On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 4:41 PM Bragatheswaran Manickavel
<bragathemanick0908@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ccid_hc_tx_send_packet might be called with a NULL ccid pointer
> leading to a NULL pointer dereference
>
> Below mentioned commit has similarly changes
> commit 276bdb82dedb ("dccp: check ccid before dereferencing")
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+c71bc336c5061153b502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c71bc336c5061153b502
> Signed-off-by: Bragatheswaran Manickavel <bragathemanick0908@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/dccp/ccid.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/dccp/ccid.h b/net/dccp/ccid.h
> index 105f3734dadb..1015dc2b9392 100644
> --- a/net/dccp/ccid.h
> +++ b/net/dccp/ccid.h
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static inline int ccid_packet_dequeue_eval(const int return_code)
> static inline int ccid_hc_tx_send_packet(struct ccid *ccid, struct sock *sk,
> struct sk_buff *skb)
> {
> - if (ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_tx_send_packet != NULL)
> + if (ccid != NULL && ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_tx_send_packet != NULL)
> return ccid->ccid_ops->ccid_hc_tx_send_packet(sk, skb);
> return CCID_PACKET_SEND_AT_ONCE;
> }
> --
> 2.34.1
>
If you are willing to fix dccp, I would make sure that some of
lockless accesses to dccps_hc_tx_ccid
are also double checked and fixed.
do_dccp_getsockopt() and dccp_get_info()
