linux-kernel - Re: net: use-after-free in neigh_timer_handler/sock

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:36:08 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Subject: Re: net: use-after-free in neigh_timer_handler/sock_wfree

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> But I doubt skb_orphan() is the solution here, shouldn't we just
>>> update sk->sk_wmem_alloc with skb->truesize changes?
>>
>> Is it worth it ? Apart from syszkaller I mean...
>>
>> We started with something that had a real impact on real workloads.
>>
>> 158f323b9868b59967ad96957c4ca388161be321 net: adjust skb->truesize in
>> pskb_expand_head()
>>
>> Note that auditing the stack took me a while.
>
> I don't know how sk refcnt could work correctly without making
> sk_wmem_alloc correctly. We certainly could just call skb_orphan()
> is we don't need skb->sk any more, probably like the frag case,
> but for this case, the neigh one, the skb's sitting in neigh->arp_queue
> are not going to be freed unless in failed case, therefore skb->sk
> should not be orphaned so early.


There is absolutely no issue in arp/nd case.
Many skbs can sit there and it is fine.
Same with skbs sitting a long time in a qdisc.

Of course we try to not call skb_orphan() unless really needed.

tcp_gso_segment() tries very hard to propagate skb ownership to the segments,
but even something apparently easy like that took some patches before
being done right.

(for details : 0d08c42cf9a71530fef5ebcfe368f38f2dd0476f "tcp: gso: fix
truesize tracking")

conntrack reasm is mostly used in forwarding workloads, where skb->sk
is already NULL.

Are you thinking of a real workload where skb->sk _needs_ to be kept
in ipv6 reasm ?