From bb1fceca22492109be12640d49f5ea5a544c6bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:56:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: fix use after free in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. Fixes: 6859d49475d4 ("[TCP]: Abstract tp->highest_sack accessing & point to next skb") Reported-by: Marco Grassi Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Neal Cardwell Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Reviewed-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/tcp.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index c00e7d51bb18..7717302cab91 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1523,6 +1523,8 @@ static inline void tcp_check_send_head(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb_unli { if (sk->sk_send_head == skb_unlinked) sk->sk_send_head = NULL; + if (tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack == skb_unlinked) + tcp_sk(sk)->highest_sack = NULL; } static inline void tcp_init_send_head(struct sock *sk)