Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 2021 08:51:13 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix NULL pointer dereference in ip6_output() | From | David Ahern <> |
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[ cc a few SR6 folks ]
On 12/6/21 9:34 AM, Andrea Righi wrote: > It is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference by running the srv6 > net kselftest (tools/testing/selftests/net/srv6_end_dt46_l3vpn_test.sh): > > [ 249.051216] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000378 > [ 249.052331] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode > [ 249.053137] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page > [ 249.053960] PGD 0 P4D 0 > [ 249.054376] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI > [ 249.055083] CPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Tainted: G E 5.16.0-rc4 #2 > [ 249.056328] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 > [ 249.057632] RIP: 0010:ip6_forward+0x53c/0xab0 > [ 249.058354] Code: 49 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 48 83 e0 fe 48 8b 40 30 48 3d 70 b2 b5 81 0f 85 b5 04 00 00 e8 7c f2 ff ff 41 89 c5 e9 17 01 00 00 <44> 8b 93 78 03 00 00 45 85 d2 0f 85 92 fb ff ff 49 8b 54 24 10 48 > [ 249.061274] RSP: 0018:ffffc900000cbb30 EFLAGS: 00010246 > [ 249.062042] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8881051d3400 > [ 249.063141] RDX: ffff888104bda000 RSI: 00000000000002c0 RDI: 0000000000000000 > [ 249.064264] RBP: ffffc900000cbbc8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 > [ 249.065376] R10: 0000000000000040 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888103409800 > [ 249.066498] R13: ffff8881051d3410 R14: ffff888102725280 R15: ffff888103525000 > [ 249.067619] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88813bc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 249.068881] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > [ 249.069777] CR2: 0000000000000378 CR3: 0000000104980000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0 > [ 249.070907] PKRU: 55555554 > [ 249.071337] Call Trace: > [ 249.071730] <TASK> > [ 249.072070] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 > [ 249.072807] seg6_input_core+0x2bb/0x2d0 > [ 249.073436] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x29/0x40 > [ 249.074225] seg6_input+0x3b/0x130 > [ 249.074768] lwtunnel_input+0x5e/0xa0 > [ 249.075357] ip_rcv+0x17b/0x190 > [ 249.075867] ? update_load_avg+0x82/0x600 > [ 249.076514] __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x86/0xa0 > [ 249.077231] __netif_receive_skb+0x15/0x60 > [ 249.077843] process_backlog+0x97/0x160 > [ 249.078389] __napi_poll+0x31/0x170 > [ 249.078912] net_rx_action+0x229/0x270 > [ 249.079506] __do_softirq+0xef/0x2ed > [ 249.080085] run_ksoftirqd+0x37/0x50 > [ 249.080663] smpboot_thread_fn+0x193/0x230 > [ 249.081312] kthread+0x17a/0x1a0 > [ 249.081847] ? smpboot_register_percpu_thread+0xe0/0xe0 > [ 249.082677] ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 > [ 249.083340] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 > [ 249.083926] </TASK> > [ 249.090295] ---[ end trace 1998d7ba5965a365 ]--- > > It looks like commit 0857d6f8c759 ("ipv6: When forwarding count rx stats > on the orig netdev") tries to determine the right netdev to account the > rx stats, but in this particular case it's failing and the netdev is > NULL. > > Fallback to the previous method of determining the netdev interface (via > skb->dev) to account the rx stats when the orig netdev can't be > determined. > > Fixes: 0857d6f8c759 ("ipv6: When forwarding count rx stats on the orig netdev") > Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> > --- > net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c > index ff4e83e2a506..7ca4719ff34c 100644 > --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c > +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c > @@ -472,6 +472,9 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb) > u32 mtu; > > idev = __in6_dev_get_safely(dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, IP6CB(skb)->iif)); > + if (unlikely(!idev)) > + idev = __in6_dev_get_safely(skb->dev); > +
We need to understand why iif is not set - or set to an invalid value.
> if (net->ipv6.devconf_all->forwarding == 0) > goto error; > >
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