Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix error handling on stream scheduler initialization

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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:48:10 -0300

> It allocates the extended area for outbound streams only on sendmsg
> calls, if they are not yet allocated.  When using the priority
> stream scheduler, this initialization may imply into a subsequent
> allocation, which may fail.  In this case, it was aborting the stream
> scheduler initialization but leaving the ->ext pointer (allocated) in
> there, thus in a partially initialized state.  On a subsequent call to
> sendmsg, it would notice the ->ext pointer in there, and trip on
> uninitialized stuff when trying to schedule the data chunk.
> 
> The fix is undo the ->ext initialization if the stream scheduler
> initialization fails and avoid the partially initialized state.
> 
> Although syzkaller bisected this to commit 4ff40b86262b ("sctp: set
> chunk transport correctly when it's a new asoc"), this bug was actually
> introduced on the commit I marked below.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+c1a380d42b190ad1e559@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 5bbbbe32a431 ("sctp: introduce stream scheduler foundations")
> Tested-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.



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