This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sch_choke: avoid potential panic in choke_reset() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sch_choke-avoid-potential-panic-in-choke_reset.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue 12 May 2020 11:40:03 AM CEST From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:19:51 -0700 Subject: sch_choke: avoid potential panic in choke_reset() From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8738c85c72b3108c9b9a369a39868ba5f8e10ae0 ] If choke_init() could not allocate q->tab, we would crash later in choke_reset(). BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in memset include/linux/string.h:366 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in choke_reset+0x208/0x340 net/sched/sch_choke.c:326 Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task syz-executor822/7022 CPU: 1 PID: 7022 Comm: syz-executor822 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x188/0x20d lib/dump_stack.c:118 __kasan_report.cold+0x5/0x4d mm/kasan/report.c:515 kasan_report+0x33/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:625 check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:187 [inline] check_memory_region+0x141/0x190 mm/kasan/generic.c:193 memset+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:85 memset include/linux/string.h:366 [inline] choke_reset+0x208/0x340 net/sched/sch_choke.c:326 qdisc_reset+0x6b/0x520 net/sched/sch_generic.c:910 dev_deactivate_queue.constprop.0+0x13c/0x240 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1138 netdev_for_each_tx_queue include/linux/netdevice.h:2197 [inline] dev_deactivate_many+0xe2/0xba0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1195 dev_deactivate+0xf8/0x1c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1233 qdisc_graft+0xd25/0x1120 net/sched/sch_api.c:1051 tc_modify_qdisc+0xbab/0x1a00 net/sched/sch_api.c:1670 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x44e/0xad0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5454 netlink_rcv_skb+0x15a/0x410 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2469 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1303 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x537/0x740 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1329 netlink_sendmsg+0x882/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:672 ____sys_sendmsg+0x6bf/0x7e0 net/socket.c:2362 ___sys_sendmsg+0x100/0x170 net/socket.c:2416 __sys_sendmsg+0xec/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2449 do_syscall_64+0xf6/0x7d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:295 Fixes: 77e62da6e60c ("sch_choke: drop all packets in queue during reset") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/sch_choke.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sched/sch_choke.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_choke.c @@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ static void choke_reset(struct Qdisc *sc qdisc_drop(skb, sch); } - memset(q->tab, 0, (q->tab_mask + 1) * sizeof(struct sk_buff *)); + if (q->tab) + memset(q->tab, 0, (q->tab_mask + 1) * sizeof(struct sk_buff *)); q->head = q->tail = 0; red_restart(&q->vars); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/sch_sfq-validate-silly-quantum-values.patch queue-4.4/sch_choke-avoid-potential-panic-in-choke_reset.patch