This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netlink: annotate data races around nlk->bound 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: netlink-annotate-data-races-around-nlk-bound.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. commit d128937e3890a4e19d4942f8140fade3be794718 Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 4 14:24:15 2021 -0700 netlink: annotate data races around nlk->bound [ Upstream commit 7707a4d01a648e4c655101a469c956cb11273655 ] While existing code is correct, KCSAN is reporting a data-race in netlink_insert / netlink_sendmsg [1] It is correct to read nlk->bound without a lock, as netlink_autobind() will acquire all needed locks. [1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in netlink_insert / netlink_sendmsg write to 0xffff8881031c8b30 of 1 bytes by task 18752 on cpu 0: netlink_insert+0x5cc/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:597 netlink_autobind+0xa9/0x150 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:842 netlink_sendmsg+0x479/0x7c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1892 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:703 [inline] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:723 [inline] ____sys_sendmsg+0x360/0x4d0 net/socket.c:2392 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2446 [inline] __sys_sendmsg+0x1ed/0x270 net/socket.c:2475 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2484 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2482 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x50 net/socket.c:2482 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae read to 0xffff8881031c8b30 of 1 bytes by task 18751 on cpu 1: netlink_sendmsg+0x270/0x7c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:703 [inline] sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:723 [inline] __sys_sendto+0x2a8/0x370 net/socket.c:2019 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2031 [inline] __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2027 [inline] __x64_sys_sendto+0x74/0x90 net/socket.c:2027 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae value changed: 0x00 -> 0x01 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 PID: 18751 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Fixes: da314c9923fe ("netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c index 260cba93a2cf..65cf129eaad3 100644 --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -574,7 +574,10 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *sk, u32 portid) /* We need to ensure that the socket is hashed and visible. */ smp_wmb(); - nlk_sk(sk)->bound = portid; + /* Paired with lockless reads from netlink_bind(), + * netlink_connect() and netlink_sendmsg(). + */ + WRITE_ONCE(nlk_sk(sk)->bound, portid); err: release_sock(sk); @@ -993,7 +996,8 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr, else if (nlk->ngroups < 8*sizeof(groups)) groups &= (1UL << nlk->ngroups) - 1; - bound = nlk->bound; + /* Paired with WRITE_ONCE() in netlink_insert() */ + bound = READ_ONCE(nlk->bound); if (bound) { /* Ensure nlk->portid is up-to-date. */ smp_rmb(); @@ -1073,8 +1077,9 @@ static int netlink_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr, /* No need for barriers here as we return to user-space without * using any of the bound attributes. + * Paired with WRITE_ONCE() in netlink_insert(). */ - if (!nlk->bound) + if (!READ_ONCE(nlk->bound)) err = netlink_autobind(sock); if (err == 0) { @@ -1821,7 +1826,8 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len) dst_group = nlk->dst_group; } - if (!nlk->bound) { + /* Paired with WRITE_ONCE() in netlink_insert() */ + if (!READ_ONCE(nlk->bound)) { err = netlink_autobind(sock); if (err) goto out;