net: fix IP early demux races

David Wilder reported crashes caused by dst reuse.

<quote David>
  I am seeing a crash on a distro V4.2.3 kernel caused by a double
  release of a dst_entry.  In ipv4_dst_destroy() the call to
  list_empty() finds a poisoned next pointer, indicating the dst_entry
  has already been removed from the list and freed. The crash occurs
  18 to 24 hours into a run of a network stress exerciser.
</quote>

Thanks to his detailed report and analysis, we were able to understand
the core issue.

IP early demux can associate a dst to skb, after a lookup in TCP/UDP
sockets.

When socket cache is not properly set, we want to store into
sk->sk_dst_cache the dst for future IP early demux lookups,
by acquiring a stable refcount on the dst.

Problem is this acquisition is simply using an atomic_inc(),
which works well, unless the dst was queued for destruction from
dst_release() noticing dst refcount went to zero, if DST_NOCACHE
was set on dst.

We need to make sure current refcount is not zero before incrementing
it, or risk double free as David reported.

This patch, being a stable candidate, adds two new helpers, and use
them only from IP early demux problematic paths.

It might be possible to merge in net-next skb_dst_force() and
skb_dst_force_safe(), but I prefer having the smallest patch for stable
kernels : Maybe some skb_dst_force() callers do not expect skb->dst
can suddenly be cleared.

Can probably be backported back to linux-3.6 kernels

Reported-by: David J. Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: David J. Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
index db003438aaf5..d8841a2f1569 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
@@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (likely(sk->sk_rx_dst))
 		skb_dst_drop(skb);
 	else
-		skb_dst_force(skb);
+		skb_dst_force_safe(skb);
 
 	__skb_queue_tail(&tp->ucopy.prequeue, skb);
 	tp->ucopy.memory += skb->truesize;
@@ -1721,8 +1721,7 @@ void inet_sk_rx_dst_set(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
 
-	if (dst) {
-		dst_hold(dst);
+	if (dst && dst_hold_safe(dst)) {
 		sk->sk_rx_dst = dst;
 		inet_sk(sk)->rx_dst_ifindex = skb->skb_iif;
 	}