Vulnerability CVE-2021-47418

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47418

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

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

net_sched: fix NULL deref in fifo_set_limit()

syzbot reported another NULL deref in fifo_set_limit() [1]

I could repro the issue with :

unshare -n
tc qd add dev lo root handle 1:0 tbf limit 200000 burst 70000 rate 100Mbit
tc qd replace dev lo parent 1:0 pfifo_fast
tc qd change dev lo root handle 1:0 tbf limit 300000 burst 70000 rate 100Mbit

pfifo_fast does not have a change() operation.
Make fifo_set_limit() more robust about this.

[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 1cf99067 P4D 1cf99067 PUD 7ca49067 PMD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 14443 Comm: syz-executor959 Not tainted 5.15.0-rc3-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0xffffffffffffffd6.
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e2f7310 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8d6ecc00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888024c27910 RDI: ffff888071e34000
RBP: ffff888071e34000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff8fcfb947
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888024c27910
R13: ffff888071e34018 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88801ef74800
FS: 00007f321d897700(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 00000000722c3000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
fifo_set_limit net/sched/sch_fifo.c:242 [inline]
fifo_set_limit+0x198/0x210 net/sched/sch_fifo.c:227
tbf_change+0x6ec/0x16d0 net/sched/sch_tbf.c:418
qdisc_change net/sched/sch_api.c:1332 [inline]
tc_modify_qdisc+0xd9a/0x1a60 net/sched/sch_api.c:1634
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x413/0xb80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5572
netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2504
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x533/0x7d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340
netlink_sendmsg+0x86d/0xdb0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1929
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:724
____sys_sendmsg+0x6e8/0x810 net/socket.c:2409
___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2463
__sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2492
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd7ddc462b9c2d31eb5a9926a2cc63eaa3e9f52

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08d7056e8e250fd2e67dbea5be5fdecdd75bf6b4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26af64d71b6277841285fa40e3f7164a378dfda9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d07098f45be868a9cdce6c616563c36c64dbbd87

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c951a3be5e8803e93bb49a0aca0d30457d3c1b67

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acff2d182c0768a713cee77442caeb07668bd68f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb58cd7991747b5e0b110c98c922d7b0e47a1f14

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/560ee196fe9e5037e5015e2cdb14b3aecb1cd7dc

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