The cause of the resultant dump_stack() reported below is a dereference of a freed pointer to 'struct sctp_endpoint' in sctp_sock_dump(). This race condition occurs when a transport is cached into its associated hash table then freed prior to its subsequent use in sctp_diag_dump() which uses sctp_for_each_transport() to walk the (now out of date) hash table calling into sctp_sock_dump() where the dereference occurs. To prevent this from happening we need to take a reference on the to-be-used/dereferenced 'struct sctp_endpoint' until such a time when we know it can be safely released. When KASAN is not enabled, a similar, but slightly different NULL pointer derefernce crash occurs later along the thread of execution in inet_sctp_diag_fill() this time. BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag] Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2dc show_stack+0x20/0x2c dump_stack+0x120/0x144 print_address_description+0x80/0x2f4 __kasan_report+0x174/0x194 kasan_report+0x10/0x18 __asan_load8+0x84/0x8c sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag] sctp_for_each_transport+0x1e0/0x26c [sctp] sctp_diag_dump+0x180/0x1f0 [sctp_diag] inet_diag_dump+0x12c/0x168 netlink_dump+0x24c/0x5b8 __netlink_dump_start+0x274/0x2a8 inet_diag_handler_cmd+0x224/0x274 sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x230 netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x1bc sock_diag_rcv+0x34/0x48 netlink_unicast+0x3b4/0x430 netlink_sendmsg+0x4f0/0x574 sock_write_iter+0x18c/0x1f0 do_iter_readv_writev+0x230/0x2a8 do_iter_write+0xc8/0x2b4 vfs_writev+0xf8/0x184 do_writev+0xb0/0x1a8 __arm64_sys_writev+0x4c/0x5c el0_svc_common+0x118/0x250 el0_svc_handler+0x3c/0x9c el0_svc+0x8/0xc Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: lksctp developers <linux-sctp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@xxxxxxx> Cc: Karl Knutson <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jon Grimm <jgrimm@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xingang Guo <xingang.guo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hui Huang <hui.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daisy Chang <daisyc@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ryan Layer <rmlayer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kevin Gao <kevin.gao@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-sctp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/associola.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/associola.c b/net/sctp/associola.c index be29da09cc7ab..df171a297d095 100644 --- a/net/sctp/associola.c +++ b/net/sctp/associola.c @@ -499,8 +499,9 @@ void sctp_assoc_rm_peer(struct sctp_association *asoc, /* Remove this peer from the list. */ list_del_rcu(&peer->transports); - /* Remove this peer from the transport hashtable */ + /* Remove this peer from the transport hashtable and remove its reference */ sctp_unhash_transport(peer); + sctp_endpoint_put(asoc->ep); /* Get the first transport of asoc. */ pos = asoc->peer.transport_addr_list.next; @@ -710,11 +711,12 @@ struct sctp_transport *sctp_assoc_add_peer(struct sctp_association *asoc, /* Set the peer's active state. */ peer->state = peer_state; - /* Add this peer into the transport hashtable */ + /* Add this peer into the transport hashtable and take a reference */ if (sctp_hash_transport(peer)) { sctp_transport_free(peer); return NULL; } + sctp_endpoint_hold(asoc->ep); sctp_transport_pl_reset(peer); -- 2.34.1.400.ga245620fadb-goog