This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD
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:
hamradio-improve-the-incomplete-fix-to-avoid-npd.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 b2f37aead1b82a770c48b5d583f35ec22aabb61e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lin Ma <linma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:13:56 +0800
Subject: hamradio: improve the incomplete fix to avoid NPD
From: Lin Ma <linma@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b2f37aead1b82a770c48b5d583f35ec22aabb61e upstream.
The previous commit 3e0588c291d6 ("hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after
unregister_netdev") reorder the kfree operations and unregister_netdev
operation to prevent UAF.
This commit improves the previous one by also deferring the nullify of
the ax->tty pointer. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference bug occurs.
Partial of the stack trace is shown below.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000538
RIP: 0010:ax_xmit+0x1f9/0x400
...
Call Trace:
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xec/0x320
sch_direct_xmit+0xea/0x240
__qdisc_run+0x166/0x5c0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x2c7/0xaf0
ax25_std_establish_data_link+0x59/0x60
ax25_connect+0x3a0/0x500
? security_socket_connect+0x2b/0x40
__sys_connect+0x96/0xc0
? __hrtimer_init+0xc0/0xc0
? common_nsleep+0x2e/0x50
? switch_fpu_return+0x139/0x1a0
__x64_sys_connect+0x11/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
The crash point is shown as below
static void ax_encaps(...) {
...
set_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &ax->tty->flags); // ax->tty = NULL!
...
}
By placing the nullify action after the unregister_netdev, the ax->tty
pointer won't be assigned as NULL net_device framework layer is well
synchronized.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <linma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
@@ -803,14 +803,14 @@ static void mkiss_close(struct tty_struc
*/
netif_stop_queue(ax->dev);
- ax->tty = NULL;
-
unregister_netdev(ax->dev);
/* Free all AX25 frame buffers after unreg. */
kfree(ax->rbuff);
kfree(ax->xbuff);
+ ax->tty = NULL;
+
free_netdev(ax->dev);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linma@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/hamradio-improve-the-incomplete-fix-to-avoid-npd.patch
queue-4.4/hamradio-defer-ax25-kfree-after-unregister_netdev.patch
queue-4.4/ax25-npd-bug-when-detaching-ax25-device.patch
