Re: [PATCH] net/rxrpc: Fix a use after free in rxrpc_input_packet

[David Howells]

Lv Yunlong <lyl2019@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the case RXRPC_PACKET_TYPE_DATA of rxrpc_input_packet, if
> skb_unshare(skb,..) failed, it will free the skb and return NULL.
> But if skb_unshare() return NULL, the freed skb will be used by
> rxrpc_eaten_skb(skb,..).

That's not precisely the case:

	void rxrpc_eaten_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, enum rxrpc_skb_trace op)
	{
		const void *here = __builtin_return_address(0);
		int n = atomic_inc_return(&rxrpc_n_rx_skbs);
		trace_rxrpc_skb(skb, op, 0, n, 0, here);
	}

The only thing that happens to skb here is that it's passed to
trace_rxrpc_skb(), but that doesn't dereference it either.  The *address* is
used for display purposes, but that's all.

> I see that rxrpc_eaten_skb() is used to drop a ref of skb.

It isn't.

> As the skb is already freed in skb_unshare() on error, my patch removes the
> rxrpc_eaten_skb() to avoid the uaf.

But you remove the accounting, which might lead to an assertion failure in
af_rxrpc_exit().

That said, rxrpc_eaten_skb() should probably decrement rxrpc_n_rx_skbs, not
increment it...

David