netdev - [PATCH] rxrpc: fix bad unlock balance in rxrpc_do

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Date:   Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:57:50 +0800
From:   Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@...il.com>
To:     syzbot+7f0483225d0c94cb3441@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        paskripkin@...il.com, skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
        18801353760@....com, Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rxrpc: fix bad unlock balance in rxrpc_do_sendmsg

Syzkaller reports bad unlock balance bug as follows:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
syz-executor.0/4094 is trying to release lock (&call->user_mutex) at:
[<ffffffff87c1d8d1>] rxrpc_do_sendmsg+0x851/0x1110 net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c:754
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by syz-executor.0/4094.

stack backtrace:
[...]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_unlock_imbalance_bug include/trace/events/lock.h:69 [inline]
 __lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5333 [inline]
 lock_release.cold+0x49/0x4e kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5686
 __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x99/0x5e0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:907
 rxrpc_do_sendmsg+0x851/0x1110 net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c:754
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0xab/0xe0 net/socket.c:734
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5c2/0x7a0 net/socket.c:2485
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xdb/0x160 net/socket.c:2539
 __sys_sendmsg+0xc3/0x160 net/socket.c:2568
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
 [...]
 </TASK>
------------------------------------

When kernel wants to send a message through an RxRPC socket in
rxrpc_do_sendmsg(), kernel should hold the call->user_mutex lock,
or it will triggers bug when releasing this lock before returning
from rxrpc_do_sendmsg().

Yet the problem is that during rxrpc_do_sendmsg(), kernel may call
rxrpc_wait_for_tx_window_intr() to wait for space to appear in the
tx queue or a signal to occur. When kernel fails the
mutex_lock_interruptible(), kernel will returns from the
rxrpc_wait_for_tx_window_intr() without acquiring the mutex lock, then
triggers bug when releasing the mutex lock in rxrpc_do_sendmsg().

This patch solves it by acquiring the call->user_mutex lock, when
kernel fails the mutex_lock_interruptible() before returning from
the rxrpc_wait_for_tx_window_intr().

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+7f0483225d0c94cb3441@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hawkins Jiawei <yin31149@...il.com>
---
 net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
index 1d38e279e2ef..e13043d357d5 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/sendmsg.c
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ static int rxrpc_wait_for_tx_window_intr(struct rxrpc_sock *rx,
 		trace_rxrpc_transmit(call, rxrpc_transmit_wait);
 		mutex_unlock(&call->user_mutex);
 		*timeo = schedule_timeout(*timeo);
-		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&call->user_mutex) < 0)
+		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&call->user_mutex) < 0) {
+			mutex_lock(&call->user_mutex);
 			return sock_intr_errno(*timeo);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
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