linux/net/sctp
Daniel Borkmann 1e1cdf8ac7 net: sctp: test if association is dead in sctp_wake_up_waiters
In function sctp_wake_up_waiters(), we need to involve a test
if the association is declared dead. If so, we don't have any
reference to a possible sibling association anymore and need
to invoke sctp_write_space() instead, and normally walk the
socket's associations and notify them of new wmem space. The
reason for special casing is that otherwise, we could run
into the following issue when a sctp_primitive_SEND() call
from sctp_sendmsg() fails, and tries to flush an association's
outq, i.e. in the following way:

sctp_association_free()
`-> list_del(&asoc->asocs)         <-- poisons list pointer
    asoc->base.dead = true
    sctp_outq_free(&asoc->outqueue)
    `-> __sctp_outq_teardown()
     `-> sctp_chunk_free()
      `-> consume_skb()
       `-> sctp_wfree()
        `-> sctp_wake_up_waiters() <-- dereferences poisoned pointers
                                       if asoc->ep->sndbuf_policy=0

Therefore, only walk the list in an 'optimized' way if we find
that the current association is still active. We could also use
list_del_init() in addition when we call sctp_association_free(),
but as Vlad suggests, we want to trap such bugs and thus leave
it poisoned as is.

Why is it safe to resolve the issue by testing for asoc->base.dead?
Parallel calls to sctp_sendmsg() are protected under socket lock,
that is lock_sock()/release_sock(). Only within that path under
lock held, we're setting skb/chunk owner via sctp_set_owner_w().
Eventually, chunks are freed directly by an association still
under that lock. So when traversing association list on destruction
time from sctp_wake_up_waiters() via sctp_wfree(), a different
CPU can't be running sctp_wfree() while another one calls
sctp_association_free() as both happens under the same lock.
Therefore, this can also not race with setting/testing against
asoc->base.dead as we are guaranteed for this to happen in order,
under lock. Further, Vlad says: the times we check asoc->base.dead
is when we've cached an association pointer for later processing.
In between cache and processing, the association may have been
freed and is simply still around due to reference counts. We check
asoc->base.dead under a lock, so it should always be safe to check
and not race against sctp_association_free(). Stress-testing seems
fine now, too.

Fixes: cd253f9f357d ("net: sctp: wake up all assocs if sndbuf policy is per socket")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-09 12:37:49 -04:00
..
associola.c net: sctp: remove NULL check in sctp_assoc_update_retran_path 2014-03-13 13:23:52 -04:00
auth.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with open brace '{' and trailing statements 2013-12-26 13:47:48 -05:00
bind_addr.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
chunk.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with space required or prohibited 2013-12-26 13:47:47 -05:00
command.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
debug.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
endpointola.c sctp: remove macros sctp_local_bh_{disable|enable} 2014-01-21 18:40:40 -08:00
input.c sctp: remove macros sctp_bh_[un]lock_sock 2014-01-21 18:41:36 -08:00
inqueue.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
ipv6.c net: sctp: fix initialization of local source address on accepted ipv6 sockets 2014-02-06 21:18:06 -08:00
Kconfig net: sctp: get rid of SCTP_DBG_TSNS entirely 2013-07-02 00:08:03 -07:00
Makefile sctp: implement sctp association probing module 2010-04-30 22:41:09 -04:00
objcnt.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with (foo*)|foo * bar|foo* bar 2013-12-26 13:47:47 -05:00
output.c sctp: move skb_dst_set() a bit downwards in sctp_packet_transmit() 2013-12-31 14:31:44 -05:00
outqueue.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-06 17:37:45 -05:00
primitive.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
probe.c sctp: loading sctp when load sctp_probe 2013-12-16 20:04:27 -05:00
proc.c sctp: remove macros sctp_local_bh_{disable|enable} 2014-01-21 18:40:40 -08:00
protocol.c sctp: remove macros sctp_bh_[un]lock_sock 2014-01-21 18:41:36 -08:00
sm_make_chunk.c net: sctp: fix skb leakage in COOKIE ECHO path of chunk->auth_chunk 2014-03-05 20:40:25 -05:00
sm_sideeffect.c net: sctp: Potentially-Failed state should not be reached from unconfirmed state 2014-02-20 13:24:56 -05:00
sm_statefuns.c net: sctp: fix skb leakage in COOKIE ECHO path of chunk->auth_chunk 2014-03-05 20:40:25 -05:00
sm_statetable.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with indent 2013-12-26 13:47:48 -05:00
socket.c net: sctp: test if association is dead in sctp_wake_up_waiters 2014-04-09 12:37:49 -04:00
ssnmap.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
sysctl.c sctp: optimize the sctp_sysctl_net_register 2014-02-13 17:08:29 -05:00
transport.c net: remove unnecessary return's 2014-02-13 18:33:38 -05:00
tsnmap.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
ulpevent.c net: sctp: Fix a_rwnd/rwnd management to reflect real state of the receiver's buffer 2014-02-17 00:16:56 -05:00
ulpqueue.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with open brace '{' and trailing statements 2013-12-26 13:47:48 -05:00