netdev - Re: Crash due to NULL dereference in tcp_rearm

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Date:   Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:14:09 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, soheil@...gle.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: Crash due to NULL dereference in tcp_rearm_rto



On 04/13/2018 05:39 PM, Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan wrote:
> We are seeing a warning followed by a crash on an ARM64 device with
> Android 4.14 based kernel.
> 
> It looks like both sk->sk_write_queue and sk->sk_send_head are NULL.
> Since the sk->sk_write_queue is NULL and is dereferenced in tcp_rto_delta_us()
> to get the skb->skb_mstamp, there is crash observed.
> 
> Since this is 4.14.32, it already has commit ("tcp: reset sk_send_head in tcp_write_queue_purge")
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?h=v4.14.34&id=dbbf2d1e4077bab0c65ece2765d3fc69cf7d610f
> 
> 12876.013077:   <6> WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 14828 at net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2469 tcp_send_loss_probe+0x198/0x1b8
> 12876.038939:   <6> task: ffffffe73f7e5a80 task.stack: ffffff801b068000
> 12876.038941:   <2> PC is at tcp_send_loss_probe+0x198/0x1b8
> 12876.038942:   <2> LR is at tcp_send_loss_probe+0x28/0x1b8
> 12876.038944:   <2> pc : [<ffffff8dc8db16f8>] lr : [<ffffff8dc8db1588>] pstate: 60400145
> 12876.038944:   <2> sp : ffffff800802bd30
> 12876.038945:   <2> x29: ffffff800802bd50 x28: ffffff8dc9d83eb8
> 12876.038948:   <2> x27: ffffff800802be08 x26: ffffff8dc9737000
> 12876.038950:   <2> x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffffe744ea1728
> 12876.038952:   <2> x23: ffffffe73f7e5a80 x22: 0000000000000558
> 12876.038954:   <2> x21: 0000000000000000 x20: 0000000001080020
> 12876.038956:   <2> x19: ffffffe73d06e440 x18: 0000000000000020
> 12876.038958:   <2> x17: 0000000000000014 x16: 0000000000000030
> 12876.038960:   <2> x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
> 12876.038962:   <2> x13: 0000000013af314c x12: 0000002773f8a550
> 12876.038965:   <2> x11: 0000000000000538 x10: 0000000000000000
> 12876.038967:   <2> x9 : 0000000000000020 x8 : ffffffe73d06e5f0
> 12876.038969:   <2> x7 : 0000000000924278 x6 : ffffffe76fe9ed80
> 12876.038971:   <2> x5 : ffffffe76fe9ed80 x4 : 000000000f500458
> 12876.038973:   <2> x3 : ffffff800802bce0 x2 : ffffff800802bce8
> 12876.038975:   <2> x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000558
> 12876.039082:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8db16f8>] tcp_send_loss_probe+0x198/0x1b8
> 12876.039084:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8db6698>] tcp_write_timer_handler+0xf8/0x1c4
> 12876.039086:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8db68cc>] tcp_write_timer+0x5c/0x98
> 12876.039089:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8144f10>] call_timer_fn+0xc0/0x1b4
> 12876.039091:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8143f68>] run_timer_softirq+0x230/0x850
> 12876.039094:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8081b74>] __do_softirq+0x1dc/0x3a4
> 12876.039096:   <2> [<ffffff8dc80b8fec>] irq_exit+0xc8/0xd4
> 12876.039098:   <2> [<ffffff8dc812a004>] __handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xc4
> 12876.039099:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8081940>] gic_handle_irq+0x164/0x1bc
> 
> [net/ipv4/tcp_output.c]
> void tcp_send_loss_probe(struct sock *sk)
> {
>     struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
>     struct sk_buff *skb;
>     int pcount;
>     int mss = tcp_current_mss(sk);
