netdev - [PATCH net v2] net: sctp: test if association is dead in sctp_wake_up

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Date:	Wed,  9 Apr 2014 01:32:37 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] net: sctp: test if association is dead in sctp_wake_up_waiters

In function sctp_wake_up_waiters(), we need to involve a test
if the association is declared dead. If so, we don't have any
reference to a possible sibling association anymore and need
to invoke sctp_write_space() instead and normally walk the
socket's associations and notify them of new wmem space. The
reason for special casing is that, otherwise, we could run
into the following issue:

sctp_association_free()
`-> list_del(&asoc->asocs)         <-- poisons list pointer
    asoc->base.dead = true
    sctp_outq_free(&asoc->outqueue)
    `-> __sctp_outq_teardown()
     `-> sctp_chunk_free()
      `-> consume_skb()
       `-> sctp_wfree()
        `-> sctp_wake_up_waiters() <-- dereferences poisoned pointers
                                       if asoc->ep->sndbuf_policy=0

Therefore, only walk the list in an 'optimized' way if we find
that the current association is still active. We could also use
list_del_init() in addition when we call sctp_association_free(),
but as Vlad suggests, we want to trap such bugs and thus leave
it poisoned as is. Stress-testing seems fine now.

Fixes: cd253f9f357d ("net: sctp: wake up all assocs if sndbuf policy is per socket")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
---
 v1->v2:
  - leave list_del()

 net/sctp/socket.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 5f83a6a..270d5bd 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -6604,6 +6604,12 @@ static void sctp_wake_up_waiters(struct sock *sk,
 	if (asoc->ep->sndbuf_policy)
 		return __sctp_write_space(asoc);
 
+	/* If association goes down and is just flushing its
+	 * outq, then just normally notify others.
+	 */
+	if (asoc->base.dead)
+		return sctp_write_space(sk);
+
 	/* Accounting for the sndbuf space is per socket, so we
 	 * need to wake up others, try to be fair and in case of
 	 * other associations, let them have a go first instead
-- 
1.7.11.7

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