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Commit 3f42d6dd authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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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.

Change-Id: I542104d73238bb671d6141cc5bc511831903cc19
Fixes: 6859d494 ("[TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb")
Reported-by: default avatarMarco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Jäinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNeal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


Git-commit: bb1fceca22492109be12640d49f5ea5a544c6bb4
Signed-off-by: default avatarRavi Kumar Siddojigari <rsiddoji@codeaurora.org>
parent 1a5dc2a5
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