mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect
CVE: CVE-2024-36889
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-665
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: ensure snd_nxt is properly initialized on connect

Christoph reported a splat hinting at a corrupted snd_una:

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 38 at net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005 __mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 38 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc1-gbbeac67456c9 #59
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
  Workqueue: events mptcp_worker
  RIP: 0010:__mptcp_clean_una+0x4b3/0x620 net/mptcp/protocol.c:1005
  Code: be 06 01 00 00 bf 06 01 00 00 e8 a8 12 e7 fe e9 00 fe ff ff e8
  	8e 1a e7 fe 0f b7 ab 3e 02 00 00 e9 d3 fd ff ff e8 7d 1a e7 fe
  	<0f> 0b 4c 8b bb e0 05 00 00 e9 74 fc ff ff e8 6a 1a e7 fe 0f 0b e9
  RSP: 0018:ffffc9000013fd48 EFLAGS: 00010293
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881029bd280 RCX: ffffffff82382fe4
  RDX: ffff8881003cbd00 RSI: ffffffff823833c3 RDI: 0000000000000001
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: fefefefefefefeff R12: ffff888138ba8000
  R13: 0000000000000106 R14: ffff8881029bd908 R15: ffff888126560000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88813bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f604a5dae38 CR3: 0000000101dac002 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1055 [inline]
   mptcp_clean_una_wakeup net/mptcp/protocol.c:1062 [inline]
   __mptcp_retrans+0x7f/0x7e0 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2615
   mptcp_worker+0x434/0x740 net/mptcp/protocol.c:2767
   process_one_work+0x1e0/0x560 kernel/workqueue.c:3254
   process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3335 [inline]
   worker_thread+0x3c7/0x640 kernel/workqueue.c:3416
   kthread+0x121/0x170 kernel/kthread.c:388
   ret_from_fork+0x44/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243
   </TASK>

When fallback to TCP happens early on a client socket, snd_nxt
is not yet initialized and any incoming ack will copy such value
into snd_una. If the mptcp worker (dumbly) tries mptcp-level
re-injection after such ack, that would unconditionally trigger a send
buffer cleanup using 'bad' snd_una values.

We could easily disable re-injection for fallback sockets, but such
dumb behavior already helped catching a few subtle issues and a very
low to zero impact in practice.

Instead address the issue always initializing snd_nxt (and write_seq,
for consistency) at connect time.


Remediation:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.