Re: [PATCH] unix: fix use-after-free with unix_dgram_poll()

From: Rainer Weikusat
Date: Fri Oct 02 2015 - 15:50:39 EST


Rainer Weikusat <rw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> From: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The unix_dgram_poll() routine calls sock_poll_wait() not only for the wait
>> queue associated with the socket s that we've called poll() on, but it also
>> calls sock_poll_wait() for a remote peer socket's wait queue, if it's connected.
>> Thus, if we call poll()/select()/epoll() for the socket s, there are then
>> a couple of code paths in which the remote peer socket s2 and its associated
>> peer_wait queue can be freed before poll()/select()/epoll() have a chance
>> to remove themselves from this remote peer socket s2's wait queue.
>
> [...]
>
>> This works because we will continue to get POLLOUT wakeups from
>> unix_write_space(), which is called via sock_wfree().
>
> As pointed out in my original comment, this doesn't work (as far as I
> can/ could tell) because it will only wake up sockets which had a chance
> to enqueue datagrams to the queue of the receiving socket as only
> skbuffs enqueued there will be consumed. A socket which is really
> waiting for space in the receiving queue won't ever be woken up in this
> way.

Program which shows that (on 3.2.54 + "local modification", with the 2nd
sock_poll_wait commented out):

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#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/un.h>
#include <sys/poll.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void)
{
struct sockaddr_un sun;
struct pollfd pfd;
int tg, sk0, sk1, rc;
char buf[16];

sun.sun_family = AF_UNIX;

tg = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
strncpy(sun.sun_path, "/tmp/tg", sizeof(sun.sun_path));
unlink(sun.sun_path);
bind(tg, (struct sockaddr *)&sun, sizeof(sun));

sk0 = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
connect(sk0, (struct sockaddr *)&sun, sizeof(sun));

sk1 = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
connect(sk1, (struct sockaddr *)&sun, sizeof(sun));

fcntl(sk0, F_SETFL, fcntl(sk0, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK);
fcntl(sk1, F_SETFL, fcntl(sk1, F_GETFL) | O_NONBLOCK);

while (write(sk0, "bla", 3) != -1);

if (fork() == 0) {
pfd.fd = sk1;
pfd.events = POLLOUT;
rc = poll(&pfd, 1, -1);

_exit(0);
}

sleep(3);
read(tg, buf, sizeof(buf));
wait(&rc);

return 0;
}
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For me, this blocks forever while it should terminate as soon as the
datagram was read. Something else may have changed this behaviour in the
meantime, though.
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