> 
> ...
> 
>     /* Retransmit last segment. */
>     if (WARN_ON(!skb))
>         goto rearm_timer;
> 
> 12876.043967:   <6> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
> 12876.091600:   <6> Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> 12876.152597:   <2> PC is at tcp_rearm_rto+0x48/0x90
> 12876.156979:   <2> LR is at tcp_send_loss_probe+0x178/0x1b8
> 12876.162077:   <2> pc : [<ffffff8dc8da76c4>] lr : [<ffffff8dc8db16d8>] pstate: 60400145
> 12876.169657:   <2> sp : ffffff800802bd10
> 12876.173056:   <2> x29: ffffff800802bd20 x28: ffffff8dc9d83eb8
> 12876.178511:   <2> x27: ffffff800802be08 x26: ffffff8dc9737000
> 12876.183967:   <2> x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffffe744ea1728
> 12876.189418:   <2> x23: ffffffe73f7e5a80 x22: 0000000000000558
> 12876.194863:   <2> x21: 0000000000000000 x20: 0000000001080020
> 12876.200312:   <2> x19: ffffffe73d06e440 x18: 0000000000000020
> 12876.205758:   <2> x17: 0000000000000014 x16: 0000000000000030
> 12876.211212:   <2> x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000
> 12876.216660:   <2> x13: 0000000013af314c x12: 0000002773f8a550
> 12876.222108:   <2> x11: 0000000000000538 x10: 0000000000000000
> 12876.227561:   <2> x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffffffe73d06e5f0
> 12876.233008:   <2> x7 : 0000000000924278 x6 : ffffffe76fe9ed80
> 12876.238455:   <2> x5 : ffffffe76fe9ed80 x4 : 000000000f500458
> 12876.243907:   <2> x3 : ffffff800802bce0 x2 : ffffff800802bce8
> 12876.249360:   <2> x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000867
> 12876.473522:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8da76c4>] tcp_rearm_rto+0x48/0x90
> 12876.478971:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8db16d8>] tcp_send_loss_probe+0x178/0x1b8
> 12876.485131:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8db6698>] tcp_write_timer_handler+0xf8/0x1c4
> 12876.491557:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8db68cc>] tcp_write_timer+0x5c/0x98
> 12876.497189:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8144f10>] call_timer_fn+0xc0/0x1b4
> 12876.502731:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8143f68>] run_timer_softirq+0x230/0x850
> 12876.508716:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8081b74>] __do_softirq+0x1dc/0x3a4
> 12876.514260:   <2> [<ffffff8dc80b8fec>] irq_exit+0xc8/0xd4
> 12876.519261:   <2> [<ffffff8dc812a004>] __handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xc4
> 12876.525245:   <2> [<ffffff8dc8081940>] gic_handle_irq+0x164/0x1bc
> 
> [net/ipv4/tcp_input.c]
> void tcp_rearm_rto(struct sock *sk)
> {
> ...
>         inet_csk_clear_xmit_timer(sk, ICSK_TIME_RETRANS);
>     } else {
>         u32 rto = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto;
>         /* Offset the time elapsed after installing regular RTO */
>         if (icsk->icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_REO_TIMEOUT ||
>             icsk->icsk_pending == ICSK_TIME_LOSS_PROBE) {
>             s64 delta_us = tcp_rto_delta_us(sk);
>             /* delta_us may not be positive if the socket is locked
>              * when the retrans timer fires and is rescheduled.
>              */
>             rto = usecs_to_jiffies(max_t(int, delta_us, 1));
> 
> 
> [include/net/tcp.h]
> static inline s64 tcp_rto_delta_us(const struct sock *sk)
> {
>     const struct sk_buff *skb = tcp_write_queue_head(sk);
>     u32 rto = inet_csk(sk)->icsk_rto;
>     u64 rto_time_stamp_us = skb->skb_mstamp + jiffies_to_usecs(rto);
> 
>     return rto_time_stamp_us - tcp_sk(sk)->tcp_mstamp;
> }
> 

We probably need to clear tp->packets_out :/