linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: fix general protection fault in tipc_conn_delete

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:22:56 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     B K Karthik <bkkarthik@...u.pes.edu>
Cc:     Jon Maloy <jmaloy@...hat.com>, Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: fix general protection fault in
 tipc_conn_delete_sub

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 06:40:57PM +0530, B K Karthik wrote:
> fix a general protection fault in tipc_conn_delete_sub
> by checking for the existance of con->server.
> prevent a null-ptr-deref by returning -EINVAL when
> con->server is NULL
> 
> general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000014: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000a0-0x00000000000000a7]
> CPU: 1 PID: 113 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 5.6.0-syzkaller #0
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> Workqueue: tipc_send tipc_conn_send_work
> RIP: 0010:tipc_conn_delete_sub+0x54/0x440 net/tipc/topsrv.c:231
> Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 f0 03 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8b 6b 18 48 8d bd a0 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 c0 03 00 00 48 c7 c0 34 0b 8a 8a 4c 8b a5 a0 00
> RSP: 0018:ffffc900012d7b58 EFLAGS: 00010206
> RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880a8269c00 RCX: ffffffff8789ca01
> RDX: 0000000000000014 RSI: ffffffff8789a059 RDI: 00000000000000a0
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff8880a8d88380 R09: fffffbfff18577a8
> R10: fffffbfff18577a7 R11: ffffffff8c2bbd3f R12: dffffc0000000000
> R13: ffff888093d35a18 R14: ffff8880a8269c00 R15: ffff888093d35a00
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 000000000076c000 CR3: 000000009441d000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Call Trace:
>  tipc_conn_send_to_sock+0x380/0x560 net/tipc/topsrv.c:266
>  tipc_conn_send_work+0x6f/0x90 net/tipc/topsrv.c:304
>  process_one_work+0x965/0x16a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2266
>  worker_thread+0x96/0xe20 kernel/workqueue.c:2412
>  kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:268
>  ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
> Modules linked in:
> ---[ end trace 2c161a84be832606 ]---
> RIP: 0010:tipc_conn_delete_sub+0x54/0x440 net/tipc/topsrv.c:231
> Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 f0 03 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8b 6b 18 48 8d bd a0 00 00 00 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 c0 03 00 00 48 c7 c0 34 0b 8a 8a 4c 8b a5 a0 00
> RSP: 0018:ffffc900012d7b58 EFLAGS: 00010206
> RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880a8269c00 RCX: ffffffff8789ca01
> RDX: 0000000000000014 RSI: ffffffff8789a059 RDI: 00000000000000a0
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff8880a8d88380 R09: fffffbfff18577a8
> R10: fffffbfff18577a7 R11: ffffffff8c2bbd3f R12: dffffc0000000000
> R13: ffff888093d35a18 R14: ffff8880a8269c00 R15: ffff888093d35a00
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880ae700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000020800000 CR3: 0000000091b8e000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+55a38037455d0351efd3@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: B K Karthik <bkkarthik@...u.pes.edu>
> ---
>  net/tipc/topsrv.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/tipc/topsrv.c b/net/tipc/topsrv.c
> index 1489cfb941d8..6c8d0c6bb112 100644
> --- a/net/tipc/topsrv.c
> +++ b/net/tipc/topsrv.c
> @@ -255,6 +255,9 @@ static void tipc_conn_send_to_sock(struct tipc_conn *con)
>  	int count = 0;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!con->server)
> +		return -EINVAL;

What is wrong with looking at the srv local variable instead?

And how is server getting set to NULL and this function still being
called?

thanks,

greg k-h