Subject: [PATCH net v2 1/2] tun: publish tfile after it's fully initialized

From: Stanislav Fomichev <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 13:38:38 -0800

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000d1
Call Trace:
 ? napi_gro_frags+0xa7/0x2c0
 tun_get_user+0xb50/0xf20
 tun_chr_write_iter+0x53/0x70
 new_sync_write+0xff/0x160
 vfs_write+0x191/0x1e0
 __x64_sys_write+0x5e/0xd0
 do_syscall_64+0x47/0xf0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

I think there is a subtle race between sending a packet via tap and
attaching it:

CPU0:                    CPU1:
tun_chr_ioctl(TUNSETIFF)
  tun_set_iff
    tun_attach
      rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
                         tun_fops->write_iter()
                           tun_chr_write_iter
                             tun_napi_alloc_frags
                               napi_get_frags
                                 napi->skb = napi_alloc_skb
      tun_napi_init
        netif_napi_add
          napi->skb = NULL
                              napi->skb is NULL here
                              napi_gro_frags
                                napi_frags_skb
				  skb = napi->skb
				  skb_reset_mac_header(skb)
				  panic()

Move rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun) and rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles) to
be the last thing we do in tun_attach(); this should guarantee that when we
call tun_get() we always get an initialized object.

v2 changes:
* remove extra napi_mutex locks/unlocks for napi operations

Reported-by: syzbot <[email-masked]>
Fixes: 90e33d459407 ("tun: enable napi_gro_frags() for TUN/TAP driver")

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index a4fdad475594..18656c4094b3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -856,10 +856,6 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
 		err = 0;
 	}
 
-	rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
-	rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues], tfile);
-	tun->numqueues++;
-
 	if (tfile->detached) {
 		tun_enable_queue(tfile);
 	} else {
@@ -876,6 +872,13 @@ static int tun_attach(struct tun_struct *tun, struct file *file,
 	 * refcnt.
 	 */
 
+	/* Publish tfile->tun and tun->tfiles only after we've fully
+	 * initialized tfile; otherwise we risk using half-initialized
+	 * object.
+	 */
+	rcu_assign_pointer(tfile->tun, tun);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(tun->tfiles[tun->numqueues], tfile);
+	tun->numqueues++;
 out:
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.20.1.97.g81188d93c3-goog