linux-kernel - Re: Is xt_owner's owner_mt() racy with sock_orphan()? [worse with new TYPESAFE_BY

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Message-ID: <CAG48ez2G4q-50242WRE01iaKfAhd0D+XT9Ry0uS767ceHEzHXA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2023 17:28:44 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        coreteam@...filter.org, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is xt_owner's owner_mt() racy with sock_orphan()? [worse with new
 TYPESAFE_BY_RCU file lifetime?]

On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 10:40 PM Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 06:08:29PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 5:40 PM Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I think this code is racy, but testing that seems like a pain...
> > >
> > > owner_mt() in xt_owner runs in context of a NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT or
> > > NF_INET_POST_ROUTING hook. It first checks that sk->sk_socket is
> > > non-NULL, then checks that sk->sk_socket->file is non-NULL, then
> > > accesses the ->f_cred of that file.
> > >
> > > I don't see anything that protects this against a concurrent
> > > sock_orphan(), which NULLs out the sk->sk_socket pointer, if we're in
> >
> > Ah, and all the other users of ->sk_socket in net/netfilter/ do it
> > under the sk_callback_lock... so I guess the fix would be to add the
> > same in owner_mt?
>
> Sounds reasonable, although I wonder how likely a socket is to
> orphan while netfilter is processing a packet it just sent.
>
> How about the attached patch? Not sure what hash to put into a Fixes:
> tag given this is a day 1 bug and ipt_owner/ip6t_owner predate git.

Looks mostly reasonable to me; though I guess it's a bit weird to have
two separate bailout paths for checking whether sk->sk_socket is NULL,
where the first check can race, and the second check uses different
logic for determining the return value; I don't know whether that
actually matters semantically. But I'm not sure how to make it look
nicer either.
I guess you could add a READ_ONCE() around the first read to signal
that that's a potentially racy read, but I don't feel strongly about
that.