This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()
to the 6.8-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:
af_unix-fix-garbage-collector-racing-against-connect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 985bbf97ce34e34cadfd7a3f7e92d198ac711703
Author: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 9 22:09:39 2024 +0200
af_unix: Fix garbage collector racing against connect()
[ Upstream commit 47d8ac011fe1c9251070e1bd64cb10b48193ec51 ]
Garbage collector does not take into account the risk of embryo getting
enqueued during the garbage collection. If such embryo has a peer that
carries SCM_RIGHTS, two consecutive passes of scan_children() may see a
different set of children. Leading to an incorrectly elevated inflight
count, and then a dangling pointer within the gc_inflight_list.
sockets are AF_UNIX/SOCK_STREAM
S is an unconnected socket
L is a listening in-flight socket bound to addr, not in fdtable
V's fd will be passed via sendmsg(), gets inflight count bumped
connect(S, addr) sendmsg(S, [V]); close(V) __unix_gc()
---------------- ------------------------- -----------
NS = unix_create1()
skb1 = sock_wmalloc(NS)
L = unix_find_other(addr)
unix_state_lock(L)
unix_peer(S) = NS
// V count=1 inflight=0
NS = unix_peer(S)
skb2 = sock_alloc()
skb_queue_tail(NS, skb2[V])
// V became in-flight
// V count=2 inflight=1
close(V)
// V count=1 inflight=1
// GC candidate condition met
for u in gc_inflight_list:
if (total_refs == inflight_refs)
add u to gc_candidates
// gc_candidates={L, V}
for u in gc_candidates:
scan_children(u, dec_inflight)
// embryo (skb1) was not
// reachable from L yet, so V's
// inflight remains unchanged
__skb_queue_tail(L, skb1)
unix_state_unlock(L)
for u in gc_candidates:
if (u.inflight)
scan_children(u, inc_inflight_move_tail)
// V count=1 inflight=2 (!)
If there is a GC-candidate listening socket, lock/unlock its state. This
makes GC wait until the end of any ongoing connect() to that socket. After
flipping the lock, a possibly SCM-laden embryo is already enqueued. And if
there is another embryo coming, it can not possibly carry SCM_RIGHTS. At
this point, unix_inflight() can not happen because unix_gc_lock is already
taken. Inflight graph remains unaffected.
Fixes: 1fd05ba5a2f2 ("[AF_UNIX]: Rewrite garbage collector, fixes race.")
Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409201047.1032217-1-mhal@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/unix/garbage.c b/net/unix/garbage.c
index aea222796dfdc..8734c0c1fc197 100644
--- a/net/unix/garbage.c
+++ b/net/unix/garbage.c
@@ -235,11 +235,22 @@ void unix_gc(void)
* receive queues. Other, non candidate sockets _can_ be
* added to queue, so we must make sure only to touch
* candidates.
+ *
+ * Embryos, though never candidates themselves, affect which
+ * candidates are reachable by the garbage collector. Before
+ * being added to a listener's queue, an embryo may already
+ * receive data carrying SCM_RIGHTS, potentially making the
+ * passed socket a candidate that is not yet reachable by the
+ * collector. It becomes reachable once the embryo is
+ * enqueued. Therefore, we must ensure that no SCM-laden
+ * embryo appears in a (candidate) listener's queue between
+ * consecutive scan_children() calls.
*/
list_for_each_entry_safe(u, next, &gc_inflight_list, link) {
+ struct sock *sk = &u->sk;
long total_refs;
- total_refs = file_count(u->sk.sk_socket->file);
+ total_refs = file_count(sk->sk_socket->file);
BUG_ON(!u->inflight);
BUG_ON(total_refs < u->inflight);
@@ -247,6 +258,11 @@ void unix_gc(void)
list_move_tail(&u->link, &gc_candidates);
__set_bit(UNIX_GC_CANDIDATE, &u->gc_flags);
__set_bit(UNIX_GC_MAYBE_CYCLE, &u->gc_flags);
+
+ if (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN) {
+ unix_state_lock(sk);
+ unix_state_unlock(sk);
+ }
}
}
