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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:58:12 +0900 (JST)
From: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
To: kuniyu@...zon.com
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 syzbot+c71bc336c5061153b502@...kaller.appspotmail.com, nogikh@...gle.com,
 syzkaller@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: Return error from sk_stream_wait_connect() if
 sk_wait_event() fails

On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:46:14 +0900, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> From: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:31:06 +0900 (JST)
>> On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:46:22 +0900, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
>> > From: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
>> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:09:22 +0900
>> >> The following NULL pointer dereference issue occurred:
>> >> 
>> >> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
>> >> <...>
>> >> RIP: 0010:ccid_hc_tx_send_packet net/dccp/ccid.h:166 [inline]
>> >> RIP: 0010:dccp_write_xmit+0x49/0x140 net/dccp/output.c:356
>> >> <...>
>> >> Call Trace:
>> >>  <TASK>
>> >>  dccp_sendmsg+0x642/0x7e0 net/dccp/proto.c:801
>> >>  inet_sendmsg+0x63/0x90 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:846
>> >>  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
>> >>  __sock_sendmsg+0x83/0xe0 net/socket.c:745
>> >>  ____sys_sendmsg+0x443/0x510 net/socket.c:2558
>> >>  ___sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x150 net/socket.c:2612
>> >>  __sys_sendmsg+0xa6/0x120 net/socket.c:2641
>> >>  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2650 [inline]
>> >>  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2648 [inline]
>> >>  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2648
>> >>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
>> >>  do_syscall_64+0x43/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
>> >>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
>> >> 
>> >> sk_wait_event() returns an error (-EPIPE) if disconnect() is called on the
>> >> socket waiting for the event. However, sk_stream_wait_connect() returns
>> >> success, i.e. zero, even if sk_wait_event() returns -EPIPE, so a function
>> >> that waits for a connection with sk_stream_wait_connect() may misbehave.
>> >> 
>> >> In the case of the above DCCP issue, dccp_sendmsg() is waiting for the
>> >> connection. If disconnect() is called in concurrently, the above issue
>> >> occurs.
>> >> 
>> >> This patch fixes the issue by returning error from sk_stream_wait_connect()
>> >> if sk_wait_event() fails.
>> >> 
>> >> Fixes: 419ce133ab92 ("tcp: allow again tcp_disconnect() when threads are waiting")
>> >> Signed-off-by: Shigeru Yoshida <syoshida@...hat.com>
>> > 
>> > Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
>> > 
>> > I guess you picked this issue from syzbot's report.
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/0000000000009e122006088a2b8d@google.com/
>> > 
>> > If so, let's give a proper credit to syzbot and its authors:
>> > 
>> > Reported-by: syzbot+c71bc336c5061153b502@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>> 
>> Hi Kuniyuki-san,
>> 
>> Thank you very much for your review. I didn't notice the syzbot's
>> report. Actually, I found this issue by running syzkaller on my
>> machine.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying.
> 
> I'm also running syzkaller locally and used to add
> 
>   Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> 
> But, it was confusing for syzbot's owners, and I got a mail from one of
> the authors, Aleksandr Nogikh.  Since then, if syzkaller found an issue
> that was not on the syzbot dashboard, I have used
> 
>   Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>

Thanks for your information. This tag looks great, so I will use this
next time I send a fix found by local syzkaller :)

Thanks,
Shigeru

> 
> .  FWIW, here's Aleksandr's words from the mail.
> 
> ---8<---
> Maybe it would be just a little more clear if instead of
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> you'd write
> Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> if the bug was found only by a local syzkaller instance, because
> otherwise it implies that the bug was found by syzbot, which is not
> really the case here :)
> ---8<---
> 
> 
>> 
>> Now, I tested this patch with syzbot, and it looks good.
>> 
>> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c71bc336c5061153b502@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> 
> This time, this tag is best.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>