netdev - [PATCH 1/2] ax25: improve the incomplete fix to avoid UAF and NPD bugs

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Message-Id: <87e509950a15e85274f902f29311f6234ee9f59f.1643343397.git.duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:47:15 +0800
From:   Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
To:     linux-hams@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     jreuter@...na.de, ralf@...ux-mips.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ax25: improve the incomplete fix to avoid UAF and NPD bugs

The previous commit 1ade48d0c27d ("ax25: NPD bug when detaching
AX25 device") introduce lock_sock() into ax25_kill_by_device to
prevent NPD bug. But the concurrency NPD or UAF bug will occur,
when lock_sock() or release_sock() dereferences the ax25_cb->sock.

The NULL pointer dereference bug can be shown as below:

ax25_kill_by_device()        | ax25_release()
                             |   ax25_destroy_socket()
                             |     ax25_cb_del()
  ...                        |     ...
                             |     ax25->sk=NULL;
  lock_sock(s->sk); //(1)    |
  s->ax25_dev = NULL;        |     ...
  release_sock(s->sk); //(2) |
  ...                        |

The root cause is that the sock is set to null before dereference
site (1) or (2). Therefore, this patch extracts the ax25_cb->sock
in advance, and uses ax25_list_lock to protect it, which can synchronize
with ax25_cb_del() and ensure the value of sock is not null before
dereference sites.

The concurrency UAF bug can be shown as below:

ax25_kill_by_device()        | ax25_release()
                             |   ax25_destroy_socket()
  ...                        |   ...
                             |   sock_put(sk); //FREE
  lock_sock(s->sk); //(1)    |
  s->ax25_dev = NULL;        |   ...
  release_sock(s->sk); //(2) |
  ...                        |

The root cause is that the sock is released before dereference
site (1) or (2). Therefore, this patch uses sock_hold() to increase
the refcount of sock and uses ax25_list_lock to protect it, which
can synchronize with ax25_cb_del() in ax25_destroy_socket() and
ensure the sock wil not be released before dereference sites.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
---
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index 02f43f3e2c5..44a8730c26a 100644
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static void ax25_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	ax25_dev *ax25_dev;
 	ax25_cb *s;
+	struct sock *sk;

 	if ((ax25_dev = ax25_dev_ax25dev(dev)) == NULL)
 		return;
@@ -85,13 +86,15 @@ static void ax25_kill_by_device(struct net_device *dev)
 again:
 	ax25_for_each(s, &ax25_list) {
 		if (s->ax25_dev == ax25_dev) {
+			sk = s->sk;
+			sock_hold(sk);
 			spin_unlock_bh(&ax25_list_lock);
-			lock_sock(s->sk);
+			lock_sock(sk);
 			s->ax25_dev = NULL;
-			release_sock(s->sk);
+			release_sock(sk);
 			ax25_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH);
 			spin_lock_bh(&ax25_list_lock);
-
+			sock_put(sk);
 			/* The entry could have been deleted from the
 			 * list meanwhile and thus the next pointer is
 			 * no longer valid.  Play it safe and restart
-- 
2.17.1