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authorAntoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>2021-12-03 13:13:18 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-12-17 12:14:41 +0300
commit7c26da3be1e9843a15b5318f90db8a564479d2ac (patch)
treecdb08eaee6fe5e2fc8e40b2f01f300057b41a57a /net/ethtool
parent6992d8c215c872c208b895fba1e13e07c8c94a83 (diff)
downloadlinux-7c26da3be1e9843a15b5318f90db8a564479d2ac.tar.xz
ethtool: do not perform operations on net devices being unregistered
commit dde91ccfa25fd58f64c397d91b81a4b393100ffa upstream. There is a short period between a net device starts to be unregistered and when it is actually gone. In that time frame ethtool operations could still be performed, which might end up in unwanted or undefined behaviours[1]. Do not allow ethtool operations after a net device starts its unregistration. This patch targets the netlink part as the ioctl one isn't affected: the reference to the net device is taken and the operation is executed within an rtnl lock section and the net device won't be found after unregister. [1] For example adding Tx queues after unregister ends up in NULL pointer exceptions and UaFs, such as: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_get+0x14/0x90 Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801961248c by task ethtool/755 CPU: 0 PID: 755 Comm: ethtool Not tainted 5.15.0-rc6+ #778 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x72 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x140 kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b kobject_get+0x14/0x90 kobject_add_internal+0x3d1/0x450 kobject_init_and_add+0xba/0xf0 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0xcf/0x200 netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0xb4/0x310 veth_set_channels+0x1c3/0x550 ethnl_set_channels+0x524/0x610 Fixes: 041b1c5d4a53 ("ethtool: helper functions for netlink interface") Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203101318.435618-1-atenart@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ethtool')
-rw-r--r--net/ethtool/netlink.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethtool/netlink.h b/net/ethtool/netlink.h
index d8efec516d86..979dee6bb88c 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/netlink.h
+++ b/net/ethtool/netlink.h
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ struct ethnl_reply_data {
static inline int ethnl_ops_begin(struct net_device *dev)
{
+ if (dev && dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERING)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (dev && dev->ethtool_ops->begin)
return dev->ethtool_ops->begin(dev);
else