Re: net: use-after-free in neigh_timer_handler/sock_wfree

[Cong Wang]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> But I doubt skb_orphan() is the solution here, shouldn't we just
>> update sk->sk_wmem_alloc with skb->truesize changes?
>
> Is it worth it ? Apart from syszkaller I mean...
>
> We started with something that had a real impact on real workloads.
>
> 158f323b9868b59967ad96957c4ca388161be321 net: adjust skb->truesize in
> pskb_expand_head()
>
> Note that auditing the stack took me a while.

I don't know how sk refcnt could work correctly without making
sk_wmem_alloc correctly. We certainly could just call skb_orphan()
is we don't need skb->sk any more, probably like the frag case,
but for this case, the neigh one, the skb's sitting in neigh->arp_queue
are not going to be freed unless in failed case, therefore skb->sk
should not be orphaned so early.