netdev - Re: [PATCH NET] vrf: fix null pointer dereference in vrf_finish

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Date:   Fri, 6 Aug 2021 15:42:27 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...nvz.org,
        Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH NET] vrf: fix null pointer dereference in
 vrf_finish_output()

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 15:53:00 +0300 Vasily Averin wrote:
> After 14ee70ca89e6 ("vrf: use skb_expand_head in vrf_finish_output")
> skb->dev  is accessed after skb free.
> Let's replace skb->dev by dev = skb_dst(skb)->dev:
> vrf_finish_output() is only called from vrf_output(),
> it set skb->dev to skb_dst(skb)->dev and calls POSTROUTING netfilter
> hooks, where output device should not be changed.
> 
> Fixes: 14ee70ca89e6 ("vrf: use skb_expand_head in vrf_finish_output")
> Reported-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>

Thanks for following up! I decided to pick a similar patch from Dan
Carpenter [1] because the chunk quoted below is not really necessary.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20210806150435.GB15586@kili/

> @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static int vrf_finish_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *s
>  	}
>  
>  	rcu_read_unlock_bh();
> -	vrf_tx_error(skb->dev, skb);
> +	vrf_tx_error(dev, skb);
>  	return -EINVAL;
>  }
>