Vulnerability CVE-2024-41041
Published: 2024-07-29

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

udp: Set SOCK_RCU_FREE earlier in udp_lib_get_port().

syzkaller triggered the warning [0] in udp_v4_early_demux().

In udp_v[46]_early_demux() and sk_lookup(), we do not touch the refcount
of the looked-up sk and use sock_pfree() as skb->destructor, so we check
SOCK_RCU_FREE to ensure that the sk is safe to access during the RCU grace
period.

Currently, SOCK_RCU_FREE is flagged for a bound socket after being put
into the hash table. Moreover, the SOCK_RCU_FREE check is done too early
in udp_v[46]_early_demux() and sk_lookup(), so there could be a small race
window:

CPU1 CPU2
---- ----
udp_v4_early_demux() udp_lib_get_port()
| |- hlist_add_head_rcu()
|- sk = __udp4_lib_demux_lookup() |
|- DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(sk_is_refcounted(sk));
`- sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_RCU_FREE)

We had the same bug in TCP and fixed it in commit 871019b22d1b ("net:
set SOCK_RCU_FREE before inserting socket into hashtable").

Let's apply the same fix for UDP.

[0]:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11198 at net/ipv4/udp.c:2599 udp_v4_early_demux+0x481/0xb70 net/ipv4/udp.c:2599
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 11198 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 6.9.0-g93bda33046e7 #13
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:udp_v4_early_demux+0x481/0xb70 net/ipv4/udp.c:2599
Code: c5 7a 15 fe bb 01 00 00 00 44 89 e9 31 ff d3 e3 81 e3 bf ef ff ff 89 de e8 2c 74 15 fe 85 db 0f 85 02 06 00 00 e8 9f 7a 15 fe <0f> 0b e8 98 7a 15 fe 49 8d 7e 60 e8 4f 39 2f fe 49 c7 46 60 20 52
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000ce3fa58 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8318c92c
RDX: ffff888036ccde00 RSI: ffffffff8318c2f1 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88805a2dd6e0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0001ffffffffffff R12: ffff88805a2dd680
R13: 0000000000000007 R14: ffff88800923f900 R15: ffff88805456004e
FS: 00007fc449127640(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc449126e38 CR3: 000000003de4b002 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ip_rcv_finish_core.constprop.0+0xbdd/0xd20 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:349
ip_rcv_finish+0xda/0x150 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:447
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:308 [inline]
ip_rcv+0x16c/0x180 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:569
__netif_receive_skb_one_core+0xb3/0xe0 net/core/dev.c:5624
__netif_receive_skb+0x21/0xd0 net/core/dev.c:5738
netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:5824 [inline]
netif_receive_skb+0x271/0x300 net/core/dev.c:5884
tun_rx_batched drivers/net/tun.c:1549 [inline]
tun_get_user+0x24db/0x2c50 drivers/net/tun.c:2002
tun_chr_write_iter+0x107/0x1a0 drivers/net/tun.c:2048
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:497 [inline]
vfs_write+0x76f/0x8d0 fs/read_write.c:590
ksys_write+0xbf/0x190 fs/read_write.c:643
__do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline]
__se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline]
__x64_sys_write+0x41/0x50 fs/read_write.c:652
x64_sys_call+0xe66/0x1990 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x7fc44a68bc1f
Code: 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 10 89 7c 24 08 e8 e9 cf f5 ff 48 8b 54 24 18 48 8b 74 24 10 41 89 c0 8b 7c 24 08 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 31 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 3c d0 f5 ff 48
RSP: 002b:00007fc449126c90 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bc050 RCX: 00007fc44a68bc1f
R
---truncated---

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a67c4e47626e6daccda62888f8b096abb5d3940
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f965684c57c3117cfd2f754dd3270383c529fba
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddf516e50bf8a7bc9b3bd8a9831f9c7a8131a32a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6db0d3ea6536e7120871e5448b3032570152ec6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5fd77ca13d657c6e99bf04f0917445e6a80231e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20ceae10623c3b29fdf7609690849475bcdebdb0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c0b485a8c6116516f33925b9ce5b6104a6eadfd
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