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When a 6pack device is detaching, the sixpack_close() will act to cleanup
necessary resources. Although del_timer_sync() in sixpack_close()
won't return if there is an active timer, one could use mod_timer() in
sp_xmit_on_air() to wake up timer again by calling userspace syscall such
as ax25_sendmsg(), ax25_connect() and ax25_ioctl().
This unexpected waked handler, sp_xmit_on_air(), realizes nothing about
the undergoing cleanup and may still call pty_write() to use driver layer
resources that have already been released.
One of the possible race conditions is shown below:
(USE) | (FREE)
ax25_sendmsg() |
ax25_queue_xmit() |
... |
sp_xmit() |
sp_encaps() | sixpack_close()
sp_xmit_on_air() | del_timer_sync(&sp->tx_t)
mod_timer(&sp->tx_t,...) | ...
| unregister_netdev()
| ...
(wait a while) | tty_release()
| tty_release_struct()
| release_tty()
sp_xmit_on_air() | tty_kref_put(tty_struct) //FREE
pty_write(tty_struct) //USE | ...
The corresponding fail log is shown below:
===============================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __run_timers.part.0+0x170/0x470
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88800a652ab8 by task swapper/2/0
...
Call Trace:
...
queue_work_on+0x3f/0x50
pty_write+0xcd/0xe0pty_write+0xcd/0xe0
sp_xmit_on_air+0xb2/0x1f0
call_timer_fn+0x28/0x150
__run_timers.part.0+0x3c2/0x470
run_timer_softirq+0x3b/0x80
__do_softirq+0xf1/0x380
...
This patch reorders the del_timer_sync() after the unregister_netdev()
to avoid UAF bugs. Because the unregister_netdev() is well synchronized,
it flushs out any pending queues, waits the refcount of net_device
decreases to zero and removes net_device from kernel. There is not any
running routines after executing unregister_netdev(). Therefore, we could
not arouse timer from userspace again.
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Lin Ma <linma@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.