This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/smc: fix NULL pointer dereference on sock_create_kern() error path to the 4.14-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-smc-fix-null-pointer-dereference-on-sock_create_kern-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a5dcb73b96a9d21431048bdaac02d9e96f386da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:44:09 +0100 Subject: net/smc: fix NULL pointer dereference on sock_create_kern() error path From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a5dcb73b96a9d21431048bdaac02d9e96f386da3 upstream. when sock_create_kern(..., a) returns an error, 'a' might not be a valid pointer, so it shouldn't be dereferenced to read a->sk->sk_sndbuf and and a->sk->sk_rcvbuf; not doing that caused the following crash: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 4254 Comm: syzkaller919713 Not tainted 4.16.0-rc1+ #18 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:smc_create+0x14e/0x300 net/smc/af_smc.c:1410 RSP: 0018:ffff8801b06afbc8 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8801b63457c0 RCX: ffffffff85a3e746 RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 00000000ffffffff RDI: 0000000000000020 RBP: ffff8801b06afbf0 R08: 00000000000007c0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff8801b6345c08 R14: 00000000ffffffe9 R15: ffffffff8695ced0 FS: 0000000001afb880(0000) GS:ffff8801db200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020000040 CR3: 00000001b0721004 CR4: 00000000001606f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: __sock_create+0x4d4/0x850 net/socket.c:1285 sock_create net/socket.c:1325 [inline] SYSC_socketpair net/socket.c:1409 [inline] SyS_socketpair+0x1c0/0x6f0 net/socket.c:1366 do_syscall_64+0x282/0x940 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x26/0x9b RIP: 0033:0x4404b9 RSP: 002b:00007fff44ab6908 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000035 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000004404b9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 000000000000002b RBP: 00007fff44ab6910 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 00007fff44003031 R10: 0000000020000040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffffffffffffffff R13: 0000000000000006 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 b3 01 00 00 4c 8b a3 48 04 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 8d 7c 24 20 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 82 01 00 00 4d 8b 7c 24 20 48 b8 00 00 00 00 RIP: smc_create+0x14e/0x300 net/smc/af_smc.c:1410 RSP: ffff8801b06afbc8 Fixes: cd6851f30386 smc: remote memory buffers (RMBs) Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+aa0227369be2dcc26ebe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/smc/af_smc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/smc/af_smc.c +++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c @@ -1351,8 +1351,10 @@ static int smc_create(struct net *net, s smc->use_fallback = false; /* assume rdma capability first */ rc = sock_create_kern(net, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP, &smc->clcsock); - if (rc) + if (rc) { sk_common_release(sk); + goto out; + } smc->sk.sk_sndbuf = max(smc->clcsock->sk->sk_sndbuf, SMC_BUF_MIN_SIZE); smc->sk.sk_rcvbuf = max(smc->clcsock->sk->sk_rcvbuf, SMC_BUF_MIN_SIZE); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-smc-fix-null-pointer-dereference-on-sock_create_kern-error-path.patch