Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_api: remove block_cb from driver_list before freeing Error handler of tcf_block_bind() frees the whole bo->cb_list on error. However, by that time the flow_block_cb instances are already in the driver list because driver ndo_setup_tc() callback is called before that up the call chain in tcf_block_offload_cmd(). This leaves dangling pointers to freed objects in the list and causes use-after-free[0]. Fix it by also removing flow_block_cb instances from driver_list before deallocating them. [0]: [ 279.868433] ================================================================== [ 279.869964] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in flow_block_cb_setup_simple+0x631/0x7c0 [ 279.871527] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888147e2bf20 by task tc/2963 [ 279.873151] CPU: 6 PID: 2963 Comm: tc Not tainted 6.3.0-rc6+ #4 [ 279.874273] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 279.876295] Call Trace: [ 279.876882] <TASK> [ 279.877413] dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50 [ 279.878198] print_report+0xc2/0x610 [ 279.878987] ? flow_block_cb_setup_simple+0x631/0x7c0 [ 279.879994] kasan_report+0xae/0xe0 [ 279.880750] ? flow_block_cb_setup_simple+0x631/0x7c0 [ 279.881744] ? mlx5e_tc_reoffload_flows_work+0x240/0x240 [mlx5_core] [ 279.883047] flow_block_cb_setup_simple+0x631/0x7c0 [ 279.884027] tcf_block_offload_cmd.isra.0+0x189/0x2d0 [ 279.885037] ? tcf_block_setup+0x6b0/0x6b0 [ 279.885901] ? mutex_lock+0x7d/0xd0 [ 279.886669] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath.constprop.0+0x2d0/0x2d0 [ 279.887844] ? ingress_init+0x1c0/0x1c0 [sch_ingress] [ 279.888846] tcf_block_get_ext+0x61c/0x1200 [ 279.889711] ingress_init+0x112/0x1c0 [sch_ingress] [ 279.890682] ? clsact_init+0x2b0/0x2b0 [sch_ingress] [ 279.891701] qdisc_create+0x401/0xea0 [ 279.892485] ? qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog+0x470/0x470 [ 279.893473] tc_modify_qdisc+0x6f7/0x16d0 [ 279.894344] ? tc_get_qdisc+0xac0/0xac0 [ 279.895213] ? mutex_lock+0x7d/0xd0 [ 279.896005] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10 [ 279.896910] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x5fe/0x9d0 [ 279.897770] ? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x2b0/0x2b0 [ 279.898672] ? __sys_sendmsg+0xb5/0x140 [ 279.899494] ? do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 [ 279.900302] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 [ 279.901337] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2e/0x40 [ 279.902177] ? kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 [ 279.903058] ? kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30 [ 279.903913] ? kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x40 [ 279.904836] ? ____kasan_slab_free+0x11a/0x1b0 [ 279.905741] ? kmem_cache_free+0x179/0x400 [ 279.906599] netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360 [ 279.907450] ? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x2b0/0x2b0 [ 279.908360] ? netlink_ack+0x1550/0x1550 [ 279.909192] ? rhashtable_walk_peek+0x170/0x170 [ 279.910135] ? kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1af/0x390 [ 279.911086] ? _copy_from_iter+0x3d6/0xc70 [ 279.912031] netlink_unicast+0x553/0x790 [ 279.912864] ? netlink_attachskb+0x6a0/0x6a0 [ 279.913763] ? netlink_recvmsg+0x416/0xb50 [ 279.914627] netlink_sendmsg+0x7a1/0xcb0 [ 279.915473] ? netlink_unicast+0x790/0x790 [ 279.916334] ? iovec_from_user.part.0+0x4d/0x220 [ 279.917293] ? netlink_unicast+0x790/0x790 [ 279.918159] sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190 [ 279.918938] ____sys_sendmsg+0x535/0x6b0 [ 279.919813] ? import_iovec+0x7/0x10 [ 279.920601] ? kernel_sendmsg+0x30/0x30 [ 279.921423] ? __copy_msghdr+0x3c0/0x3c0 [ 279.922254] ? import_iovec+0x7/0x10 [ 279.923041] ___sys_sendmsg+0xeb/0x170 [ 279.923854] ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x110/0x110 [ 279.924797] ? ___sys_recvmsg+0xd9/0x130 [ 279.925630] ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x183/0x470 [ 279.926656] ? ___sys_sendmsg+0x170/0x170 [ 279.927529] ? ctx_sched_in+0x530/0x530 [ 279.928369] ? update_curr+0x283/0x4f0 [ 279.929185] ? perf_event_update_userpage+0x570/0x570 [ 279.930201] ? __fget_light+0x57/0x520 [ 279.931023] ? __switch_to+0x53d/0xe70 [ 27 ---truncated---
Product status
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before cc5fe387c6294d0471cb7ed064efac97fac65ccc
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before 7311c8be3755611bf6edea4dfbeb190b4bdd489f
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before cb145932fcf6814e7e95e467eb70e7849a845ae9
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before 55866fe3fded3ce94ac3fc1bb3dfce654282f483
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before 26aec72429a05e917d574eca0efc5306c63a8862
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before 7b7a74ed303d532fb73ae4b1697f16a0fea89cd0
59094b1e5094c7e50a3d2912202fd30b6a1dadf8 (git) before da94a7781fc3c92e7df7832bc2746f4d39bc624e
5.3
Any version before 5.3
5.4.243 (semver)
5.10.180 (semver)
5.15.112 (semver)
6.1.29 (semver)
6.2.16 (semver)
6.3.3 (semver)
6.4 (original_commit_for_fix)
References
git.kernel.org/...c/cc5fe387c6294d0471cb7ed064efac97fac65ccc
git.kernel.org/...c/7311c8be3755611bf6edea4dfbeb190b4bdd489f
git.kernel.org/...c/cb145932fcf6814e7e95e467eb70e7849a845ae9
git.kernel.org/...c/55866fe3fded3ce94ac3fc1bb3dfce654282f483
git.kernel.org/...c/26aec72429a05e917d574eca0efc5306c63a8862
git.kernel.org/...c/7b7a74ed303d532fb73ae4b1697f16a0fea89cd0
git.kernel.org/...c/da94a7781fc3c92e7df7832bc2746f4d39bc624e
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