From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:19:42 +0100
> rxrpc_service_prealloc_one() doesn't set the socket pointer on any new call
> it preallocates, but does add it to the rxrpc net namespace call list.
> This, however, causes rxrpc_put_call() to oops when the call is discarded
> when the socket is closed. rxrpc_put_call() needs the socket to be able to
> reach the namespace so that it can use a lock held therein.
>
> Fix this by setting a call's socket pointer immediately before discarding
> it.
>
> This can be triggered by unloading the kafs module, resulting in an oops
> like the following:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
> IP: rxrpc_put_call+0x1e2/0x32d
> PGD 0
> P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in: kafs(E-)
> CPU: 3 PID: 3037 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G E 4.12.0-fscache+ #213
> Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
> task: ffff8803fc92e2c0 task.stack: ffff8803fef74000
> RIP: 0010:rxrpc_put_call+0x1e2/0x32d
> RSP: 0018:ffff8803fef77e08 EFLAGS: 00010282
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8803fab99ac0 RCX: 000000000000000f
> RDX: ffffffff81c50a40 RSI: 000000000000000c RDI: ffff8803fc92ea88
> RBP: ffff8803fef77e30 R08: ffff8803fc87b941 R09: ffffffff82946d20
> R10: ffff8803fef77d10 R11: 00000000000076fc R12: 0000000000000005
> R13: ffff8803fab99c20 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffff816c6aee
> FS: 00007f915a059700(0000) GS:ffff88041fb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000000030 CR3: 00000003fef39000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> Call Trace:
> rxrpc_discard_prealloc+0x325/0x341
> rxrpc_listen+0xf9/0x146
> kernel_listen+0xb/0xd
> afs_close_socket+0x3e/0x173 [kafs]
> afs_exit+0x1f/0x57 [kafs]
> SyS_delete_module+0x10f/0x19a
> do_syscall_64+0x8a/0x149
> entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
>
> Fixes: 2baec2c3f854 ("rxrpc: Support network namespacing")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, but...
> cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is inappropriate for two reasons.
The code in question is new in 4.13-rcX and therefore does not need a
stable backport.
Secondly, I handle all networking stable submissions explicitly, so
please just tell me that a change should go to -stable and I will
queue it up for you, thanks.