bpf: Fix too early release of tcx_entry

Pedro Pinto and later independently also Hyunwoo Kim and Wongi Lee reported
an issue that the tcx_entry can be released too early leading to a use
after free (UAF) when an active old-style ingress or clsact qdisc with a
shared tc block is later replaced by another ingress or clsact instance.

Essentially, the sequence to trigger the UAF (one example) can be as follows:

  1. A network namespace is created
  2. An ingress qdisc is created. This allocates a tcx_entry, and
     &tcx_entry->miniq is stored in the qdisc's miniqp->p_miniq. At the
     same time, a tcf block with index 1 is created.
  3. chain0 is attached to the tcf block. chain0 must be connected to
     the block linked to the ingress qdisc to later reach the function
     tcf_chain0_head_change_cb_del() which triggers the UAF.
  4. Create and graft a clsact qdisc. This causes the ingress qdisc
     created in step 1 to be removed, thus freeing the previously linked
     tcx_entry:

     rtnetlink_rcv_msg()
       => tc_modify_qdisc()
         => qdisc_create()
           => clsact_init() [a]
         => qdisc_graft()
           => qdisc_destroy()
             => __qdisc_destroy()
               => ingress_destroy() [b]
                 => tcx_entry_free()
                   => kfree_rcu() // tcx_entry freed

  5. Finally, the network namespace is closed. This registers the
     cleanup_net worker, and during the process of releasing the
     remaining clsact qdisc, it accesses the tcx_entry that was
     already freed in step 4, causing the UAF to occur:

     cleanup_net()
       => ops_exit_list()
         => default_device_exit_batch()
           => unregister_netdevice_many()
             => unregister_netdevice_many_notify()
               => dev_shutdown()
                 => qdisc_put()
                   => clsact_destroy() [c]
                     => tcf_block_put_ext()
                       => tcf_chain0_head_change_cb_del()
                         => tcf_chain_head_change_item()
                           => clsact_chain_head_change()
                             => mini_qdisc_pair_swap() // UAF

There are also other variants, the gist is to add an ingress (or clsact)
qdisc with a specific shared block, then to replace that qdisc, waiting
for the tcx_entry kfree_rcu() to be executed and subsequently accessing
the current active qdisc's miniq one way or another.

The correct fix is to turn the miniq_active boolean into a counter. What
can be observed, at step 2 above, the counter transitions from 0->1, at
step [a] from 1->2 (in order for the miniq object to remain active during
the replacement), then in [b] from 2->1 and finally [c] 1->0 with the
eventual release. The reference counter in general ranges from [0,2] and
it does not need to be atomic since all access to the counter is protected
by the rtnl mutex. With this in place, there is no longer a UAF happening
and the tcx_entry is freed at the correct time.

Fixes: e420bed02507 ("bpf: Add fd-based tcx multi-prog infra with link support")
Reported-by: Pedro Pinto <xten@osec.io>
Co-developed-by: Pedro Pinto <xten@osec.io>
Signed-off-by: Pedro Pinto <xten@osec.io>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Hyunwoo Kim <v4bel@theori.io>
Cc: Wongi Lee <qwerty@theori.io>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240708133130.11609-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcx.h b/include/net/tcx.h
index 72a3e75e539f..5ce0ce9e0c02 100644
--- a/include/net/tcx.h
+++ b/include/net/tcx.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ struct mini_Qdisc;
 struct tcx_entry {
 	struct mini_Qdisc __rcu *miniq;
 	struct bpf_mprog_bundle bundle;
-	bool miniq_active;
+	u32 miniq_active;
 	struct rcu_head rcu;
 };
 
@@ -125,11 +125,16 @@ static inline void tcx_skeys_dec(bool ingress)
 	tcx_dec();
 }
 
-static inline void tcx_miniq_set_active(struct bpf_mprog_entry *entry,
-					const bool active)
+static inline void tcx_miniq_inc(struct bpf_mprog_entry *entry)
 {
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
-	tcx_entry(entry)->miniq_active = active;
+	tcx_entry(entry)->miniq_active++;
+}
+
+static inline void tcx_miniq_dec(struct bpf_mprog_entry *entry)
+{
+	ASSERT_RTNL();
+	tcx_entry(entry)->miniq_active--;
 }
 
 static inline bool tcx_entry_is_active(struct bpf_mprog_entry *entry)