netdev - Re: Use after free in __dst_destroy_metrics

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpV--V9ROSd61CWVbcpCHonMUubLeyEKVSvEUTTW3gh5hA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:12:09 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
Cc:     Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Use after free in __dst_destroy_metrics_generic

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 18:52:02 -0600
> Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>
>> We are seeing a possible use after free in ip6_dst_destroy.
>>
>> It appears as if memory of the __DST_METRICS_PTR(old) was freed in some
>> path and allocated
>> to ion driver. ion driver has also freed it. Finally the memory is freed
>> by the
>> fib gc and crashes since it is already deallocated.
>>
>> Target is running an ARM64 Android based 4.9 kernel.
>> Issue was seen once on a regression rack (sorry, no reproducer).
>> Any pointers to debug this is highly appreciated.
>>
>> [ 3489.470581] [<ffffff83c0a289c0>] object_err+0x4c/0x5c
>> [ 3489.470586] [<ffffff83c0a2b284>] free_debug_processing+0x2e0/0x398
>> [ 3489.470589] [<ffffff83c0a2b63c>] __slab_free+0x300/0x3e0
>> [ 3489.470593] [<ffffff83c0a2bfc8>] kfree+0x28c/0x290
>> [ 3489.470601] [<ffffff83c16b9580>]
>> __dst_destroy_metrics_generic+0x6c/0x78
>> [ 3489.470609] [<ffffff83c17d3408>] ip6_dst_destroy+0xb0/0xb4
>
> Should be fixed by:
>
> commit ad65a2f05695aced349e308193c6e2a6b1d87112
> Author: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> Date:   Sat Jun 17 10:42:35 2017 -0700
>
>     ipv6: call dst_hold_safe() properly


Obviously it should not. One is dst metric, the other is dst.