FAILED: patch "[PATCH] net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 4f61f133f354853bc394ec7d6028adb9b02dd701 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cezar Bulinaru <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 02:27:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net: tap: NULL pointer derefence in dev_parse_header_protocol
when skb->dev is null

Fixes a NULL pointer derefence bug triggered from tap driver. When tap_get_user calls virtio_net_hdr_to_skb the skb->dev is null (in tap.c skb->dev is set after the call to virtio_net_hdr_to_skb) virtio_net_hdr_to_skb calls dev_parse_header_protocol which needs skb->dev field to be valid.

The line that trigers the bug is in dev_parse_header_protocol (dev is at offset 0x10 from skb and is stored in RAX register)
if (!dev->header_ops || !dev->header_ops->parse_protocol)

  22e1:   mov    0x10(%rbx),%rax
  22e5:	  mov    0x230(%rax),%rax

Setting skb->dev before the call in tap.c fixes the issue.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000230
RIP: 0010:virtio_net_hdr_to_skb.constprop.0+0x335/0x410 [tap]
Code: c0 0f 85 b7 fd ff ff eb d4 41 39 c6 77 cf 29 c6 48 89 df 44 01 f6 e8 7a 79 83 c1 48 85 c0 0f 85 d9 fd ff ff eb b7 48 8b 43 10 <48> 8b 80 30 02 00 00 48 85 c0 74 55 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74 4c 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005c27c38 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888298f25300 RCX: 0000000000000010
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffc90005c27cb6 RDI: ffff888298f25300
RBP: ffffc90005c27c80 R08: 00000000ffffffea R09: 00000000000007e8
R10: ffff88858ec77458 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000014 R14: ffffc90005c27e08 R15: ffffc90005c27cb6
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88858ec40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000230 CR3: 0000000281408006 CR4: 00000000003706e0
Call Trace:
 tap_get_user+0x3f1/0x540 [tap]
 tap_sendmsg+0x56/0x362 [tap]
 ? get_tx_bufs+0xc2/0x1e0 [vhost_net]
 handle_tx_copy+0x114/0x670 [vhost_net]
 handle_tx+0xb0/0xe0 [vhost_net]
 handle_tx_kick+0x15/0x20 [vhost_net]
 vhost_worker+0x7b/0xc0 [vhost]
 ? vhost_vring_call_reset+0x40/0x40 [vhost]
 kthread+0xfa/0x120
 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

index c3d42062559d..9e75ed3f08ce 100644
@@ -716,10 +716,20 @@ static ssize_t tap_get_user(struct tap_queue *q, void *msg_control,
 	skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
 	skb->protocol = eth_hdr(skb)->h_proto;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	tap = rcu_dereference(q->tap);
+	if (!tap) {
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+		return total_len;
+	}
+	skb->dev = tap->dev;
+
 	if (vnet_hdr_len) {
 		err = virtio_net_hdr_to_skb(skb, &vnet_hdr,
 					    tap_is_little_endian(q));
 		if (err) {
+			rcu_read_unlock();
 			drop_reason = SKB_DROP_REASON_DEV_HDR;
 			goto err_kfree;
 		}

@@ -732,8 +742,6 @@ static ssize_t tap_get_user(struct tap_queue *q, void *msg_control,
 	    __vlan_get_protocol(skb, skb->protocol, &depth) != 0)
 		skb_set_network_header(skb, depth);
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	tap = rcu_dereference(q->tap);
 	/* copy skb_ubuf_info for callback when skb has no error */
 	if (zerocopy) {
 		skb_zcopy_init(skb, msg_control);

@@ -742,14 +750,8 @@ static ssize_t tap_get_user(struct tap_queue *q, void *msg_control,
 		uarg->callback(NULL, uarg, false);
 	}
 
-	if (tap) {
-		skb->dev = tap->dev;
-		dev_queue_xmit(skb);
-	} else {
-		kfree_skb(skb);
-	}
+	dev_queue_xmit(skb);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-
 	return total_len;
 
 err_kfree: