netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] ipnetns: use-after-free problem in get_netnsid_from

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Date:   Sat, 4 May 2019 15:08:27 +0800
From:   Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
CC:     <stephen@...workplumber.org>, <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
        <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        "wangxiaogang (F)" <wangxiaogang3@...wei.com>,
        Mingfangsen <mingfangsen@...wei.com>,
        "Zhoukang (A)" <zhoukang7@...wei.com>, <kouhuiying@...wei.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipnetns: use-after-free problem in
 get_netnsid_from_name func

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:38:39PM +0800, Zhiqiang Liu wrote:
>> From: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>
>>
>> Follow the following steps:
>> # ip netns add net1
>> # export MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=0
>> # ip netns list
>> then Segmentation fault (core dumped) will occur.
>>
>> In get_netnsid_from_name func, answer is freed before rta_getattr_u32(tb[NETNSA_NSID]),
>> where tb[] refers to answer`s content. If we set MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD_=0, mmap will
>> be adoped to malloc memory, which will be freed immediately after calling free func.
>> So reading tb[NETNSA_NSID] will access the released memory after free(answer).
>>
>> Here, we will call get_netnsid_from_name(tb[NETNSA_NSID]) before free(answer).
>>
>> Fixes: 86bf43c7c2f ("lib/libnetlink: update rtnl_talk to support malloc buff at run time")
>> Reported-by: Huiying Kou <kouhuiying@...wei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
> 
> Please always Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org for iproute2 patches.
> 
> Thanks, Phil

Thank you for reminding me. I will Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org in the v3 patch.

> 
> .
>