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author | Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> | 2015-11-24 17:13:21 -0500 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-03-03 15:06:49 -0800 |
commit | ef8d4d93d242c0153d00ab782a18befdbef35dcc (patch) | |
tree | cfcd10e56e891a1dd37d3daea2bcdc55ce8e53ec /net/rds/send.c | |
parent | 1e65a06366da51b0b5c5b2c77804be1529406842 (diff) | |
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RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket
commit 8c7188b23474cca017b3ef354c4a58456f68303a upstream.
Sasha's found a NULL pointer dereference in the RDS connection code when
sending a message to an apparently unbound socket. The problem is caused
by the code checking if the socket is bound in rds_sendmsg(), which checks
the rs_bound_addr field without taking a lock on the socket. This opens a
race where rs_bound_addr is temporarily set but where the transport is not
in rds_bind(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference when trying to
dereference 'trans' in __rds_conn_create().
Vegard wrote a reproducer for this issue, so kindly ask him to share if
you're interested.
I cannot reproduce the NULL pointer dereference using Vegard's reproducer
with this patch, whereas I could without.
Complete earlier incomplete fix to CVE-2015-6937:
74e98eb08588 ("RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection")
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/rds/send.c')
-rw-r--r-- | net/rds/send.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/rds/send.c b/net/rds/send.c index a82fb660ec00..44222c0607c7 100644 --- a/net/rds/send.c +++ b/net/rds/send.c @@ -955,11 +955,13 @@ int rds_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, release_sock(sk); } - /* racing with another thread binding seems ok here */ + lock_sock(sk); if (daddr == 0 || rs->rs_bound_addr == 0) { + release_sock(sk); ret = -ENOTCONN; /* XXX not a great errno */ goto out; } + release_sock(sk); /* size of rm including all sgs */ ret = rds_rm_size(msg, payload_len); |