Re: [PATCH] vhost_net: fix OoB on sendmsg() failure.

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On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:42 PM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the sendmsg() call in vhost_tx_batch() fails, both the 'batched_xdp'
> and 'done_idx' indexes are left unchanged. If such failure happens
> when batched_xdp == VHOST_NET_BATCH, the next call to
> vhost_net_build_xdp() will access and write memory outside the xdp
> buffers area.
>
> Since sendmsg() can only error with EBADFD, this change addresses the
> issue explicitly freeing the XDP buffers batch on error.
>
> Fixes: 0a0be13b8fe2 ("vhost_net: batch submitting XDP buffers to underlayer sockets")
> Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Note: my understanding is that this should go through MST's tree, please
> educate me otherwise, thanks!
> ---

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

>  drivers/vhost/net.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> index 3a249ee7e144..28ef323882fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
> @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void vhost_tx_batch(struct vhost_net *net,
>                 .num = nvq->batched_xdp,
>                 .ptr = nvq->xdp,
>         };
> -       int err;
> +       int i, err;
>
>         if (nvq->batched_xdp == 0)
>                 goto signal_used;
> @@ -476,6 +476,15 @@ static void vhost_tx_batch(struct vhost_net *net,
>         err = sock->ops->sendmsg(sock, msghdr, 0);
>         if (unlikely(err < 0)) {
>                 vq_err(&nvq->vq, "Fail to batch sending packets\n");
> +
> +               /* free pages owned by XDP; since this is an unlikely error path,
> +                * keep it simple and avoid more complex bulk update for the
> +                * used pages
> +                */
> +               for (i = 0; i < nvq->batched_xdp; ++i)
> +                       put_page(virt_to_head_page(nvq->xdp[i].data));
> +               nvq->batched_xdp = 0;
> +               nvq->done_idx = 0;
>                 return;
>         }
>
> --
> 2.26.3
>




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