Re: [syzbot] [wireguard?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in enqueue_timer

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 12:05:18 EST


On Tue, 23 May 2023 17:46:20 +0200 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Freed by task 41:
> > __kmem_cache_free+0x264/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:3799
> > device_release+0x95/0x1c0
> > kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:683 [inline]
> > kobject_release lib/kobject.c:714 [inline]
> > kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
> > kobject_put+0x228/0x470 lib/kobject.c:731
> > netdev_run_todo+0xe5a/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:10400
>
> So that means the memory in question is actually the one that's
> allocated and freed by the networking stack. Specifically, dev.c:10626
> is allocating a struct net_device with a trailing struct wg_device (its
> priv_data). However, wg_device does not have any struct timer_lists in
> it, and I don't see how net_device's watchdog_timer would be related to
> the stacktrace which is clearly operating over a wg_peer timer.
>
> So what on earth is going on here?

Your timer had the pleasure of getting queued _after_ a dead watchdog
timer, no? IOW it tries to update the ->next pointer of a queued
watchdog timer. We should probably do:

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 374d38fb8b9d..f3ed20ebcf5a 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -10389,6 +10389,8 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
WARN_ON(rcu_access_pointer(dev->ip_ptr));
WARN_ON(rcu_access_pointer(dev->ip6_ptr));

+ WARN_ON(timer_shutdown_sync(&dev->watchdog_timer));
+
if (dev->priv_destructor)
dev->priv_destructor(dev);
if (dev->needs_free_netdev)

to catch how that watchdog_timer is getting queued. Would that make
sense, Eric?