This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ping: fix a null pointer dereference
to the 4.9-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:
ping-fix-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Feb 14 17:03:08 PST 2017
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:59:46 -0800
Subject: ping: fix a null pointer dereference
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 73d2c6678e6c3af7e7a42b1e78cd0211782ade32 ]
Andrey reported a kernel crash:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
Dumping ftrace buffer:
(ftrace buffer empty)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 3880 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc6+ #124
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
task: ffff880060048040 task.stack: ffff880069be8000
RIP: 0010:ping_v4_push_pending_frames net/ipv4/ping.c:647 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ping_v4_sendmsg+0x1acd/0x23f0 net/ipv4/ping.c:837
RSP: 0018:ffff880069bef8b8 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff880069befb90 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffff880069befa30 RDI: 00000000000000c2
RBP: ffff880069befbb8 R08: 0000000000000008 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880069befab0
R13: ffff88006c624a80 R14: ffff880069befa70 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f6f7c716700(0000) GS:ffff88006de00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000004a6f28 CR3: 000000003a134000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
inet_sendmsg+0x164/0x5b0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:744
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:635 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xca/0x110 net/socket.c:645
SYSC_sendto+0x660/0x810 net/socket.c:1687
SyS_sendto+0x40/0x50 net/socket.c:1655
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
This is because we miss a check for NULL pointer for skb_peek() when
the queue is empty. Other places already have the same check.
Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/ping.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv4/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c
@@ -642,6 +642,8 @@ static int ping_v4_push_pending_frames(s
{
struct sk_buff *skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_write_queue);
+ if (!skb)
+ return 0;
pfh->wcheck = csum_partial((char *)&pfh->icmph,
sizeof(struct icmphdr), pfh->wcheck);
pfh->icmph.checksum = csum_fold(pfh->wcheck);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/sit-fix-a-double-free-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.9/ping-fix-a-null-pointer-dereference.patch
queue-4.9/net-use-a-work-queue-to-defer-net_disable_timestamp-work.patch