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authorQuentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>2015-11-24 17:13:21 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-11-24 17:20:09 -0500
commit8c7188b23474cca017b3ef354c4a58456f68303a (patch)
treeccc6f99c22d92ce0ec5c91076ee7acaf2fab01ff /net/rds/connection.c
parent20f795666d3accbb75969730019aeb03f50ef0ec (diff)
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") Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/rds/connection.c')
-rw-r--r--net/rds/connection.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index d4564036a339..e3b118cae81d 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -186,12 +186,6 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
}
}
- if (trans == NULL) {
- kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
- conn = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
- goto out;
- }
-
conn->c_trans = trans;
ret = trans->conn_alloc(conn, gfp);