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[ipsec] xfrm: fix rcu lock in xfrm_notify_userpolicy()

Message ID 20210922085006.13570-1-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com (mailing list archive)
State Awaiting Upstream
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series [ipsec] xfrm: fix rcu lock in xfrm_notify_userpolicy() | expand

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Nicolas Dichtel Sept. 22, 2021, 8:50 a.m. UTC
As stated in the comment above xfrm_nlmsg_multicast(), rcu read lock must
be held before calling this function.

Reported-by: syzbot+3d9866419b4aa8f985d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 703b94b93c19 ("xfrm: notify default policy on update")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Steffen Klassert Sept. 25, 2021, 8:06 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 10:50:06AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> As stated in the comment above xfrm_nlmsg_multicast(), rcu read lock must
> be held before calling this function.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+3d9866419b4aa8f985d6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 703b94b93c19 ("xfrm: notify default policy on update")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

Applied, thanks Nicolas!
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diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index 0eba0c27c665..3a3cb09eec12 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -1967,6 +1967,7 @@  static int xfrm_notify_userpolicy(struct net *net)
 	int len = NLMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(*up));
 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	int err;
 
 	skb = nlmsg_new(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (skb == NULL)
@@ -1988,7 +1989,11 @@  static int xfrm_notify_userpolicy(struct net *net)
 
 	nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
 
-	return xfrm_nlmsg_multicast(net, skb, 0, XFRMNLGRP_POLICY);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	err = xfrm_nlmsg_multicast(net, skb, 0, XFRMNLGRP_POLICY);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 static int xfrm_set_default(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,