ACK: [Yakkety SRU PATCH 1/2] sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Mar 27 14:19:01 UTC 2017


On 21.03.2017 20:53, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com>
> 
> Alexander Popov reported that an application may trigger a BUG_ON in
> sctp_wait_for_sndbuf if the socket tx buffer is full, a thread is
> waiting on it to queue more data and meanwhile another thread peels off
> the association being used by the first thread.
> 
> This patch replaces the BUG_ON call with a proper error handling. It
> will return -EPIPE to the original sendmsg call, similarly to what would
> have been done if the association wasn't found in the first place.
> 
> Acked-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov at linux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> (cherry picked from commit 2dcab598484185dea7ec22219c76dcdd59e3cb90)
> CVE-2017-5986
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
> ---
>  net/sctp/socket.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
> index 7b0e059..6a7b695 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/socket.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
> @@ -7425,7 +7425,8 @@ static int sctp_wait_for_sndbuf(struct sctp_association *asoc, long *timeo_p,
>  		 */
>  		release_sock(sk);
>  		current_timeo = schedule_timeout(current_timeo);
> -		BUG_ON(sk != asoc->base.sk);
> +		if (sk != asoc->base.sk)
> +			goto do_error;
>  		lock_sock(sk);
>  
>  		*timeo_p = current_timeo;
> 


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