netdev - Re: [PATCH][for v4.4 only] udp: drop corrupt packets earlier to avoid data corruption

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Message-ID: <CANn89iJmJdCdhn3pJYs4sh4YJsStqOQgGnvTyNKf=iPrN8Av5g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:09:37 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>,
        "w@....eu" <w@....eu>,
        Joseph Salisbury <Joseph.Salisbury@...rosoft.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        "viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "ohering@...e.com" <ohering@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][for v4.4 only] udp: drop corrupt packets earlier to avoid
 data corruption

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 5:06 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 06:03:00PM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> >> From: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 6:55 PM
> >> To: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; edumazet@...gle.com;
> >> stable@...r.kernel.org
> >> Cc: w@....eu; Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>; Joseph Salisbury
> >> <Joseph.Salisbury@...rosoft.com>; Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>;
> >> viro@...iv.linux.org.uk; netdev@...r.kernel.org; davem@...emloft.net;
> >> ohering@...e.com
> >> Subject: [PATCH][for v4.4 only] udp: drop corrupt packets earlier to avoid data
> >> corruption
> >>
> >> The v4.4 stable kernel lacks this bugfix:
> >> commit 327868212381 ("make skb_copy_datagram_msg() et.al. preserve
> >> ->msg_iter on error").
> >> As a result, the v4.4 kernel can deliver corrupt data to the application
> >> when a corrupt UDP packet is closely followed by a valid UDP packet: the
> >> same invocation of the recvmsg() syscall can deliver the corrupt packet's
> >> UDP payload to the application with the UDP payload length and the
> >> "from IP/Port" of the valid packet.
> >>
> >> Details:
> >>
> >> For a UDP packet longer than 76 bytes (see the v5.8-rc6 kernel's
> >> include/linux/skbuff.h:3951), Linux delays the UDP checksum verification
> >> until the application invokes the syscall recvmsg().
> >>
> >> In the recvmsg() syscall handler, while Linux is copying the UDP payload
> >> to the application's memory, it calculates the UDP checksum. If the
> >> calculated checksum doesn't match the received checksum, Linux drops the
> >> corrupt UDP packet, and then starts to process the next packet (if any),
> >> and if the next packet is valid (i.e. the checksum is correct), Linux
> >> will copy the valid UDP packet's payload to the application's receiver
> >> buffer.
> >>
> >> The bug is: before Linux starts to copy the valid UDP packet, the data
> >> structure used to track how many more bytes should be copied to the
> >> application memory is not reset to what it was when the application just
> >> entered the kernel by the syscall! Consequently, only a small portion or
> >> none of the valid packet's payload is copied to the application's
> >> receive buffer, and later when the application exits from the kernel,
> >> actually most of the application's receive buffer contains the payload
> >> of the corrupt packet while recvmsg() returns the length of the UDP
> >> payload of the valid packet.
> >>
> >> For the mainline kernel, the bug was fixed in commit 327868212381,
> >> but unluckily the bugfix is only backported to v4.9+. It turns out
> >> backporting 327868212381 to v4.4 means that some supporting patches
> >> must be backported first, so the overall changes seem too big, so the
> >> alternative is performs the csum validation earlier and drops the
> >> corrupt packets earlier.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
> >> ---
> >>  net/ipv4/udp.c | 3 +--
> >>  net/ipv6/udp.c | 6 ++----
> >>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> >> index bb30699..49ab587 100644
> >> --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
> >> +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
> >> @@ -1589,8 +1589,7 @@ int udp_queue_rcv_skb(struct sock *sk, struct
> >> sk_buff *skb)
> >>              }
> >>      }
> >>
> >> -    if (rcu_access_pointer(sk->sk_filter) &&
> >> -        udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb))
> >> +    if (udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb))
> >>              goto csum_error;
> >>
> >>      if (sk_rcvqueues_full(sk, sk->sk_rcvbuf)) {
> >> diff --git a/net/ipv6/udp.c b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> >> index 73f1112..2d6703d 100644
> >> --- a/net/ipv6/udp.c
> >> +++ b/net/ipv6/udp.c
> >> @@ -686,10 +686,8 @@ int udpv6_queue_rcv_skb(struct sock *sk, struct
> >> sk_buff *skb)
> >>              }
> >>      }
> >>
> >> -    if (rcu_access_pointer(sk->sk_filter)) {
> >> -            if (udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb))
> >> -                    goto csum_error;
> >> -    }
> >> +    if (udp_lib_checksum_complete(skb))
> >> +            goto csum_error;
> >>
> >>      if (sk_rcvqueues_full(sk, sk->sk_rcvbuf)) {
> >>              UDP6_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk),
> >> --
> >> 1.8.3.1
> >
> >+Sasha
> >
> >This patch is targeted to the linux-4.4.y branch of the stable tree.
>
> Eric, will you ack this (or have a missed a previous ack)?

Sure, although I have already a Signed-off-by: tag on this one, since
I wrote this simpler fix for stable.

If needed :
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks.