This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in ax25 timers to the 4.19-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: ax25-fix-null-pointer-dereferences-in-ax25-timers.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 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 Apr 26 09:00:25 AM CEST 2022 From: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:24:21 +0300 Subject: ax25: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in ax25 timers To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx>, "David S . Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20220421102422.1206656-7-ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> commit fc6d01ff9ef03b66d4a3a23b46fc3c3d8cf92009 upstream. The previous commit 7ec02f5ac8a5 ("ax25: fix NPD bug in ax25_disconnect") move ax25_disconnect into lock_sock() in order to prevent NPD bugs. But there are race conditions that may lead to null pointer dereferences in ax25_heartbeat_expiry(), ax25_t1timer_expiry(), ax25_t2timer_expiry(), ax25_t3timer_expiry() and ax25_idletimer_expiry(), when we use ax25_kill_by_device() to detach the ax25 device. One of the race conditions that cause null pointer dereferences can be shown as below: (Thread 1) | (Thread 2) ax25_connect() | ax25_std_establish_data_link() | ax25_start_t1timer() | mod_timer(&ax25->t1timer,..) | | ax25_kill_by_device() (wait a time) | ... | s->ax25_dev = NULL; //(1) ax25_t1timer_expiry() | ax25->ax25_dev->values[..] //(2)| ... ... | We set null to ax25_cb->ax25_dev in position (1) and dereference the null pointer in position (2). The corresponding fail log is shown below: =============================================================== BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000050 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc6-00794-g45690b7d0 RIP: 0010:ax25_t1timer_expiry+0x12/0x40 ... Call Trace: call_timer_fn+0x21/0x120 __run_timers.part.0+0x1ca/0x250 run_timer_softirq+0x2c/0x60 __do_softirq+0xef/0x2f3 irq_exit_rcu+0xb6/0x100 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa2/0xd0 ... This patch moves ax25_disconnect() before s->ax25_dev = NULL and uses del_timer_sync() to delete timers in ax25_disconnect(). If ax25_disconnect() is called by ax25_kill_by_device() or ax25->ax25_dev is NULL, the reason in ax25_disconnect() will be equal to ENETUNREACH, it will wait all timers to stop before we set null to s->ax25_dev in ax25_kill_by_device(). Fixes: 7ec02f5ac8a5 ("ax25: fix NPD bug in ax25_disconnect") Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [OP: backport to 4.19: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 4 ++-- net/ax25/ax25_subr.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c +++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c @@ -92,20 +92,20 @@ again: sk = s->sk; if (!sk) { spin_unlock_bh(&ax25_list_lock); - s->ax25_dev = NULL; ax25_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH); + s->ax25_dev = NULL; spin_lock_bh(&ax25_list_lock); goto again; } sock_hold(sk); spin_unlock_bh(&ax25_list_lock); lock_sock(sk); + ax25_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH); s->ax25_dev = NULL; if (sk->sk_socket) { dev_put(ax25_dev->dev); ax25_dev_put(ax25_dev); } - ax25_disconnect(s, ENETUNREACH); release_sock(sk); spin_lock_bh(&ax25_list_lock); sock_put(sk); --- a/net/ax25/ax25_subr.c +++ b/net/ax25/ax25_subr.c @@ -264,12 +264,20 @@ void ax25_disconnect(ax25_cb *ax25, int { ax25_clear_queues(ax25); - if (!ax25->sk || !sock_flag(ax25->sk, SOCK_DESTROY)) - ax25_stop_heartbeat(ax25); - ax25_stop_t1timer(ax25); - ax25_stop_t2timer(ax25); - ax25_stop_t3timer(ax25); - ax25_stop_idletimer(ax25); + if (reason == ENETUNREACH) { + del_timer_sync(&ax25->timer); + del_timer_sync(&ax25->t1timer); + del_timer_sync(&ax25->t2timer); + del_timer_sync(&ax25->t3timer); + del_timer_sync(&ax25->idletimer); + } else { + if (!ax25->sk || !sock_flag(ax25->sk, SOCK_DESTROY)) + ax25_stop_heartbeat(ax25); + ax25_stop_t1timer(ax25); + ax25_stop_t2timer(ax25); + ax25_stop_t3timer(ax25); + ax25_stop_idletimer(ax25); + } ax25->state = AX25_STATE_0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ovidiu.panait@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/ax25-fix-refcount-leaks-caused-by-ax25_cb_del.patch queue-4.19/ax25-fix-uaf-bug-in-ax25_send_control.patch queue-4.19/ax25-fix-uaf-bugs-of-net_device-caused-by-rebinding-operation.patch queue-4.19/ax25-fix-npd-bug-in-ax25_disconnect.patch queue-4.19/ax25-add-refcount-in-ax25_dev-to-avoid-uaf-bugs.patch queue-4.19/ax25-fix-uaf-bugs-in-ax25-timers.patch queue-4.19/ax25-fix-reference-count-leaks-of-ax25_dev.patch queue-4.19/ax25-fix-null-pointer-dereferences-in-ax25-timers.patch