[PATCH] tcp: fix use-after-free of retransmit_skb_hint in tcp_send_synack()

[Yilin Zhang]

When tcp_send_synack() replaces the cloned SYN skb at the head of the
retransmit queue with a copy, it frees the original with
tcp_rtx_queue_unlink_and_free() and only repairs tp->highest_sack.
tp->retransmit_skb_hint keeps pointing at the freed
skbuff_fclone_cache object.

The dangling hint is read in tcp_verify_retransmit_hint() and used as
the root of the rbtree walk in tcp_xmit_retransmit_queue().  An
unprivileged TFO client (sendmsg(MSG_FASTOPEN)) can arm the hint with
an attacker-supplied ICMP fragmentation-needed message, after which a
simultaneous open frees the armed SYN skb:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)
  Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800604d928 by task swapper/1/0
  Call Trace:
   tcp_mark_skb_lost (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:1316)
   tcp_simple_retransmit (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3158)
   tcp_v4_err (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:587)

Sync the hint to the copy.

Fixes: 75c119afe14f ("tcp: implement rb-tree based retransmit queue")
Reported-by: Kimi Security Team <bug-report@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Weiming Shi <shiweiming@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yilin Zhang <yilinzhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index 3b320ee77..498c9819a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -3694,6 +3694,7 @@ void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *sk, gfp_t priority,
 int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 
 	skb = tcp_rtx_queue_head(sk);
 	if (!skb || !(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_flags & TCPHDR_SYN)) {
@@ -3710,6 +3711,8 @@ int tcp_send_synack(struct sock *sk)
 			if (!nskb)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nskb->tcp_tsorted_anchor);
+			if (skb == tp->retransmit_skb_hint)
+				tp->retransmit_skb_hint = nskb;
 			tcp_highest_sack_replace(sk, skb, nskb);
 			tcp_rtx_queue_unlink_and_free(skb, sk);
-- 
2.43.0