linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Fix two possible concurrency use-after-free bugs

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Message-ID: <cb47b5e1-bac9-b44b-8b47-9e654c7cffc1@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:24:47 +0800
From:   Yanjun Zhu <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
To:     Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        keescook@...omium.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: nvidia: forcedeth: Fix two possible concurrency
 use-after-free bugs


On 2019/1/9 11:20, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/1/9 10:35, Yanjun Zhu wrote:
>>
>> On 2019/1/9 10:03, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2019/1/9 9:24, Yanjun Zhu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2019/1/8 20:57, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2019/1/8 20:54, Zhu Yanjun wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 在 2019/1/8 20:45, Jia-Ju Bai 写道:
>>>>>>> In drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c, the functions
>>>>>>> nv_start_xmit() and nv_start_xmit_optimized() can be concurrently
>>>>>>> executed with nv_poll_controller().
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nv_start_xmit
>>>>>>>    line 2321: prev_tx_ctx->skb = skb;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nv_start_xmit_optimized
>>>>>>>    line 2479: prev_tx_ctx->skb = skb;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nv_poll_controller
>>>>>>>    nv_do_nic_poll
>>>>>>>      line 4134: spin_lock(&np->lock);
>>>>>>>      nv_drain_rxtx
>>>>>>>        nv_drain_tx
>>>>>>>          nv_release_txskb
>>>>>>>            line 2004: dev_kfree_skb_any(tx_skb->skb);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thus, two possible concurrency use-after-free bugs may occur.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To fix these possible bugs,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this really occur? Can you reproduce this ?
>>>>>
>>>>> This bug is not found by the real execution.
>>>>> It is found by a static tool written by myself, and then I check 
>>>>> it by manual code review.
>>>>
>>>> Before "line 2004: dev_kfree_skb_any(tx_skb->skb); ",
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>>                 nv_disable_irq(dev);
>>>>                 nv_napi_disable(dev);
>>>>                 netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
>>>>                 netif_addr_lock(dev);
>>>>                 spin_lock(&np->lock);
>>>>                 /* stop engines */
>>>>                 nv_stop_rxtx(dev);   <---this stop rxtx
>>>>                 nv_txrx_reset(dev);
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> In this case, does nv_start_xmit or nv_start_xmit_optimized still 
>>>> work well?
>>>>
>>>
>>> nv_stop_rxtx() calls nv_stop_tx(dev).
>>>
>>> static void nv_stop_tx(struct net_device *dev)
>>> {
>>>     struct fe_priv *np = netdev_priv(dev);
>>>     u8 __iomem *base = get_hwbase(dev);
>>>     u32 tx_ctrl = readl(base + NvRegTransmitterControl);
>>>
>>>     if (!np->mac_in_use)
>>>         tx_ctrl &= ~NVREG_XMITCTL_START;
>>>     else
>>>         tx_ctrl |= NVREG_XMITCTL_TX_PATH_EN;
>>>     writel(tx_ctrl, base + NvRegTransmitterControl);
>>>     if (reg_delay(dev, NvRegTransmitterStatus, NVREG_XMITSTAT_BUSY, 0,
>>>               NV_TXSTOP_DELAY1, NV_TXSTOP_DELAY1MAX))
>>>         netdev_info(dev, "%s: TransmitterStatus remained busy\n",
>>>                 __func__);
>>>
>>>     udelay(NV_TXSTOP_DELAY2);
>>>     if (!np->mac_in_use)
>>>         writel(readl(base + NvRegTransmitPoll) & 
>>> NVREG_TRANSMITPOLL_MAC_ADDR_REV,
>>>                base + NvRegTransmitPoll);
>>> }
>>>
>>> nv_stop_tx() seems to only write registers to stop transmitting for 
>>> hardware.
>>> But it does not wait until nv_start_xmit() and 
>>> nv_start_xmit_optimized() finish execution.
>> There are 3 modes in forcedeth NIC.
>> In throughput mode (0), every tx & rx packet will generate an interrupt.
>> In CPU mode (1), interrupts are controlled by a timer.
>> In dynamic mode (2), the mode toggles between throughput and CPU mode 
>> based on network load.
>>
>> From the source code,
>>
>> "np->recover_error = 1;" is related with CPU mode.
>>
>> nv_start_xmit or nv_start_xmit_optimized seems related with 
>> ghroughput mode.
>>
>> In static void nv_do_nic_poll(struct timer_list *t),
>> when  if (np->recover_error), line 2004: 
>> dev_kfree_skb_any(tx_skb->skb); will run.
>>
>> When "np->recover_error=1", do you think nv_start_xmit or 
>> nv_start_xmit_optimized will be called?
>
> Sorry, I do not know about these modes...
> But I still think nv_start_xmit() or nv_start_xmit_optimized() can be 
> called here, in no matter which mode :)


:-P

If you have forcedeth NIC, you can make tests with it.:-)
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Jia-Ju Bai
>