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Message-ID: <ZDe02xqrX/pP0vEN@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2023 08:52:59 +0100
From:   Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@...il.com>
To:     Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     Ding Hui <dinghui@...gfor.com.cn>, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        ecree.xilinx@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pengdonglin@...gfor.com.cn,
        huangcun@...gfor.com.cn
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net] sfc: Fix use-after-free due to selftest_work

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 03:34:51PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/11/2023 5:50 PM, Ding Hui wrote:
> > There is a use-after-free scenario that is:
> > 
> > When netif_running() is false, user set mac address or vlan tag to VF,
> > the xxx_set_vf_mac() or xxx_set_vf_vlan() will invoke efx_net_stop()
> > and efx_net_open(), since netif_running() is false, the port will not
> > start and keep port_enabled false, but selftest_worker is scheduled
> > in efx_net_open().
> > 
> > If we remove the device before selftest_worker run, the efx is freed,
> > then we will get a UAF in run_timer_softirq() like this:
> > 
> > [ 1178.907941] ==================================================================
> > [ 1178.907948] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in run_timer_softirq+0xdea/0xe90
> > [ 1178.907950] Write of size 8 at addr ff11001f449cdc80 by task swapper/47/0
> > [ 1178.907950]
> > [ 1178.907953] CPU: 47 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/47 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           O     --------- -t - 4.18.0 #1
> > [ 1178.907954] Hardware name: SANGFOR X620G40/WI2HG-208T1061A, BIOS SPYH051032-U01 04/01/2022
> > [ 1178.907955] Call Trace:
> > [ 1178.907956]  <IRQ>
> > [ 1178.907960]  dump_stack+0x71/0xab
> > [ 1178.907963]  print_address_description+0x6b/0x290
> > [ 1178.907965]  ? run_timer_softirq+0xdea/0xe90
> > [ 1178.907967]  kasan_report+0x14a/0x2b0
> > [ 1178.907968]  run_timer_softirq+0xdea/0xe90
> > [ 1178.907971]  ? init_timer_key+0x170/0x170
> > [ 1178.907973]  ? hrtimer_cancel+0x20/0x20
> > [ 1178.907976]  ? sched_clock+0x5/0x10
> > [ 1178.907978]  ? sched_clock_cpu+0x18/0x170
> > [ 1178.907981]  __do_softirq+0x1c8/0x5fa
> > [ 1178.907985]  irq_exit+0x213/0x240
> > [ 1178.907987]  smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd0/0x330
> > [ 1178.907989]  apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20
> > [ 1178.907990]  </IRQ>
> > [ 1178.907991] RIP: 0010:mwait_idle+0xae/0x370
> > 
> > I am thinking about several ways to fix the issue:
> > 
> > [1] In this RFC, I cancel the selftest_worker unconditionally in
> > efx_pci_remove().
> > 
> > [2] Add a test condition, only invoke efx_selftest_async_start() when
> > efx->port_enabled is true in efx_net_open().
> > 
> > [3] Move invoking efx_selftest_async_start() from efx_net_open() to
> > efx_start_all() or efx_start_port(), that matching cancel action in
> > efx_stop_port().
> > 
> > [4] However, I also notice that in efx_ef10_set_mac_address(), the
> > efx_net_open() depends on original port_enabled, but others are not,
> > if we change all efx_net_open() depends on old state like
> > efx_ef10_set_mac_address() does, the UAF can also be fixed in theory.
> > 
> > But I'm not sure which is better, is there any suggestions? Thanks.
> > 
> 
> I think this fix makes the most sense to me.

For me this is too late. It leaves a gap where the selftest timer is still running
but the NIC has already stopped sending events. So we could still get a
failure "channel %d timed out waiting for event queue" from the selftest.

Martin

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <dinghui@...gfor.com.cn>
> > ---
> 
> net patches need a Fixes tag indicating what commit this fixes. This
> being RFC is likely why that was left off?
> 
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
> > index 884d8d168862..dd0b2363eed1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
> > @@ -876,6 +876,8 @@ static void efx_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
> >  	efx->state = STATE_UNINIT;
> >  	rtnl_unlock();
> >  
> > +	efx_selftest_async_cancel(efx);
> > +
> >  	if (efx->type->sriov_fini)
> >  		efx->type->sriov_fini(efx);
> >  

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