Message-ID: <2025072813-CVE-2025-38475-deb5@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:22:18 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38475: smc: Fix various oops due to inet_sock type confusion.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smc: Fix various oops due to inet_sock type confusion.

syzbot reported weird splats [0][1] in cipso_v4_sock_setattr() while
freeing inet_sk(sk)->inet_opt.

The address was freed multiple times even though it was read-only memory.

cipso_v4_sock_setattr() did nothing wrong, and the root cause was type
confusion.

The cited commit made it possible to create smc_sock as an INET socket.

The issue is that struct smc_sock does not have struct inet_sock as the
first member but hijacks AF_INET and AF_INET6 sk_family, which confuses
various places.

In this case, inet_sock.inet_opt was actually smc_sock.clcsk_data_ready(),
which is an address of a function in the text segment.

  $ pahole -C inet_sock vmlinux
  struct inet_sock {
  ...
          struct ip_options_rcu *    inet_opt;             /*   784     8 */

  $ pahole -C smc_sock vmlinux
  struct smc_sock {
  ...
          void                       (*clcsk_data_ready)(struct sock *); /*   784     8 */

The same issue for another field was reported before. [2][3]

At that time, an ugly hack was suggested [4], but it makes both INET
and SMC code error-prone and hard to change.

Also, yet another variant was fixed by a hacky commit 98d4435efcbf3
("net/smc: prevent NULL pointer dereference in txopt_get").

Instead of papering over the root cause by such hacks, we should not
allow non-INET socket to reuse the INET infra.

Let's add inet_sock as the first member of smc_sock.

[0]:
kvfree_call_rcu(): Double-freed call. rcu_head 000000006921da73
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6718 at mm/slab_common.c:1956 kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6718 Comm: syz.0.17 Tainted: G        W           6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-g7482bb149b9f #0 PREEMPT
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955
lr : kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955
sp : ffff8000a03a7730
x29: ffff8000a03a7730 x28: 00000000fffffff5 x27: 1fffe000184823d3
x26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff0000c2411e9e x24: ffff0000dd88da00
x23: ffff8000891ac9a0 x22: 00000000ffffffea x21: ffff8000891ac9a0
x20: ffff8000891ac9a0 x19: ffff80008afc2480 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80008ae642c8 x15: ffff700011ede14c
x14: 1ffff00011ede14c x13: 0000000000000004 x12: ffffffffffffffff
x11: ffff700011ede14c x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 5fa3c1ffaf0ff000
x8 : 5fa3c1ffaf0ff000 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff8000a03a7078 x4 : ffff80008f766c20 x3 : ffff80008054d360
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000201 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955 (P)
 cipso_v4_sock_setattr+0x2f0/0x3f4 net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c:1914
 netlbl_sock_setattr+0x240/0x334 net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c:1000
 smack_netlbl_add+0xa8/0x158 security/smack/smack_lsm.c:2581
 smack_inode_setsecurity+0x378/0x430 security/smack/smack_lsm.c:2912
 security_inode_setsecurity+0x118/0x3c0 security/security.c:2706
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x174/0x5c4 fs/xattr.c:251
 __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x1ec/0x218 fs/xattr.c:295
 vfs_setxattr+0x158/0x2ac fs/xattr.c:321
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:636 [inline]
 file_setxattr+0x1b8/0x294 fs/xattr.c:646
 path_setxattrat+0x2ac/0x320 fs/xattr.c:711
 __do_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:761 [inline]
 __se_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:758 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_fsetxattr+0xc0/0xdc fs/xattr.c:758
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x58/0x180 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:879
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:898
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600

[1]:
Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff8000891ac9a8
KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x0000000448d64d40-0x0000000448d64d47]
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x000000009600004e
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x0e: level 2 permission fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004e, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 1, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000207144000
[ffff8000891ac9a8] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=100000020f950003, pud=100000020f951003, pmd=0040000201000781
Internal error: Oops: 000000009600004e [#1]  SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6946 Comm: syz.0.69 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-g7482bb149b9f #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
pstate: 604000c5 (nZCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : kvfree_call_rcu+0x31c/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1971
lr : add_ptr_to_bulk_krc_lock mm/slab_common.c:1838 [inline]
lr : kvfree_call_rcu+0xfc/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1963
sp : ffff8000a28a7730
x29: ffff8000a28a7730 x28: 00000000fffffff5 x27: 1fffe00018b09bb3
x26: 0000000000000001 x25: ffff80008f66e000 x24: ffff00019beaf498
x23: ffff00019beaf4c0 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff8000891ac9a0
x20: ffff8000891ac9a0 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: ffff800093363000 x16: ffff80008052c6e4 x15: ffff700014514ecc
x14: 1ffff00014514ecc x13: 0000000000000004 x12: ffffffffffffffff
x11: ffff700014514ecc x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : 0000000000000001
x8 : ffff00019beaf7b4 x7 : ffff800080a94154 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : ffff8000935efa60 x4 : 0000000000000008 x3 : ffff80008052c7fc
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffff8000891ac9a0 x0 : 0000000000000001
Call trace:
 kvfree_call_rcu+0x31c/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1967 (P)
 cipso_v4_sock_setattr+0x2f0/0x3f4 net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c:1914
 netlbl_sock_setattr+0x240/0x334 net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c:1000
 smack_netlbl_add+0xa8/0x158 security/smack/smack_lsm.c:2581
 smack_inode_setsecurity+0x378/0x430 security/smack/smack_lsm.c:2912
 security_inode_setsecurity+0x118/0x3c0 security/security.c:2706
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x174/0x5c4 fs/xattr.c:251
 __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x1ec/0x218 fs/xattr.c:295
 vfs_setxattr+0x158/0x2ac fs/xattr.c:321
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:636 [inline]
 file_setxattr+0x1b8/0x294 fs/xattr.c:646
 path_setxattrat+0x2ac/0x320 fs/xattr.c:711
 __do_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:761 [inline]
 __se_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:758 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_fsetxattr+0xc0/0xdc fs/xattr.c:758
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151
 el0_svc+0x58/0x180 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:879
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:898
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600
Code: aa1f03e2 52800023 97ee1e8d b4000195 (f90006b4)

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38475 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 and fixed in 6.12.40 with commit 5b02e397929e5b13b969ef1f8e43c7951e2864f5
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 and fixed in 6.15.8 with commit 67a167a6b8b45607bc34aa541d1c75097d18d460
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78 and fixed in 6.16 with commit 60ada4fe644edaa6c2da97364184b0425e8aeaf5

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38475
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/smc/af_smc.c
	net/smc/smc.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b02e397929e5b13b969ef1f8e43c7951e2864f5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67a167a6b8b45607bc34aa541d1c75097d18d460
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60ada4fe644edaa6c2da97364184b0425e8aeaf5

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