3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4184b2a79a7612a9272ce20d639934584a1f3786 ] A very minimal and simple user space application allocating an SCTP socket, setting SCTP_AUTH_KEY setsockopt(2) on it and then closing the socket again will leak the memory containing the authentication key from user space: unreferenced object 0xffff8800837047c0 (size 16): comm "a.out", pid 2789, jiffies 4296954322 (age 192.258s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff816d7e8e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0 [<ffffffff811c88d8>] __kmalloc+0xe8/0x270 [<ffffffffa0870c23>] sctp_auth_create_key+0x23/0x50 [sctp] [<ffffffffa08718b1>] sctp_auth_set_key+0xa1/0x140 [sctp] [<ffffffffa086b383>] sctp_setsockopt+0xd03/0x1180 [sctp] [<ffffffff815bfd94>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff815beb61>] SyS_setsockopt+0x71/0xd0 [<ffffffff816e58a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff This is bad because of two things, we can bring down a machine from user space when auth_enable=1, but also we would leave security sensitive keying material in memory without clearing it after use. The issue is that sctp_auth_create_key() already sets the refcount to 1, but after allocation sctp_auth_set_key() does an additional refcount on it, and thus leaving it around when we free the socket. Fixes: 65b07e5d0d0 ("[SCTP]: API updates to suport SCTP-AUTH extensions.") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/auth.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/sctp/auth.c +++ b/net/sctp/auth.c @@ -862,8 +862,6 @@ int sctp_auth_set_key(struct sctp_endpoi list_add(&cur_key->key_list, sh_keys); cur_key->key = key; - sctp_auth_key_hold(key); - return 0; nomem: if (!replace) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html