CVE: CVE-2022-49215
Published: 2025-02-26
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xsk: Fix race at socket teardown

Fix a race in the xsk socket teardown code that can lead to a NULL pointer
dereference splat. The current xsk unbind code in xsk_unbind_dev() starts by
setting xs->state to XSK_UNBOUND, sets xs->dev to NULL and then waits for any
NAPI processing to terminate using synchronize_net(). After that, the release
code starts to tear down the socket state and free allocated memory.

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:[PII_REDACTED]0000c0
  PGD [PII_REDACTED] P4D [PII_REDACTED] PUD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 25 PID: 69132 Comm: grpcpp_sync_ser Tainted: G          I       5.16.0+ #2
  Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/0599V5, BIOS 1.2.10 03/09/2015
  RIP: 0010:__xsk_sendmsg+0x2c/0x690
  [...]
  RSP: 0018:ffffa2348bd13d50 EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffff8d5fc632d258
  RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: ffffa2348bd13e10 RDI: ffff8d5fc5489800
  RBP: ffffa2348bd13db0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 00007ffffffff000
  R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff8d5fc5489800
  R13: ffff8d5fcb0f5140 R14: ffff8d5fcb0f5140 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
  FS:  00007f991cff9400(0000) GS:ffff8d6f1f700000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
  CR2:[PII_REDACTED]0000c0 CR3: [PII_REDACTED] CR4:[PII_REDACTED]1706e0
  Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? aa_sk_perm+0x43/0x1b0
  xsk_sendmsg+0xf0/0x110
  sock_sendmsg+0x65/0x70
  __sys_sendto+0x113/0x190
  ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
  ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x23/0x50
  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xa5/0x1d0
  __x64_sys_sendto+0x29/0x30
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

There are two problems with the current code. First, setting xs->dev to NULL
before waiting for all users to stop using the socket is not correct. The
entry to the data plane functions xsk_poll(), xsk_sendmsg(), and xsk_recvmsg()
are all guarded by a test that xs->state is in the state XSK_BOUND and if not,
it returns right away. But one process might have passed this test but still
have not gotten to the point in which it uses xs->dev in the code. In this
interim, a second process executing xsk_unbind_dev() might have set xs->dev to
NULL which will lead to a crash for the first process. The solution here is
just to get rid of this NULL assignment since it is not used anymore. Before
commit 42fddcc7c64b ("xsk: use state member for socket synchronization"),
xs->dev was the gatekeeper to admit processes into the data plane functions,
but it was replaced with the state variable xs->state in the aforementioned
commit.

The second problem is that synchronize_net() does not wait for any process in
xsk_poll(), xsk_sendmsg(), or xsk_recvmsg() to complete, which means that the
state they rely on might be cleaned up prematurely. This can happen when the
notifier gets called (at driver unload for example) as it uses xsk_unbind_dev().
Solve this by extending the RCU critical region from just the ndo_xsk_wakeup
to the whole functions mentioned above, so that both the test of xs->state ==
XSK_BOUND and the last use of any member of xs is covered by the RCU critical
section. This will guarantee that when synchronize_net() completes, there will
be no processes left executing xsk_poll(), xsk_sendmsg(), or xsk_recvmsg() and
state can be cleaned up safely. Note that we need to drop the RCU lock for the
skb xmit path as it uses functions that might sleep. Due to this, we have to
retest the xs->state after we grab the mutex that protects the skb xmit code
from, among a number of things, an xsk_unbind_dev() being executed from the
notifier at the same time.
CVSS Score: 4.7 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-362, CWE-476, CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18b1ab7aa76bde181bdb1ab19a87fa9523c32f21; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a2dea162b92c322f3e42eae0c4a74b8d20aa7a9; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad7219cd8751bd258b9d1e69ae0654ec00f71875