cf286
R10: 0000000000000006 R11: ffffed00385cf285 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8801c2fc3c80 R15: 00000000014000c0
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8801dbe00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020cfd000 CR3: 00000001c758f000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
Call Trace:
 kauditd_send_unicast_skb+0x3c/0x70 kernel/audit.c:482
 kauditd_thread+0x174/0xb00 kernel/audit.c:599
 kthread+0x326/0x3f0 kernel/kthread.c:229
 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430
Code: 44 89 fe e8 56 15 ff ff 8b 8d 70 ff ff ff 49 89 c6 31 c0 85 c9
75 27 e8 b2 b2 f4 fd 49 8d bc 24 b0 02 00 00 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42>
80 3c 28 00 0f 85 37 06 00 00 49 8b 84 24 b0 02 00 00 4c 8d
RIP: sock_sndtimeo include/net/sock.h:2162 [inline] RSP: ffff8801d7a27c38
RIP: netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1249 RSP:
ffff8801d7a27c38
---[ end trace ad1bba9d457430b6 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception


This is not reproducible and seems to be caused by an elusive race.
However, looking at the code I don't see any proper protection of
audit_sock (other than the if (!audit_pid) which is obviously not
enough to protect against races).