tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:56:26 +0000 (05:56 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:22:57 +0000 (23:22 -0700)
commitbb1fceca22492109be12640d49f5ea5a544c6bb4
tree7fb7a79f6c6b3d347642aa3b267eae8ccc01e487
parente0d8b2908696d30583ae5764e33332e71cbbccc9
tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()

When tcp_sendmsg() allocates a fresh and empty skb, it puts it at the
tail of the write queue using tcp_add_write_queue_tail()

Then it attempts to copy user data into this fresh skb.

If the copy fails, we undo the work and remove the fresh skb.

Unfortunately, this undo lacks the change done to tp->highest_sack and
we can leave a dangling pointer (to a freed skb)

Later, tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() can dereference this pointer and
access freed memory. For regular kernels where memory is not unmapped,
this might cause SACK bugs because tcp_highest_sack_seq() is buggy,
returning garbage instead of tp->snd_nxt, but with various debug
features like CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, this can crash the kernel.

This bug was found by Marco Grassi thanks to syzkaller.

Fixes: 6859d49475d4 ("[TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb")
Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/net/tcp.h