Re: memory leak in sctp_process_init

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 11:20:48 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:20:11AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 08:37:57PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 03:07:09PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> > > +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> > > @@ -2419,9 +2419,12 @@ int sctp_process_init(struct sctp_association *asoc, struct sctp_chunk *chunk,
> > > /* Copy cookie in case we need to resend COOKIE-ECHO. */
> > > cookie = asoc->peer.cookie;
> > > if (cookie) {
> > > + if (asoc->peer.cookie_allocated)
> > > + kfree(cookie);
> > > asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(cookie, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
> > > if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
> > > goto clean_up;
> > > + asoc->peer.cookie_allocated=1;
> > > }
> > >
> > > /* RFC 2960 7.2.1 The initial value of ssthresh MAY be arbitrarily
> >
> > What if we kmemdup directly at sctp_process_param(), as it's done for
> > others already? Like SCTP_PARAM_RANDOM and SCTP_PARAM_HMAC_ALGO. I
> > don't see a reason for SCTP_PARAM_STATE_COOKIE to be different
> > here. This way it would be always allocated, and ready to be kfreed.
> >
> > We still need to free it after the handshake, btw.
> >
> > Marcelo
> >
>
> Still untested, but something like this?
>

Yes, just..

>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c
> index d2c7d0d2abc1..718b9917844e 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/associola.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c
> @@ -393,6 +393,7 @@ void sctp_association_free(struct sctp_association *asoc)
> kfree(asoc->peer.peer_random);
> kfree(asoc->peer.peer_chunks);
> kfree(asoc->peer.peer_hmacs);
> + kfree(asoc->peer.cookie);

this chunk is not needed because it is freed right above the first
kfree() in the context here.

>
> /* Release the transport structures. */
> list_for_each_safe(pos, temp, &asoc->peer.transport_addr_list) {
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> index 72e74503f9fc..ff365f22a3c1 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
> @@ -2431,14 +2431,6 @@ int sctp_process_init(struct sctp_association *asoc, struct sctp_chunk *chunk,
> /* Peer Rwnd : Current calculated value of the peer's rwnd. */
> asoc->peer.rwnd = asoc->peer.i.a_rwnd;
>
> - /* Copy cookie in case we need to resend COOKIE-ECHO. */
> - cookie = asoc->peer.cookie;
> - if (cookie) {
> - asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(cookie, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
> - if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
> - goto clean_up;
> - }
> -
> /* RFC 2960 7.2.1 The initial value of ssthresh MAY be arbitrarily
> * high (for example, implementations MAY use the size of the receiver
> * advertised window).
> @@ -2607,7 +2599,9 @@ static int sctp_process_param(struct sctp_association *asoc,
> case SCTP_PARAM_STATE_COOKIE:
> asoc->peer.cookie_len =
> ntohs(param.p->length) - sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr);
> - asoc->peer.cookie = param.cookie->body;
> + asoc->peer.cookie = kmemdup(param.cookie->body, asoc->peer.cookie_len, gfp);
> + if (!asoc->peer.cookie)
> + retval = 0;
> break;
>
> case SCTP_PARAM_HEARTBEAT_INFO:

Plus:

--- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
@@ -898,6 +898,11 @@ static void sctp_cmd_new_state(struct sctp_cmd_seq *cmds,
asoc->rto_initial;
}

+ if (sctp_state(asoc, ESTABLISHED)) {
+ kfree(asoc->peer.cookie);
+ asoc->peer.cookie = NULL;
+ }
+
if (sctp_state(asoc, ESTABLISHED) ||
sctp_state(asoc, CLOSED) ||
sctp_state(asoc, SHUTDOWN_RECEIVED)) {

Also untested, just sharing the idea.

Marcelo