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authorDean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>2017-03-10 11:34:46 +0000
committerMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>2017-04-12 22:02:37 +0200
commit27bfbc21a0c0f711fa5382de026c7c0700c9ea28 (patch)
tree552796ea026c0c444b6b9ba8679e2d0c09f00e2a /net/bluetooth
parente163376220169170f3945703a600083f1792aaf8 (diff)
Bluetooth: Avoid bt_accept_unlink() double unlinking
There is a race condition between a thread calling bt_accept_dequeue() and a different thread calling bt_accept_unlink(). Protection against concurrency is implemented using sk locking. However, sk locking causes serialisation of the bt_accept_dequeue() and bt_accept_unlink() threads. This serialisation can cause bt_accept_dequeue() to obtain the sk from the parent list but becomes blocked waiting for the sk lock held by the bt_accept_unlink() thread. bt_accept_unlink() unlinks sk and this thread releases the sk lock unblocking bt_accept_dequeue() which potentially runs bt_accept_unlink() again on the same sk causing a crash. The attempt to double unlink the same sk from the parent list can cause a NULL pointer dereference crash due to bt_sk(sk)->parent becoming NULL on the first unlink, followed by the second unlink trying to execute bt_sk(sk)->parent->sk_ack_backlog-- in bt_accept_unlink() which crashes. When sk is in the parent list, bt_sk(sk)->parent will be not be NULL. When sk is removed from the parent list, bt_sk(sk)->parent is set to NULL. Therefore, add a defensive check for bt_sk(sk)->parent not being NULL to ensure that sk is still in the parent list after the sk lock has been taken in bt_accept_dequeue(). If bt_sk(sk)->parent is detected as being NULL then restart the loop so that the loop variables are refreshed to use the latest values. This is necessary as list_for_each_entry_safe() is not thread safe so causing a risk of an infinite loop occurring as sk could point to itself. In addition, in bt_accept_dequeue() increase the sk reference count to protect against early freeing of sk. Early freeing can be possible if the bt_accept_unlink() thread calls l2cap_sock_kill() or rfcomm_sock_kill() functions before bt_accept_dequeue() gets the sk lock. For test purposes, the probability of failure can be increased by putting a msleep of 1 second in bt_accept_dequeue() between getting the sk and waiting for the sk lock. This exposes the fact that the loop list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &bt_sk(parent)->accept_q) is not safe from threads that unlink sk from the list in parallel with the loop which can cause sk to become stale within the loop. Signed-off-by: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bluetooth')
-rw-r--r--net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c b/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
index a374fd27b5e1..42d0997e2fbb 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ void bt_accept_enqueue(struct sock *parent, struct sock *sk)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bt_accept_enqueue);
+/* Calling function must hold the sk lock.
+ * bt_sk(sk)->parent must be non-NULL meaning sk is in the parent list.
+ */
void bt_accept_unlink(struct sock *sk)
{
BT_DBG("sk %p state %d", sk, sk->sk_state);
@@ -185,11 +188,32 @@ struct sock *bt_accept_dequeue(struct sock *parent, struct socket *newsock)
BT_DBG("parent %p", parent);
+restart:
list_for_each_entry_safe(s, n, &bt_sk(parent)->accept_q, accept_q) {
sk = (struct sock *)s;
+ /* Prevent early freeing of sk due to unlink and sock_kill */
+ sock_hold(sk);
lock_sock(sk);
+ /* Check sk has not already been unlinked via
+ * bt_accept_unlink() due to serialisation caused by sk locking
+ */
+ if (!bt_sk(sk)->parent) {
+ BT_DBG("sk %p, already unlinked", sk);
+ release_sock(sk);
+ sock_put(sk);
+
+ /* Restart the loop as sk is no longer in the list
+ * and also avoid a potential infinite loop because
+ * list_for_each_entry_safe() is not thread safe.
+ */
+ goto restart;
+ }
+
+ /* sk is safely in the parent list so reduce reference count */
+ sock_put(sk);
+
/* FIXME: Is this check still needed */
if (sk->sk_state == BT_CLOSED) {
bt_accept_unlink(sk);