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Message-ID: <20230508172016.49942-1-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 10:20:16 -0700
From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
To: <edumazet@...gle.com>
CC: <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <kuni1840@...il.com>,
<kuniyu@...zon.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
<syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: Fix sk->sk_stamp race in sock_recv_cmsgs().
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 19:08:58 +0200
> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 6:58 PM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:
> >
> > KCSAN found a data race in sock_recv_cmsgs() [0] where the read access
> > to sk->sk_stamp needs READ_ONCE().
> >
> > Also, there is another race like below. If the torn load of the high
> > 32-bits precedes WRITE_ONCE(sk, skb->tstamp) and later the written
> > lower 32-bits happens to match with SK_DEFAULT_STAMP, the final result
> > of sk->sk_stamp could be 0.
> >
> > sock_recv_cmsgs() ioctl(SIOCGSTAMP) sock_recv_cmsgs()
> > | | |
> > |- if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP)) |
> > | | |
> > | `- sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP)
> > | |
> > | `- if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP))
> > `- if (sk->sk_stamp == SK_DEFAULT_STAMP) `- sock_write_timestamp(sk, skb->tstamp)
> > `- sock_write_timestamp(sk, 0)
> >
> > Even with READ_ONCE(), we could get the same result if READ_ONCE() precedes
> > WRITE_ONCE() because the SK_DEFAULT_STAMP check and WRITE_ONCE(sk_stamp, 0)
> > are not atomic.
> >
> > Let's avoid the race by cmpxchg() on 64-bits architecture or seqlock on
> > 32-bits machines.
> >
>
> I disagree. Please use WRITE_ONCE(), even if we know it is racy on 32bit.
>
> sock_read_timestamp() and sock_write_timestamp() already are racy, and
> we do not care.
I think it's not racy since commit 3a0ed3e96197 ("sock: Make sock->sk_stamp
thread-safe"), which introduced seqlock in sock_read_timestamp() and
sock_write_timestamp().
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