Re: net/smc: Buggy reordering scenario in smc socket

From: Yewon Choi
Date: Mon Apr 15 2024 - 07:17:11 EST


On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:02 PM Yewon Choi <woni9911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> we suspect some buggy scenario due to memory reordering in concurrent
> execution
> of setsockopt() and sendmmsg().
>
> (CPU 1) setsockopt():
> case TCP_FASTOPEN_NO_COOKIE:
> ...
> smc_switch_to_fallback():
> clcsock->file = sk.sk_socket->file; // (1)
> clcsock->file->private_data = clcsock; // (2)
>
> (CPU 2) __sys_sendmmsg():
> sockfd_lookup_light():
> sock_from_file():
> sock = file->private_data; // (3)
> ...
> fput_light(sock->file, fput_needed): // (4)
> fput():
> refcount_dec_and_test(sock->file->f_count) // null-ptr-deref
>
> There is no memory barrier between (1) and (2), so (1) might be reordered
> after
> (2) is written to memory. Then, execution order can be (2)->(3)->(4)->(1)
> and (4) will read uninitialized value which may cause system crash.
>
>
> This kind of reordering may happen in smc_ulp_init():
>
> (CPU 1) smc_ulp_init():
> ...
> smcsock->file = tcp->file; // (5)
> smcsock->file->private_data = smcsock; // (6)
>
> Execution order can be (6)->(3)->(4)->(5), showing same symptom as above.
>
>
> One possible solution seems to be adding release semantic in (2) and (6).
>
> diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c
> index 4b52b3b159c0..37c23ef3e2d5 100644
> --- a/net/smc/af_smc.c
> +++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c
> @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ static int smc_switch_to_fallback(struct smc_sock
> *smc, int reason_code)
> trace_smc_switch_to_fallback(smc, reason_code);
> if (smc->sk.sk_socket && smc->sk.sk_socket->file) {
> smc->clcsock->file = smc->sk.sk_socket->file;
> - smc->clcsock->file->private_data = smc->clcsock;
> + smp_store_release(&smc->clcsock->file->private_data,
> smc->clcsock);
> smc->clcsock->wq.fasync_list =
> smc->sk.sk_socket->wq.fasync_list;
> smc->sk.sk_socket->wq.fasync_list = NULL;
> @@ -3410,7 +3410,7 @@ static int smc_ulp_init(struct sock *sk)
>
> /* replace tcp socket to smc */
> smcsock->file = tcp->file;
> - smcsock->file->private_data = smcsock;
> + smp_store_release(&smcsock->file->private_data, smcsock);
> smcsock->file->f_inode = SOCK_INODE(smcsock); /* replace inode
> when sock_close */
> smcsock->file->f_path.dentry->d_inode = SOCK_INODE(smcsock); /*
> dput() in __fput */
> tcp->file = NULL;
>
> I think we don't need memory barrier between (3) and (4) because there are
> critical section between (3) and (4), so lock(lock_sock/release_sock) will
> do this.
>
>
> Could you check these? If confirmed to be a bug, we will send a patch.
>
> Best Regards,
> Yewon Choi
>

Additionally, we found that below line (1) in smc_ulp_init() triggers
kernel panic even when normaly executed.

smc_ulp_init():
...
tcp->file = NULL; // (1)

It can be triggered by simple system calls:
int sk = socket(0xa, 0x1, 0)
setsockopt(sk, 0x6, 0x1f, "smc", sizeof("smc"))

[350998.391059] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018
[350998.391980] Mem abort info:
[350998.392288] ESR = 0x0000000096000006
[350998.392691] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[350998.393252] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[350998.393586] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[350998.396496] FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
[350998.399755] Data abort info:
[350998.400720] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[350998.402329] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[350998.404023] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[350998.405543] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000047e44000
[350998.406735] [0000000000000018] pgd=080000004b288003, p4d=080000004b288003, pud=080000004aea9003, pmd=0000000000000000
[350998.409243] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[350998.409996] Modules linked in:
[350998.410404] CPU: 1 PID: 2936860 Comm: tls Not tainted 6.8.0-rc5-00163-gffd2cb6b718e-dirty #45
[350998.411462] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
[350998.412050] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[350998.412923] pc : fput+0x20/0x188
[350998.413349] lr : __sys_setsockopt+0xb4/0xc0
[350998.413889] sp : ffff800080443d90
[350998.414325] x29: ffff800080443d90 x28: ffff0000051cc740 x27: 0000000000000000
[350998.415218] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
[350998.416112] x23: 0000000000000004 x22: 00000000004613c8 x21: 000000000000001f
[350998.417007] x20: 0000000000000006 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000001
[350998.417909] x17: ffffc369333ee3cc x16: ffffc36933410ad8 x15: ffffc369335203a8
[350998.418797] x14: ffffc36933520188 x13: ffffc36932426dc0 x12: ffffc36932426cf4
[350998.419621] x11: ffffc36932426bec x10: ffffc36933522a34 x9 : 0000000fffffffe0
[350998.420447] x8 : ffffc3693351ef8c x7 : ffff00000a790578 x6 : ffff00000a790558
[350998.421273] x5 : ffff00000a790420 x4 : ffff0000051cc740 x3 : 0000000000000001
[350998.422105] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000018 x0 : ffffffffffffffff
[350998.422932] Call trace:
[350998.423231] fput+0x20/0x188
[350998.423583] __sys_setsockopt+0xb4/0xc0
[350998.424041] __arm64_sys_setsockopt+0x28/0x38
[350998.424557] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
[350998.425006] el0_svc_common+0x3c/0xe8
[350998.425444] do_el0_svc+0x20/0x2c
[350998.425844] el0_svc+0x34/0xb8
[350998.426235] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158
[350998.426749] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[350998.427187] Code: aa0003f3 d503201f 92800000 91006261 (f8e00020)
[350998.427893] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[350998.428460] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
[350998.429126] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[350998.429617] Kernel Offset: 0x4368b2400000 from 0xffff800080000000
[350998.430335] PHYS_OFFSET: 0x40000000
[350998.430752] CPU features: 0x0,00000021,7002014a,2140720b
[350998.431371] Memory Limit: none
[350998.431741] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception ]---

Could you check this, too?

Yewon Choi