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Re: use-after free bug in hacked 4.16 kernel, related to fq_flow_dequeue

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On 08/02/2018 01:20 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 08/02/2018 12:45 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

This is from my hacked kernel, could be my fault. I thought the fq
guys might want to know however...

Hmm, nothing obvious comes to mind; fq_flow_dequeue() just dequeues a
packet from the queue; it only has two memory derefs, to fq->lock and
flow->queue. Don't see why either of those should be freed at this
point.

Unless fq_adjust_removal() is being inlined, perhaps? Then I suppose the
flow->tin reference could be the problem, if the txq_info struct was
already freed; did you change anything around the handling of TXQs?

I have worked on some stuff to fix other leaks and corruptions in ath10k related
to txqs, maybe that is part of this problem.  My full tree is here:

https://github.com/greearb/linux-ct-4.16

This bug in question is fairly repeatable on my current setup, which
is high speed tx + rx on a 9984 NIC, with buggy firmware that crashes
often in the tx path. I think the crash only happens when I rmmod the
driver under load, but possibly some of the fw crash cleanup logic
that ran previously is also involved.

Yeah, if it happens under load that is consistent with packets being
queued.

It seems that mac80211 frees the netdevs of an interface before flushing
the TXQs, which may be the cause of the bug you are seeing. Could you
try the patch below and see if that fixes the issue?

I've run with this for a few days, and it seems to at least not cause
any extra problems.  I mostly fixed the firmware crashing I was seeing
before, so not certain it fixes the root cause of the crashes I
saw before.  I'm going to roll this into my 4.16 ct kernel for wider
testing.

Thanks,
Ben


-Toke


diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index e65c2abb2a54..d21ef14d327d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -1213,6 +1213,7 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
  	unregister_inet6addr_notifier(&local->ifa6_notifier);
  #endif
+	ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local);

  	rtnl_lock();

@@ -1241,7 +1242,6 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
  	skb_queue_purge(&local->skb_queue);
  	skb_queue_purge(&local->skb_queue_unreliable);
  	skb_queue_purge(&local->skb_queue_tdls_chsw);
-	ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local);

  	destroy_workqueue(local->workqueue);
  	wiphy_unregister(local->hw.wiphy);



--
Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com




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