Re: [PATCH net v2] net: fix use-after-free when UDP GRO with shared fraglist

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Thu Jan 07 2021 - 07:50:44 EST


On 1/7/21 12:40 PM, Dongseok Yi wrote:
On 2021-01-07 20:05, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
On 1/7/21 1:39 AM, Dongseok Yi wrote:
skbs in fraglist could be shared by a BPF filter loaded at TC. It
triggers skb_ensure_writable -> pskb_expand_head ->
skb_clone_fraglist -> skb_get on each skb in the fraglist.

While tcpdump, sk_receive_queue of PF_PACKET has the original fraglist.
But the same fraglist is queued to PF_INET (or PF_INET6) as the fraglist
chain made by skb_segment_list.

If the new skb (not fraglist) is queued to one of the sk_receive_queue,
multiple ptypes can see this. The skb could be released by ptypes and
it causes use-after-free.

[ 4443.426215] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 4443.426222] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
[ 4443.426291] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 28161 at lib/refcount.c:190
refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa4/0xc8
[ 4443.426726] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO)
[ 4443.426732] pc : refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa4/0xc8
[ 4443.426737] lr : refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa0/0xc8
[ 4443.426808] Call trace:
[ 4443.426813] refcount_dec_and_test_checked+0xa4/0xc8
[ 4443.426823] skb_release_data+0x144/0x264
[ 4443.426828] kfree_skb+0x58/0xc4
[ 4443.426832] skb_queue_purge+0x64/0x9c
[ 4443.426844] packet_set_ring+0x5f0/0x820
[ 4443.426849] packet_setsockopt+0x5a4/0xcd0
[ 4443.426853] __sys_setsockopt+0x188/0x278
[ 4443.426858] __arm64_sys_setsockopt+0x28/0x38
[ 4443.426869] el0_svc_common+0xf0/0x1d0
[ 4443.426873] el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x98
[ 4443.426880] el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Fixes: 3a1296a38d0c (net: Support GRO/GSO fraglist chaining.)
Signed-off-by: Dongseok Yi <dseok.yi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/skbuff.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

v2: Expand the commit message to clarify a BPF filter loaded

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index f62cae3..1dcbda8 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -3655,7 +3655,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment_list(struct sk_buff *skb,
unsigned int delta_truesize = 0;
unsigned int delta_len = 0;
struct sk_buff *tail = NULL;
- struct sk_buff *nskb;
+ struct sk_buff *nskb, *tmp;
+ int err;

skb_push(skb, -skb_network_offset(skb) + offset);

@@ -3665,11 +3666,28 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment_list(struct sk_buff *skb,
nskb = list_skb;
list_skb = list_skb->next;

+ err = 0;
+ if (skb_shared(nskb)) {
+ tmp = skb_clone(nskb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (tmp) {
+ kfree_skb(nskb);

Should use consume_skb() to not trigger skb:kfree_skb tracepoint when looking
for drops in the stack.

I will use to consume_skb() on the next version.

+ nskb = tmp;
+ err = skb_unclone(nskb, GFP_ATOMIC);

Could you elaborate why you also need to unclone? This looks odd here. tc layer
(independent of BPF) from ingress & egress side generally assumes unshared skb,
so above clone + dropping ref of nskb looks okay to make the main skb struct private
for mangling attributes (e.g. mark) & should suffice. What is the exact purpose of
the additional skb_unclone() in this context?

Willem de Bruijn said:
udp_rcv_segment later converts the udp-gro-list skb to a list of
regular packets to pass these one-by-one to udp_queue_rcv_one_skb.
Now all the frags are fully fledged packets, with headers pushed
before the payload.

Yes.

PF_PACKET handles untouched fraglist. To modify the payload only
for udp_rcv_segment, skb_unclone is necessary.

I don't parse this last sentence here, please elaborate in more detail on why
it is necessary.

For example, if tc layer would modify mark on the skb, then __copy_skb_header()
in skb_segment_list() will propagate it. If tc layer would modify payload, the
skb_ensure_writable() will take care of that internally and if needed pull in
parts from fraglist into linear section to make it private. The purpose of the
skb_clone() above iff shared is to make the struct itself private (to safely
modify its struct members). What am I missing?

+ } else {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ }
+
if (!tail)
skb->next = nskb;
else
tail->next = nskb;

+ if (unlikely(err)) {
+ nskb->next = list_skb;
+ goto err_linearize;
+ }
+
tail = nskb;

delta_len += nskb->len;