Re: KASAN, xt_TCPMSS finally found nasty use-after-free bug? 4.10.8

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Sun Apr 02 2017 - 07:54:56 EST


On Sun, 2017-04-02 at 13:45 +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > - for (i = sizeof(struct tcphdr); i <= tcp_hdrlen - TCPOLEN_MSS; i += optlen(opt, i)) {
> > + for (i = sizeof(struct tcphdr); i < tcp_hdrlen - TCPOLEN_MSS; i += optlen(opt, i)) {
> > if (opt[i] == TCPOPT_MSS && opt[i+1] == TCPOLEN_MSS) {
> > u_int16_t oldmss;
>
> maybe I am low on caffeeine but this looks fine, for tcp header with
> only tcpmss this boils down to "20 <= 24 - 4" so we acccess offsets 20-23 which seems ok.

I am definitely low on caffeine ;)

An issue in this function is that we might add the missing MSS option,
without checking that TCP options are already full.

But this should not cause a KASAN splat, only some malformed TCP packet

(tcph->doff would wrap)