linux-kernel - Re: [Patch net, v2] net: xfrm: skip policies marked as dead while reinserting policies

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Message-ID: <20230815091324.GL22185@unreal>
Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:13:24 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Dong Chenchen <dongchenchen2@...wei.com>
Cc:     fw@...len.de, steffen.klassert@...unet.com,
        herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, davem@...emloft.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        timo.teras@....fi, yuehaibing@...wei.com, weiyongjun1@...wei.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net, v2] net: xfrm: skip policies marked as dead while
 reinserting policies

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 04:47:58PM +0800, Dong Chenchen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 10:00:13PM +0800, Dong Chenchen wrote:
> >> BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in xfrm_policy_inexact_list_reinsert+0xb6/0x430
> >> Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881051f3bf8 by task ip/668
> >> 
> >> CPU: 2 PID: 668 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.5.0-rc5-00182-g25aa0bebba72-dirty #64
> >> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13 04/01/2014
> >> Call Trace:
> >>  <TASK>
> >>  dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0
> >>  print_report+0xd0/0x620
> >>  kasan_report+0xb6/0xf0
> >>  xfrm_policy_inexact_list_reinsert+0xb6/0x430
> >>  xfrm_policy_inexact_insert_node.constprop.0+0x537/0x800
> >>  xfrm_policy_inexact_alloc_chain+0x23f/0x320
> >>  xfrm_policy_inexact_insert+0x6b/0x590
> >>  xfrm_policy_insert+0x3b1/0x480
> >>  xfrm_add_policy+0x23c/0x3c0
> >>  xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x2d0/0x510
> >>  netlink_rcv_skb+0x10d/0x2d0
> >>  xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x49/0x60
> >>  netlink_unicast+0x3fe/0x540
> >>  netlink_sendmsg+0x528/0x970
> >>  sock_sendmsg+0x14a/0x160
> >>  ____sys_sendmsg+0x4fc/0x580
> >>  ___sys_sendmsg+0xef/0x160
> >>  __sys_sendmsg+0xf7/0x1b0
> >>  do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
> >>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x73/0xdd
> >> 
> >> The root cause is:
> >> 
> >> cpu 0			cpu1
> >> xfrm_dump_policy
> >> xfrm_policy_walk
> >> list_move_tail
> >> 			xfrm_add_policy
> >> 			... ...
> >> 			xfrm_policy_inexact_list_reinsert
> >> 			list_for_each_entry_reverse
> >> 				if (!policy->bydst_reinsert)
> >> 				//read non-existent policy
> >> xfrm_dump_policy_done
> >> xfrm_policy_walk_done
> >> list_del(&walk->walk.all);
> >> 
> >> If dump_one_policy() returns err (triggered by netlink socket),
> >> xfrm_policy_walk() will move walk initialized by socket to list
> >> net->xfrm.policy_all. so this socket becomes visible in the global
> >> policy list. The head *walk can be traversed when users add policies
> >> with different prefixlen and trigger xfrm_policy node merge.
> >> 
> >> The issue can also be triggered by policy list traversal while rehashing
> >> and flushing policies.
> >> 
> >> It can be fixed by skip such "policies" with walk.dead set to 1.
> >> 
> >> Fixes: 9cf545ebd591 ("xfrm: policy: store inexact policies in a tree ordered by destination address")
> >> Fixes: 12a169e7d8f4 ("ipsec: Put dumpers on the dump list")
> >> Signed-off-by: Dong Chenchen <dongchenchen2@...wei.com>
> >> ---
> >> v2: fix similiar similar while rehashing and flushing policies
> >> ---
> >>  net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

<...>

> >> @@ -1253,11 +1256,14 @@ static void xfrm_hash_rebuild(struct work_struct *work)
> >>  	 * we start with destructive action.
> >>  	 */
> >>  	list_for_each_entry(policy, &net->xfrm.policy_all, walk.all) {
> >> +		if (policy->walk.dead)
> >> +			continue;
> >> +
> >>  		struct xfrm_pol_inexact_bin *bin;
> >>  		u8 dbits, sbits;
> >
> >Same comment as above.
> >
> >>  
> >>  		dir = xfrm_policy_id2dir(policy->index);
> >> -		if (policy->walk.dead || dir >= XFRM_POLICY_MAX)
> >> +		if (dir >= XFRM_POLICY_MAX)
> >
> >This change is unnecessary, previous code was perfectly fine.
> >
> The walker object initialized by xfrm_policy_walk_init() doesnt have policy. 
> list_for_each_entry() will use the walker offset to calculate policy address.
> It's nonexistent and different from invalid dead policy. It will read memory 
> that doesnt belong to walker if dereference policy->index.
> I think we should protect the memory.

But all operations here are an outcome of "list_for_each_entry(policy,
&net->xfrm.policy_all, walk.all)" which stores in policy iterator
the pointer to struct xfrm_policy.

How at the same time access to policy->walk.dead is valid while
policy->index is not?

Thanks