This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/rds: fix possible cp null dereference
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:
net-rds-fix-possible-cp-null-dereference.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 62fc3357e079a07a22465b9b6ef71bb6ea75ee4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahmoud Adam <mngyadam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:31:33 +0100
Subject: net/rds: fix possible cp null dereference
From: Mahmoud Adam <mngyadam@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 62fc3357e079a07a22465b9b6ef71bb6ea75ee4b upstream.
cp might be null, calling cp->cp_conn would produce null dereference
[Simon Horman adds:]
Analysis:
* cp is a parameter of __rds_rdma_map and is not reassigned.
* The following call-sites pass a NULL cp argument to __rds_rdma_map()
- rds_get_mr()
- rds_get_mr_for_dest
* Prior to the code above, the following assumes that cp may be NULL
(which is indicative, but could itself be unnecessary)
trans_private = rs->rs_transport->get_mr(
sg, nents, rs, &mr->r_key, cp ? cp->cp_conn : NULL,
args->vec.addr, args->vec.bytes,
need_odp ? ODP_ZEROBASED : ODP_NOT_NEEDED);
* The code modified by this patch is guarded by IS_ERR(trans_private),
where trans_private is assigned as per the previous point in this analysis.
The only implementation of get_mr that I could locate is rds_ib_get_mr()
which can return an ERR_PTR if the conn (4th) argument is NULL.
* ret is set to PTR_ERR(trans_private).
rds_ib_get_mr can return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) if the conn (4th) argument is NULL.
Thus ret may be -ENODEV in which case the code in question will execute.
Conclusion:
* cp may be NULL at the point where this patch adds a check;
this patch does seem to address a possible bug
Fixes: c055fc00c07b ("net/rds: fix WARNING in rds_conn_connect_if_down")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Adam <mngyadam@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326153132.55580-1-mngyadam@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rds/rdma.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/rds/rdma.c
+++ b/net/rds/rdma.c
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int __rds_rdma_map(struct rds_soc
kfree(sg);
ret = PTR_ERR(trans_private);
/* Trigger connection so that its ready for the next retry */
- if (ret == -ENODEV)
+ if (ret == -ENODEV && cp)
rds_conn_connect_if_down(cp->cp_conn);
goto out;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mngyadam@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/net-rds-fix-possible-cp-null-dereference.patch
