netdev - Re: Network hang after c3f1010b30f7fc611139cfb702a8685741aa6827 with CIPSO & Smack

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:37:49 -0700
From:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To:	David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc:	Linux-Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Network hang after c3f1010b30f7fc611139cfb702a8685741aa6827 with
 CIPSO & Smack

On 7/6/2016 11:56 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 7/6/2016 11:43 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 7/6/16 11:01 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>>> I find the test occasionally passes without hanging, but will
>>> hang the system if repeated. I am running on Ubuntu and Fedora,
>>> both with systemd, which may be a contributing factor. I run
>>> under qemu, and am based on Linus' tree.
>>>
>> With this:
>>
>> for n in $(seq 1 10); do
>>     bash -x ./testnetworking.sh
>>     sleep 10
>> done
>>
>> I do get the VM to loop where I can not kill the test. dmesg has this splat:
>>
>> [ 3576.504715] general protection fault: 0000 [#21] SMP
>> [ 3576.505322] Modules linked in: 8021q garp mrp stp llc
>> [ 3576.506007] CPU: 3 PID: 2938 Comm: killall Tainted: G      D 4.7.0-rc5+ #20
>> [ 3576.506881] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
>> [ 3576.508048] task: ffff8800b4e72340 ti: ffff880138a48000 task.ti: ffff880138a48000
>> [ 3576.508894] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81184dc2>]  [<ffffffff81184dc2>] next_tgid+0x53/0x99
>> [ 3576.509803] RSP: 0018:ffff880138a4bde8  EFLAGS: 00010206
>> [ 3576.510410] RAX: 4100646e4100608e RBX: 00000000000007f2 RCX: ffff8800b98c9bb0
>> [ 3576.511218] RDX: 4100646e4100608e RSI: 00000000000003e0 RDI: ffff8800b98c9b80
>> [ 3576.512024] RBP: ffff880138a4be10 R08: 0000000000000032 R09: 0000000000000000
>> [ 3576.512833] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 00000000000007e5
>> [ 3576.513647] R13: ffff8800b98c9b80 R14: ffffffff81a27900 R15: 00000000000007e4
>> [ 3576.514453] FS:  00007fc084469700(0000) GS:ffff88013fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [ 3576.515361] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> [ 3576.516009] CR2: 0000000001947000 CR3: 00000000b5449000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
>> [ 3576.516818] Stack:
>> [ 3576.517057]  00000000000007e5 0000000000000000 ffff880138a4bee0 ffff8800b982a140
>> [ 3576.517963]  ffffffff81a27900 ffff880138a4be68 ffffffff81187090 ffff8800b1d9d300
>> [ 3576.518857]  0030323032000001 ffff880138a4bee0 ffff880138a4bee0 0000000000000000
>> [ 3576.519754] Call Trace:
>> [ 3576.520044]  [<ffffffff81187090>] proc_pid_readdir+0xd4/0x18b
>> [ 3576.520697]  [<ffffffff81183d6b>] proc_root_readdir+0x35/0x3a
>> [ 3576.521352]  [<ffffffff8114951a>] iterate_dir+0xac/0x148
>> [ 3576.521966]  [<ffffffff811513ad>] ? __fget_light+0x27/0x48
>> [ 3576.522587]  [<ffffffff81149892>] SyS_getdents+0x8a/0xdc
>> [ 3576.523189]  [<ffffffff8114967d>] ? fillonedir+0xc7/0xc7
>> [ 3576.523794]  [<ffffffff814a2172>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
>> [ 3576.524524]  [<ffffffff814a2172>] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
>> [ 3576.525276] Code: d6 aa ed ff 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 74 40 4c 89 f6 48 89 c7 e8 8b a2 ed ff 31 f6 4c 89 ef 89 c3 e8 15 a2 ed ff 48 85 c0 48 89 c2 74 17 <48> 8b 80 78 05 00 00 48 8b 80 c8 00 00 00 48 39 82 f0 03 00 00
>> [ 3576.528359] RIP  [<ffffffff81184dc2>] next_tgid+0x53/0x99
>> [ 3576.528991]  RSP <ffff880138a4bde8>
>> [ 3576.529452] ---[ end trace a6f0cb9bfb70d9e6 ]---
>>
>> And then I can no longer run commands:
>>
>> root@...ny-jessie3:~# top -d1
>> Segmentation fault
>>
> My thought is that there's a locking issue on a resource
> somewhere in the TCP stack, and that a freed but still in
> use buffer is getting into the filesystem code somehow.

Digging into this further I have determined that the
circumstances leading to this issue are somewhat complex.
The good news is that there seems to be a very limited
circumstances under which the problem manifests.

I have a socket, and change the Smack attributes on the
socket (security_inode_setsecurity) before connecting to
a server. The connect succeeds. The client sends a packet,
also successfully. The response is received. Now here's
where it gets interesting. I instrumented the code to print
the Smack attributes on the socket both before and after
the Smack access check. Before the check is made the Smack
data reflects the initial values from when the socket was
created. After the check, they reflect the explicit change
made earlier. The check reports failure based on the initial
values. As a result, an attempt to notify the caller that
the action failed is made (netlbl_skbuff_err) which results
in a call to icmp_send that frees already freed memory.

If the Smack attributes in the sk_security blob are not
explicitly set the problem does not occur. I have the same
result if I change the Smack attributes within the socket
security blob as I do if I replace the security blob.