Re: NULL pointer dereference in selinux_ip_postroute_compat

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 15:38:20 EST


On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:26 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:14:42 PM John Stultz wrote:
> > So I bisected this down and it seems to be the following commit:
> >
> > commit be9f4a44e7d41cee50ddb5f038fc2391cbbb4046
> > Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Jul 19 07:34:03 2012 +0000
> >
> > ipv4: tcp: remove per net tcp_sock
> >
> >
> > It doesn't revert totally cleanly, but after fixing up the rejections
> > and booting with this patch removed on top of Linus' head the oops on
> > shutdown goes away.
>
> Thanks!
>
> It looks the like there is a bug in ip_send_unicast_reply() which uses a
> inet_sock/sock struct which does not have the LSM data properly initialized.
>
> I'll put together a patch shortly.
>

Something like this ?

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index ba39a52..027a331 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1524,6 +1524,10 @@ void ip_send_unicast_reply(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr,
sk->sk_priority = skb->priority;
sk->sk_protocol = ip_hdr(skb)->protocol;
sk->sk_bound_dev_if = arg->bound_dev_if;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
+ if (!sk->sk_security && security_sk_alloc(sk, PF_INET, GFP_ATOMIC))
+ goto out;
+#endif
sock_net_set(sk, net);
__skb_queue_head_init(&sk->sk_write_queue);
sk->sk_sndbuf = sysctl_wmem_default;
@@ -1539,7 +1543,7 @@ void ip_send_unicast_reply(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr,
skb_set_queue_mapping(nskb, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
ip_push_pending_frames(sk, &fl4);
}
-
+out:
put_cpu_var(unicast_sock);

ip_rt_put(rt);


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