net: fix IP early demux races

David Wilder reported crashes caused by dst reuse.

<quote David>
  I am seeing a crash on a distro V4.2.3 kernel caused by a double
  release of a dst_entry.  In ipv4_dst_destroy() the call to
  list_empty() finds a poisoned next pointer, indicating the dst_entry
  has already been removed from the list and freed. The crash occurs
  18 to 24 hours into a run of a network stress exerciser.
</quote>

Thanks to his detailed report and analysis, we were able to understand
the core issue.

IP early demux can associate a dst to skb, after a lookup in TCP/UDP
sockets.

When socket cache is not properly set, we want to store into
sk->sk_dst_cache the dst for future IP early demux lookups,
by acquiring a stable refcount on the dst.

Problem is this acquisition is simply using an atomic_inc(),
which works well, unless the dst was queued for destruction from
dst_release() noticing dst refcount went to zero, if DST_NOCACHE
was set on dst.

We need to make sure current refcount is not zero before incrementing
it, or risk double free as David reported.

This patch, being a stable candidate, adds two new helpers, and use
them only from IP early demux problematic paths.

It might be possible to merge in net-next skb_dst_force() and
skb_dst_force_safe(), but I prefer having the smallest patch for stable
kernels : Maybe some skb_dst_force() callers do not expect skb->dst
can suddenly be cleared.

Can probably be backported back to linux-3.6 kernels

Reported-by: David J. Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: David J. Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 1279f9b09791..c7329dcd90cc 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -322,6 +322,39 @@ static inline void skb_dst_force(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * dst_hold_safe - Take a reference on a dst if possible
+ * @dst: pointer to dst entry
+ *
+ * This helper returns false if it could not safely
+ * take a reference on a dst.
+ */
+static inline bool dst_hold_safe(struct dst_entry *dst)
+{
+	if (dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE)
+		return atomic_inc_not_zero(&dst->__refcnt);
+	dst_hold(dst);
+	return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * skb_dst_force_safe - makes sure skb dst is refcounted
+ * @skb: buffer
+ *
+ * If dst is not yet refcounted and not destroyed, grab a ref on it.
+ */
+static inline void skb_dst_force_safe(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (skb_dst_is_noref(skb)) {
+		struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
+
+		if (!dst_hold_safe(dst))
+			dst = NULL;
+
+		skb->_skb_refdst = (unsigned long)dst;
+	}
+}
+
 
 /**
  *	__skb_tunnel_rx - prepare skb for rx reinsert
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index c4205e0a3a2d..28790fe18206 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ void sk_stream_write_space(struct sock *sk);
 static inline void __sk_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	/* dont let skb dst not refcounted, we are going to leave rcu lock */
-	skb_dst_force(skb);
+	skb_dst_force_safe(skb);
 
 	if (!sk->sk_backlog.tail)
 		sk->sk_backlog.head = skb;