netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: bridge: validate the NUD_PERMANENT bit when adding an extern

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Date:   Mon, 2 Aug 2021 10:42:41 +0300
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        syzbot+9ba1174359adba5a5b7c@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: bridge: validate the NUD_PERMANENT bit when
 adding an extern_learn FDB entry

On 02/08/2021 02:17, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Currently it is possible to add broken extern_learn FDB entries to the
> bridge in two ways:
> 
> 1. Entries pointing towards the bridge device that are not local/permanent:
> 
> ip link add br0 type bridge
> bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn static
> 
> 2. Entries pointing towards the bridge device or towards a port that
> are marked as local/permanent, however the bridge does not process the
> 'permanent' bit in any way, therefore they are recorded as though they
> aren't permanent:
> 
> ip link add br0 type bridge
> bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn permanent
> 
> Since commit 52e4bec15546 ("net: bridge: switchdev: treat local FDBs the
> same as entries towards the bridge"), these incorrect FDB entries can
> even trigger NULL pointer dereferences inside the kernel.
> 
> This is because that commit made the assumption that all FDB entries
> that are not local/permanent have a valid destination port. For context,
> local / permanent FDB entries either have fdb->dst == NULL, and these
> point towards the bridge device and are therefore local and not to be
> used for forwarding, or have fdb->dst == a net_bridge_port structure
> (but are to be treated in the same way, i.e. not for forwarding).
> 
> That assumption _is_ correct as long as things are working correctly in
> the bridge driver, i.e. we cannot logically have fdb->dst == NULL under
> any circumstance for FDB entries that are not local. However, the
> extern_learn code path where FDB entries are managed by a user space
> controller show that it is possible for the bridge kernel driver to
> misinterpret the NUD flags of an entry transmitted by user space, and
> end up having fdb->dst == NULL while not being a local entry. This is
> invalid and should be rejected.
> 
> Before, the two commands listed above both crashed the kernel in this
> check from br_switchdev_fdb_notify:
> 

Not before 52e4bec15546 though, the check used to be:
struct net_device *dev = dst ? dst->dev : br->dev;

which wouldn't crash. So the fixes tag below is incorrect, you could
add a weird extern learn entry, but it wouldn't crash the kernel.

> 	struct net_device *dev = info.is_local ? br->dev : dst->dev;
> 
> info.is_local == false, dst == NULL.
> 
> After this patch, the invalid entry added by the first command is
> rejected:
> 
> ip link add br0 type bridge && bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn static; ip link del br0
> Error: bridge: FDB entry towards bridge must be permanent.
> 
> and the valid entry added by the second command is properly treated as a
> local address and does not crash br_switchdev_fdb_notify anymore:
> 
> ip link add br0 type bridge && bridge fdb add 00:01:02:03:04:05 dev br0 self extern_learn permanent; ip link del br0
> 
> Fixes: eb100e0e24a2 ("net: bridge: allow to add externally learned entries from user-space")

Please change fixes tag to 52e4bec15546.

> Reported-by: syzbot+9ba1174359adba5a5b7c@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> ---
[snip]

Thanks,
 Nik