Re: [PATCH 4.14 09/89] net: Prevent invalid access to skb->prev in __qdisc_drop_all

From: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 09/89] net: Prevent invalid access to skb->prev in __qdisc_drop_all
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:54:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181214155435.GK41383@MacBook-Pro-19.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181214155226.GJ41383@MacBook-Pro-19.local>

On 14/12/18 - 07:52:26, Christoph Paasch wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> On 14/12/18 - 12:59:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 9410d386d0a829ace9558336263086c2fbbe8aed ]
> > 
> > __qdisc_drop_all() accesses skb->prev to get to the tail of the
> > segment-list.
> > 
> > With commit 68d2f84a1368 ("net: gro: properly remove skb from list")
> > the skb-list handling has been changed to set skb->next to NULL and set
> > the list-poison on skb->prev.
> > 
> > With that change, __qdisc_drop_all() will panic when it tries to
> > dereference skb->prev.
> > 
> > Since commit 992cba7e276d ("net: Add and use skb_list_del_init().")
> > __list_del_entry is used, leaving skb->prev unchanged (thus,
> > pointing to the list-head if it's the first skb of the list).
> > This will make __qdisc_drop_all modify the next-pointer of the list-head
> > and result in a panic later on:
> > 
> > [   34.501053] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
> > [   34.501968] CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc2.mptcp #108
> > [   34.502887] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
> > [   34.504074] RIP: 0010:dev_gro_receive+0x343/0x1f90
> > [   34.504751] Code: e0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 30 00 0f 85 4a 1c 00 00 4d 8b 24 24 4c 39 65 d0 0f 84 0a 04 00 00 49 8d 7c 24 38 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 0f b6 04 30 84 c0 74 08 3c 04
> > [   34.507060] RSP: 0018:ffff8883af507930 EFLAGS: 00010202
> > [   34.507761] RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: ffff8883970b2c80 RCX: 1ffff11072e165a6
> > [   34.508640] RDX: 1ffff11075867008 RSI: ffff8883ac338040 RDI: 0000000000000038
> > [   34.509493] RBP: ffff8883af5079d0 R08: ffff8883970b2d40 R09: 0000000000000062
> > [   34.510346] R10: 0000000000000034 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> > [   34.511215] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff8883ac338008
> > [   34.512082] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8883af500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [   34.513036] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > [   34.513741] CR2: 000055ccc3e9d020 CR3: 00000003abf32000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> > [   34.514593] Call Trace:
> > [   34.514893]  <IRQ>
> > [   34.515157]  napi_gro_receive+0x93/0x150
> > [   34.515632]  receive_buf+0x893/0x3700
> > [   34.516094]  ? __netif_receive_skb+0x1f/0x1a0
> > [   34.516629]  ? virtnet_probe+0x1b40/0x1b40
> > [   34.517153]  ? __stable_node_chain+0x4d0/0x850
> > [   34.517684]  ? kfree+0x9a/0x180
> > [   34.518067]  ? __kasan_slab_free+0x171/0x190
> > [   34.518582]  ? detach_buf+0x1df/0x650
> > [   34.519061]  ? lapic_next_event+0x5a/0x90
> > [   34.519539]  ? virtqueue_get_buf_ctx+0x280/0x7f0
> > [   34.520093]  virtnet_poll+0x2df/0xd60
> > [   34.520533]  ? receive_buf+0x3700/0x3700
> > [   34.521027]  ? qdisc_watchdog_schedule_ns+0xd5/0x140
> > [   34.521631]  ? htb_dequeue+0x1817/0x25f0
> > [   34.522107]  ? sch_direct_xmit+0x142/0xf30
> > [   34.522595]  ? virtqueue_napi_schedule+0x26/0x30
> > [   34.523155]  net_rx_action+0x2f6/0xc50
> > [   34.523601]  ? napi_complete_done+0x2f0/0x2f0
> > [   34.524126]  ? kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
> > [   34.524608]  ? _raw_spin_lock+0x7d/0xd0
> > [   34.525070]  ? _raw_spin_lock_bh+0xd0/0xd0
> > [   34.525563]  ? kvm_guest_apic_eoi_write+0x6b/0x80
> > [   34.526130]  ? apic_ack_irq+0x9e/0xe0
> > [   34.526567]  __do_softirq+0x188/0x4b5
> > [   34.527015]  irq_exit+0x151/0x180
> > [   34.527417]  do_IRQ+0xdb/0x150
> > [   34.527783]  common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
> > [   34.528223]  </IRQ>
> > 
> > This patch makes sure that skb->prev is set to NULL when entering
> > netem_enqueue.
> > 
> > Cc: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> > Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> > Fixes: 68d2f84a1368 ("net: gro: properly remove skb from list")
> > Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> I don't think this patch needs to be backported. I haven't hit this panic on
> v4.14.x (although, I only have been using v4.14.79 for now - not yet the
> latest one). And the commits that seem to have introduced the issue haven't
> been backported either AFAICS. That being said, I don't think a backport
> would cause any side-effects.
> 
> Or have you seen reports of this panic in the stable branches?
> 
> (same for the other stable branches v4.4,... - cfr., the other mails
> regarding this patch here)

To clarify: Backport to v4.19.x is needed. The backport to v4.14 and older
should not be needed.

Christoph

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Christoph
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > ---
> >  net/sched/sch_netem.c |    3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > --- a/net/sched/sch_netem.c
> > +++ b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
> > @@ -436,6 +436,9 @@ static int netem_enqueue(struct sk_buff
> >  	int count = 1;
> >  	int rc = NET_XMIT_SUCCESS;
> >  
> > +	/* Do not fool qdisc_drop_all() */
> > +	skb->prev = NULL;
> > +
> >  	/* Random duplication */
> >  	if (q->duplicate && q->duplicate >= get_crandom(&q->dup_cor))
> >  		++count;
> > 
> > 