ACK: [SRU][Trusty][Zesty][PATCH 1/1] scsi: scsi_transport_iscsi: fix the issue that iscsi_if_rx doesn't parse nlmsg properly

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Thu Dec 7 14:25:36 UTC 2017


On 07/12/17 14:23, Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
> From: Xin Long <lucien.xin at gmail.com>
> 
> ChunYu found a kernel crash by syzkaller:
> 
> [  651.617875] kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
> [  651.618217] kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
> [  651.618731] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
> [  651.621543] CPU: 1 PID: 9539 Comm: scsi Not tainted 4.11.0.cov #32
> [  651.621938] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
> [  651.622309] task: ffff880117780000 task.stack: ffff8800a3188000
> [  651.622762] RIP: 0010:skb_release_data+0x26c/0x590
> [...]
> [  651.627260] Call Trace:
> [  651.629156]  skb_release_all+0x4f/0x60
> [  651.629450]  consume_skb+0x1a5/0x600
> [  651.630705]  netlink_unicast+0x505/0x720
> [  651.632345]  netlink_sendmsg+0xab2/0xe70
> [  651.633704]  sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x110
> [  651.633942]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x833/0x980
> [  651.637117]  __sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x240
> [  651.638820]  SyS_sendmsg+0x32/0x50
> [  651.639048]  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
> 
> It's caused by skb_shared_info at the end of sk_buff was overwritten by
> ISCSI_KEVENT_IF_ERROR when parsing nlmsg info from skb in iscsi_if_rx.
> 
> During the loop if skb->len == nlh->nlmsg_len and both are sizeof(*nlh),
> ev = nlmsg_data(nlh) will acutally get skb_shinfo(SKB) instead and set a
> new value to skb_shinfo(SKB)->nr_frags by ev->type.
> 
> This patch is to fix it by checking nlh->nlmsg_len properly there to
> avoid over accessing sk_buff.
> 
> Reported-by: ChunYu Wang <chunwang at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin at gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Chris Leech <cleech at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
> 
> CVE-2017-14489
> (cherry picked from commit c88f0e6b06f4092995688211a631bb436125d77b)
> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
> index 8934f19bce8e..0190aeff5f7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
> @@ -3689,7 +3689,7 @@ iscsi_if_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  		uint32_t group;
>  
>  		nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
> -		if (nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) ||
> +		if (nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) + sizeof(*ev) ||
>  		    skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len) {
>  			break;
>  		}
> 
Clean upstream cherry pick, does what it says.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>




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