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RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket.
authorQuentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:22:27 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
committerMukesh Kacker <mukesh.kacker@oracle.com>
Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:04:58 +0000 (09:04 -0700)
commit9289c7231209bcd3b9e0b161574eb73f77c510c8
tree3184d0d1063e27b3b3cbae8c510804d4b62eab77
parent0dd82c66e50dbda233e5ea9936efab433e605b7d
RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket.

Sasha's found a NULL pointer dereference in the RDS connection code when
sending a message to an apparently unbound socket.  The problem is caused
by the code checking if the socket is bound in rds_sendmsg(), which checks
the rs_bound_addr field without taking a lock on the socket.  This opens a
race where rs_bound_addr is temporarily set but where the transport is not
in rds_bind(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference when trying to
dereference 'trans' in __rds_conn_create().

Vegard wrote a reproducer for this issue, so kindly ask him to share if
you're interested.

I cannot reproduce the NULL pointer dereference using Vegard's reproducer
with this patch, whereas I could without.

Complete earlier incomplete fix to CVE-2015-6937:

  74e98eb08588 ("RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection")

Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Chien Yen <chien.yen@oracle.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
net/rds/connection.c
net/rds/send.c