Patch "vrf: Fix use-after-free in vrf_xmit" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

vrf: Fix use-after-free in vrf_xmit

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
vrf-fix-use-after-free-in-vrf_xmit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:53:04 -0800
Subject: vrf: Fix use-after-free in vrf_xmit

From: David Ahern <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit f7887d40e541f74402df0684a1463c0a0bb68c68 ]

KASAN detected a use-after-free:

[  269.467067] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vrf_xmit+0x7f1/0x827 [vrf] at addr ffff8800350a21c0
[  269.467067] Read of size 4 by task ssh/1879
[  269.467067] CPU: 1 PID: 1879 Comm: ssh Not tainted 4.10.0+ #249
[  269.467067] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[  269.467067] Call Trace:
[  269.467067]  dump_stack+0x81/0xb6
[  269.467067]  kasan_object_err+0x21/0x78
[  269.467067]  kasan_report+0x2f7/0x450
[  269.467067]  ? vrf_xmit+0x7f1/0x827 [vrf]
[  269.467067]  ? ip_output+0xa4/0xdb
[  269.467067]  __asan_load4+0x6b/0x6d
[  269.467067]  vrf_xmit+0x7f1/0x827 [vrf]

...

Which corresponds to the skb access after xmit handling. Fix by saving skb->len and using the saved value to update stats.

---
 drivers/net/vrf.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t is_ip_tx_frame(struct
 
 static netdev_tx_t vrf_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
+	int len = skb->len;
 	netdev_tx_t ret = is_ip_tx_frame(skb, dev);
 
 	if (likely(ret == NET_XMIT_SUCCESS || ret == NET_XMIT_CN)) {

@@ -353,7 +354,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vrf_xmit(struct sk_bu
 
 		u64_stats_update_begin(&dstats->syncp);
 		dstats->tx_pkts++;
-		dstats->tx_bytes += skb->len;
+		dstats->tx_bytes += len;
 		u64_stats_update_end(&dstats->syncp);
 	} else {
 		this_cpu_inc(dev->dstats->tx_drps);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/vrf-fix-use-after-free-in-vrf_xmit.patch queue-4.9/mpls-do-not-decrement-alive-counter-for-unregister-events.patch queue-4.9/mpls-send-route-delete-notifications-when-router-module-is-unloaded.patch