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Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro f1a69a940d sctp: detect and prevent references to a freed transport in sendmsg
sctp_sendmsg() re-uses associations and transports when possible by
doing a lookup based on the socket endpoint and the message destination
address, and then sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() sets the selected transport in
all the message chunks to be sent.

There's a possible race condition if another thread triggers the removal
of that selected transport, for instance, by explicitly unbinding an
address with setsockopt(SCTP_SOCKOPT_BINDX_REM), after the chunks have
been set up and before the message is sent. This can happen if the send
buffer is full, during the period when the sender thread temporarily
releases the socket lock in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf().

This causes the access to the transport data in
sctp_outq_select_transport(), when the association outqueue is flushed,
to result in a use-after-free read.

This change avoids this scenario by having sctp_transport_free() signal
the freeing of the transport, tagging it as "dead". In order to do this,
the patch restores the "dead" bit in struct sctp_transport, which was
removed in
commit 47faa1e4c5 ("sctp: remove the dead field of sctp_transport").

Then, in the scenario where the sender thread has released the socket
lock in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf(), the bit is checked again after
re-acquiring the socket lock to detect the deletion. This is done while
holding a reference to the transport to prevent it from being freed in
the process.

If the transport was deleted while the socket lock was relinquished,
sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc() will return -EAGAIN to let userspace retry the
send.

The bug was found by a private syzbot instance (see the error report [1]
and the C reproducer that triggers it [2]).

Link: https://people.igalia.com/rcn/kernel_logs/20250402__KASAN_slab-use-after-free_Read_in_sctp_outq_select_transport.txt [1]
Link: https://people.igalia.com/rcn/kernel_logs/20250402__KASAN_slab-use-after-free_Read_in_sctp_outq_select_transport__repro.c [2]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: df132eff46 ("sctp: clear the transport of some out_chunk_list chunks in sctp_assoc_rm_peer")
Suggested-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro <rcn@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250404-kasan_slab-use-after-free_read_in_sctp_outq_select_transport__20250404-v1-1-5ce4a0b78ef2@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2025-04-08 11:34:06 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.