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From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia•com>
To: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail•com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>,
	Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu•com>,
	Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean•com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel•org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+b53a9c0d1ea4ad62da8b@syzkaller•appspotmail.com>,
	<davem@davemloft•net>, <edumazet@google•com>, <jiri@resnulli•us>,
	<linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	<pabeni@redhat•com>, <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups•com>,
	<xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>, <peilin.ye@bytedance•com>,
	<hdanton@sina•com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in mini_qdisc_pair_swap
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:43:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1mcqiqq.fsf@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230427173554.GA11725@bytedance>

On Thu 27 Apr 2023 at 10:35, Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail•com> wrote:
> Hi Pedro, Vlad,
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 03:26:03PM +0300, Vlad Buslov wrote:
>> On Wed 26 Apr 2023 at 16:42, Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail•com> wrote:
>> > As we can see there're interleaving mini_qdisc_pair_swap() calls between
>> > Qdisc A and B, causing all kinds of troubles, including the UAF (thread
>> > 2 writing to mini Qdisc a1's rcu_state after Qdisc A has already been
>> > freed) reported by syzbot.
>> 
>> Great analysis! However, it is still not quite clear to me how threads 1
>> and 2 access each other RCU state when q->miniqp is a private memory of
>> the Qdisc, so 1 should only see A->miniqp and 2 only B->miniqp. And both
>> miniqps should be protected from deallocation by reference that lockless
>> RTM_NEWTFILTER obtains.
>
> Thanks for taking a look!
>
> To elaborate, p_miniq is a pointer of pointer of struct mini_Qdisc,
> initialized in ingress_init() to point to eth0->miniq_ingress, which
> isn't private to A or B.
>
> In other words, both A->miniqp->p_miniq and B->miniqp->p_miniq point to
> eth0->miniq_ingress.
>
> For your reference, roughly speaking, mini_qdisc_pair_swap() does this:
>
>   miniq_old = dev->miniq_ingress;
>
>   if (destroying) {
>           dev->miniq_ingress = NULL;
>   } else {
>           rcu_wait();
>           dev->miniq_ingress = miniq_new;
>   }
>
>   if (miniq_old)
>           miniq_old->rcu_state = ...
>
> On Wed 26 Apr 2023 at 16:42, Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail•com> wrote:
>>  Thread 1               A's refcnt   Thread 2
>>   RTM_NEWQDISC (A, locked)
>>    qdisc_create(A)               1
>>    qdisc_graft(A)                9
>>
>>   RTM_NEWTFILTER (X, lockless)
>>    __tcf_qdisc_find(A)          10
>>    tcf_chain0_head_change(A)
>>  ! mini_qdisc_pair_swap(A)
>
>   1. A adds its first filter,
>      miniq_old (eth0->miniq_ingress) is NULL,
>      RCU wait starts,
>      RCU wait ends,
>      change eth0->miniq_ingress to A's mini Qdisc.
>
>>             |                        RTM_NEWQDISC (B, locked)
>>             |                    2    qdisc_graft(B)
>>             |                    1    notify_and_destroy(A)
>>             |
>>             |                        RTM_NEWTFILTER (Y, lockless)
>>             |                         tcf_chain0_head_change(B)
>>             |                       ! mini_qdisc_pair_swap(B)
>
>                       2. B adds its first filter,
>                          miniq_old (eth0->miniq_ingress) is A's mini Qdisc,
>                          RCU wait starts,
>
>>    tcf_block_release(A)          0             |
>>    qdisc_destroy(A)                            |
>>    tcf_chain0_head_change_cb_del(A)            |
>>  ! mini_qdisc_pair_swap(A)                     |
>
>   3. A destroys itself,
>      miniq_old (eth0->miniq_ingress) is A's mini Qdisc,
>      (destroying, so no RCU wait)
>      change eth0->miniq_ingress to NULL,
>      update miniq_old, or A's mini Qdisc's RCU state,
>      A is freed.
>
>                       2. RCU wait ends,
> 		         change eth0->miniq_ingress to B's mini Qdisc,
> 	 use-after-free: update miniq_old, or A's mini Qdisc's RCU state.

Thanks for the clarification.

>
> I hope this helps.  Sorry I didn't go into details; this UAF isn't the
> only thing that is unacceptable here:
>
> Consider B.  We add a filter Y to B, expecting ingress packets on eth0
> to go through Y.  Then all of a sudden, A sets eth0->miniq_ingress to
> NULL during its destruction, so packets will not find Y at all on
> datapath (sch_handle_ingress()).  New filter becomes invisible - this is
> already buggy enough :-/
>
> So I think B's first call to mini_qdisc_pair_swap() should happen after
> A's last call (in ingress_destroy()), which is what I am trying to
> achieve here.

Makes sense to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-28 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-24  0:52 [syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in mini_qdisc_pair_swap syzbot
2023-03-29  1:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-29  3:37   ` Seth Forshee
2023-03-29 19:07     ` Pedro Tammela
2023-04-03 15:58       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-04-17 23:00         ` Peilin Ye
2023-04-26 23:42           ` Peilin Ye
2023-04-27  2:31             ` Pedro Tammela
2023-04-27 12:26             ` Vlad Buslov
2023-04-27 17:35               ` Peilin Ye
2023-04-28 12:43                 ` Vlad Buslov [this message]
2023-05-06  0:09             ` [PATCH net 0/6] net/sched: Fixes for sch_ingress and sch_clsact Peilin Ye
2023-05-06  0:12               ` [PATCH net 1/6] net/sched: sch_ingress: Only create under TC_H_INGRESS Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 11:22                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-05-06  0:13               ` [PATCH net 2/6] net/sched: sch_clsact: Only create under TC_H_CLSACT Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 11:23                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-05-06  0:14               ` [PATCH net 3/6] net/sched: Reserve TC_H_INGRESS (TC_H_CLSACT) for ingress (clsact) Qdiscs Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 11:23                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-05-06  0:14               ` [PATCH net 4/6] net/sched: Prohibit regrafting ingress or clsact Qdiscs Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 11:24                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-05-06  0:15               ` [PATCH net 5/6] net/sched: Refactor qdisc_graft() for ingress and " Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 11:29                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-05-08 22:24                   ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 14:11                 ` Pedro Tammela
2023-05-06  0:16               ` [PATCH net 6/6] net/sched: qdisc_destroy() old ingress and clsact Qdiscs before grafting Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 11:32                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2023-05-08 21:58                   ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-08 14:12                 ` Pedro Tammela
2023-05-08 22:01                   ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-09  1:33                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-10 20:11                   ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-10 23:15                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-11 20:40                       ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-11 23:20                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-11 23:46                           ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-12  0:11                             ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-15 22:45                               ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-16 19:22                                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-16 19:35                                   ` Vlad Buslov
2023-05-16 21:50                                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-16 22:58                                       ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-17  0:39                                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-17  8:49                                           ` Vlad Buslov
2023-05-17 18:48                                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-17 22:20                                               ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-17 18:48                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-05-17 21:18                   ` Peilin Ye
2023-05-24 14:31 ` [syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in mini_qdisc_pair_swap Pedro Tammela
2023-05-24 15:02   ` syzbot
2023-05-24 15:05   ` Pedro Tammela
2023-05-24 15:34     ` syzbot

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