linux/net/sctp
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 8e2d61e0ae sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization
Consider sctp module is unloaded and is being requested because an user
is creating a sctp socket.

During initialization, sctp will add the new protocol type and then
initialize pernet subsys:

        status = sctp_v4_protosw_init();
        if (status)
                goto err_protosw_init;

        status = sctp_v6_protosw_init();
        if (status)
                goto err_v6_protosw_init;

        status = register_pernet_subsys(&sctp_net_ops);

The problem is that after those calls to sctp_v{4,6}_protosw_init(), it
is possible for userspace to create SCTP sockets like if the module is
already fully loaded. If that happens, one of the possible effects is
that we will have readers for net->sctp.local_addr_list list earlier
than expected and sctp_net_init() does not take precautions while
dealing with that list, leading to a potential panic but not limited to
that, as sctp_sock_init() will copy a bunch of blank/partially
initialized values from net->sctp.

The race happens like this:

     CPU 0                           |  CPU 1
  socket()                           |
   __sock_create                     | socket()
    inet_create                      |  __sock_create
     list_for_each_entry_rcu(        |
        answer, &inetsw[sock->type], |
        list) {                      |   inet_create
      /* no hits */                  |
     if (unlikely(err)) {            |
      ...                            |
      request_module()               |
      /* socket creation is blocked  |
       * the module is fully loaded  |
       */                            |
       sctp_init                     |
        sctp_v4_protosw_init         |
         inet_register_protosw       |
          list_add_rcu(&p->list,     |
                       last_perm);   |
                                     |  list_for_each_entry_rcu(
                                     |     answer, &inetsw[sock->type],
        sctp_v6_protosw_init         |     list) {
                                     |     /* hit, so assumes protocol
                                     |      * is already loaded
                                     |      */
                                     |  /* socket creation continues
                                     |   * before netns is initialized
                                     |   */
        register_pernet_subsys       |

Simply inverting the initialization order between
register_pernet_subsys() and sctp_v4_protosw_init() is not possible
because register_pernet_subsys() will create a control sctp socket, so
the protocol must be already visible by then. Deferring the socket
creation to a work-queue is not good specially because we loose the
ability to handle its errors.

So, as suggested by Vlad, the fix is to split netns initialization in
two moments: defaults and control socket, so that the defaults are
already loaded by when we register the protocol, while control socket
initialization is kept at the same moment it is today.

Fixes: 4db67e8086 ("sctp: Make the address lists per network namespace")
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-11 15:00:02 -07:00
..
associola.c net: sctp: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree" 2015-02-02 19:29:43 -08:00
auth.c sctp: allow authenticating DATA chunks that are bundled with COOKIE_ECHO 2015-06-12 14:18:20 -07:00
bind_addr.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
chunk.c switch sctp_user_addto_chunk() and sctp_datamsg_from_user() to passing iov_iter 2014-11-24 05:16:40 -05:00
debug.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
endpointola.c net: sctp: migrate most recently used transport to ktime 2014-06-11 12:23:17 -07:00
input.c sctp: Change sctp to implement csum_levels 2014-08-29 20:41:11 -07:00
inqueue.c net: sctp: fix remote memory pressure from excessive queueing 2014-10-14 12:46:22 -04:00
ipv6.c ipv6: Add rt6_get_cookie() function 2015-05-25 13:25:34 -04:00
Kconfig net: sctp: get rid of SCTP_DBG_TSNS entirely 2013-07-02 00:08:03 -07:00
Makefile net: sctp: Inline the functions from command.c 2014-07-08 14:38:48 -07:00
objcnt.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with (foo*)|foo * bar|foo* bar 2013-12-26 13:47:47 -05:00
output.c sctp: Fix race between OOTB responce and route removal 2015-06-29 09:28:42 -07:00
outqueue.c net: sctp: Rename SCTP_XMIT_NAGLE_DELAY to SCTP_XMIT_DELAY 2014-07-22 13:32:11 -07:00
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: replace seq_printf with seq_puts 2014-10-30 19:40:16 -04:00
protocol.c sctp: fix race on protocol/netns initialization 2015-09-11 15:00:02 -07:00
sm_make_chunk.c sctp: ASCONF-ACK with Unresolvable Address should be sent 2015-08-28 22:25:42 -07:00
sm_sideeffect.c sctp: Do not try to search for the transport twice 2015-08-28 22:25:43 -07:00
sm_statefuns.c sctp: fix cut and paste issue in comment 2015-07-21 00:21:32 -07:00
sm_statetable.c sctp: fix checkpatch errors with indent 2013-12-26 13:47:48 -05:00
socket.c net: sctp: stop spamming klog with rfc6458, 5.3.2. deprecation warnings 2015-07-26 16:32:41 -07:00
ssnmap.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
sysctl.c sctp: avoid to repeatedly declare external variables 2015-03-25 11:40:16 -04:00
transport.c sctp: Fixup v4mapped behaviour to comply with Sock API 2014-07-31 21:49:06 -07:00
tsnmap.c sctp: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
ulpevent.c sctp: Fixup v4mapped behaviour to comply with Sock API 2014-07-31 21:49:06 -07:00
ulpqueue.c net: introduce SO_INCOMING_CPU 2014-11-11 13:00:06 -05:00