UPSTREAM: 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)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:56:42 +0000 (14:26 +0530)
commit2a111a3c242aed0fbbe6024a65f652c7ba853c8a
tree19f0d11a02074aa5fe602394773870047f18c523
parentbfdbb3be1eaaf13cfbb7ac421356369e53fa7d0f
UPSTREAM: tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue()

(cherry picked from commit bb1fceca22492109be12640d49f5ea5a544c6bb4)

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>
Change-Id: I58bb02d6e4e399612e8580b9e02d11e661df82f5
Bug: 31183296
include/net/tcp.h