Patch "vti: fix use after free in vti_tunnel_xmit/vti6_tnl_xmit" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

vti: fix use after free in vti_tunnel_xmit/vti6_tnl_xmit

to the 3.18-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:
vti-fix-use-after-free-in-vti_tunnel_xmit-vti6_tnl_xmit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

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

From: Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:14:29 +0300
Subject: vti: fix use after free in vti_tunnel_xmit/vti6_tnl_xmit

From: Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 36f6ee22d2d66046e369757ec6bbe1c482957ba6 ]

When running LTP IPsec tests, KASan might report:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vti_tunnel_xmit+0xeee/0xff0 [ip_vti]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff880dc6ad1980 by task swapper/0/0
...
Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  dump_stack+0x63/0x89
  print_address_description+0x7c/0x290
  kasan_report+0x28d/0x370
  ? vti_tunnel_xmit+0xeee/0xff0 [ip_vti]
  __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x19/0x20
  vti_tunnel_xmit+0xeee/0xff0 [ip_vti]
  ? vti_init_net+0x190/0x190 [ip_vti]
  ? save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
  ? save_stack+0x46/0xd0
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x147/0x510
  ? icmp_echo.part.24+0x1f0/0x210
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x1394/0x1c60
...
Freed by task 0:
  save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
  save_stack+0x46/0xd0
  kasan_slab_free+0x70/0xc0
  kmem_cache_free+0x81/0x1e0
  kfree_skbmem+0xb1/0xe0
  kfree_skb+0x75/0x170
  kfree_skb_list+0x3e/0x60
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x1298/0x1c60
  dev_queue_xmit+0x10/0x20
  neigh_resolve_output+0x3a8/0x740
  ip_finish_output2+0x5c0/0xe70
  ip_finish_output+0x4ba/0x680
  ip_output+0x1c1/0x3a0
  xfrm_output_resume+0xc65/0x13d0
  xfrm_output+0x1e4/0x380
  xfrm4_output_finish+0x5c/0x70

Can be fixed if we get skb->len before dst_output().

---
 net/ipv4/ip_vti.c  |    3 ++-
 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vti_xmit(struct sk_bu
 	struct ip_tunnel_parm *parms = &tunnel->parms;
 	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
 	struct net_device *tdev;	/* Device to other host */
+	int pkt_len = skb->len;
 	int err;
 
 	if (!dst) {

@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vti_xmit(struct sk_bu
 
 	err = dst_output(skb);
 	if (net_xmit_eval(err) == 0)
-		err = skb->len;
+		err = pkt_len;
 	iptunnel_xmit_stats(err, &dev->stats, dev->tstats);
 	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 

@@ -416,6 +416,7 @@ vti6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ne
 	struct net_device_stats *stats = &t->dev->stats;
 	struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
 	struct net_device *tdev;
+	int pkt_len = skb->len;
 	int err = -1;
 
 	if (!dst)

@@ -450,7 +451,7 @@ vti6_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ne
 		struct pcpu_sw_netstats *tstats = this_cpu_ptr(dev->tstats);
 
 		u64_stats_update_begin(&tstats->syncp);
-		tstats->tx_bytes += skb->len;
+		tstats->tx_bytes += pkt_len;
 		tstats->tx_packets++;
 		u64_stats_update_end(&tstats->syncp);
 	} else {

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

queue-3.18/vti-fix-use-after-free-in-vti_tunnel_xmit-vti6_tnl_xmit.patch