netdev - Re: net: llc: NULL ptr deref in llc_ui

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Message-ID: <5393299B.7070308@oracle.com>
Date:	Sat, 07 Jun 2014 11:02:51 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: net: llc: NULL ptr deref in llc_ui_sendmsg

On 06/06/2014 01:53 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 11:42 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 11:08:33AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>  > Hi all,
>>  > 
>>  > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
>>  > kernel I've stumbled on the following spew:
>>  > 
>>  > [  269.531162] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000021e
>>  > [  269.531217] IP: llc_ui_sendmsg (net/llc/af_llc.c:912)
>>
>>  905         /* must bind connection to sap if user hasn't done it. */
>>  906         if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED)) {
>>  907                 /* bind to sap with null dev, exclusive. */
>>  908                 rc = llc_ui_autobind(sock, addr);
>>  909                 if (rc)
>>  910                         goto release;
>>  911         }
>>  912         hdrlen = llc->dev->hard_header_len + llc_ui_header_len(sk, addr);
>>
>> looks like llc->dev was null, (understandable, given Trinity doesn't really know
>> how to set up llc beyond random socket()/setsockopt() calls).
>>
>> llc_ui_autobind returns -ENODEV in that case, so it looks like the SOCK_ZAPPED test
>> was false. Something like the patch below maybe ? It feels ugly to be duplicating that
>> test there, but if this is agreed upon I'll resubmit this properly.
> 
> I figured it's something more complicated than that since trinity stumbled on it only
> now and I don't see any code changes in that area. I'll test it with the patch.

Same thing can happen in recvmsg as well, I wonder if there's a more generic fix rather
than check for llc->dev everywhere.


Thanks,
Sasha

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