Patch "tcp: fix NULL deref in tcp_v4_send_ack()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

tcp: fix NULL deref in tcp_v4_send_ack()

to the 4.4-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:
tcp-fix-null-deref-in-tcp_v4_send_ack.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:02:54 -0800
Subject: tcp: fix NULL deref in tcp_v4_send_ack()

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit e62a123b8ef7c5dc4db2c16383d506860ad21b47 ]

Neal reported crashes with this stack trace :

 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8c57231b>] tcp_v4_send_ack+0x41/0x20f
...
 CR2: 0000000000000018 CR3: 000000044005c000 CR4: 00000000001427e0
...
  [<ffffffff8c57258e>] tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack+0xa5/0xb4
  [<ffffffff8c1a7caa>] tcp_check_req+0x2ea/0x3e0
  [<ffffffff8c19e420>] tcp_rcv_state_process+0x850/0x2500
  [<ffffffff8c1a6d21>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x141/0x330
  [<ffffffff8c56cdb2>] sk_backlog_rcv+0x21/0x30
  [<ffffffff8c098bbd>] tcp_recvmsg+0x75d/0xf90
  [<ffffffff8c0a8700>] inet_recvmsg+0x80/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8c17623e>] sock_aio_read+0xee/0x110
  [<ffffffff8c066fcf>] do_sync_read+0x6f/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8c0673a1>] SyS_read+0x1e1/0x290
  [<ffffffff8c5ca262>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The problem here is the skb we provide to tcp_v4_send_ack() had to be parked in the backlog of a new TCP fastopen child because this child was owned by the user at the time an out of window packet arrived.

Before queuing a packet, TCP has to set skb->dev to NULL as the device could disappear before packet is removed from the queue.

Fix this issue by using the net pointer provided by the socket (being a timewait or a request socket).

IPv6 is immune to the bug : tcp_v6_send_response() already gets the net pointer from the socket if provided.

---
 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

@@ -705,7 +705,8 @@ release_sk1:
    outside socket context is ugly, certainly. What can I do?
  */
 
-static void tcp_v4_send_ack(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 seq, u32 ack,
+static void tcp_v4_send_ack(struct net *net,
+			    struct sk_buff *skb, u32 seq, u32 ack,
 			    u32 win, u32 tsval, u32 tsecr, int oif,
 			    struct tcp_md5sig_key *key,
 			    int reply_flags, u8 tos)

@@ -720,7 +721,6 @@ static void tcp_v4_send_ack(struct sk_bu
 			];
 	} rep;
 	struct ip_reply_arg arg;
-	struct net *net = dev_net(skb_dst(skb)->dev);
 
 	memset(&rep.th, 0, sizeof(struct tcphdr));
 	memset(&arg, 0, sizeof(arg));

@@ -782,7 +782,8 @@ static void tcp_v4_timewait_ack(struct s
 	struct inet_timewait_sock *tw = inet_twsk(sk);
 	struct tcp_timewait_sock *tcptw = tcp_twsk(sk);
 
-	tcp_v4_send_ack(skb, tcptw->tw_snd_nxt, tcptw->tw_rcv_nxt,
+	tcp_v4_send_ack(sock_net(sk), skb,
+			tcptw->tw_snd_nxt, tcptw->tw_rcv_nxt,
 			tcptw->tw_rcv_wnd >> tw->tw_rcv_wscale,
 			tcp_time_stamp + tcptw->tw_ts_offset,
 			tcptw->tw_ts_recent,

@@ -801,8 +802,10 @@ static void tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack(const
 	/* sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN -> for regular TCP_SYN_RECV
 	 * sk->sk_state == TCP_SYN_RECV -> for Fast Open.
 	 */
-	tcp_v4_send_ack(skb, (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN) ?
-			tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn + 1 : tcp_sk(sk)->snd_nxt,
+	u32 seq = (sk->sk_state == TCP_LISTEN) ? tcp_rsk(req)->snt_isn + 1 :
+					     tcp_sk(sk)->snd_nxt;
+
+	tcp_v4_send_ack(sock_net(sk), skb, seq,
 			tcp_rsk(req)->rcv_nxt, req->rsk_rcv_wnd,
 			tcp_time_stamp,
 			req->ts_recent,

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

queue-4.4/ipv4-fix-memory-leaks-in-ip_cmsg_send-callers.patch queue-4.4/tcp-dccp-fix-another-race-at-listener-dismantle.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-fix-a-lockdep-splat.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-addrconf-fix-recursive-spin-lock-call.patch queue-4.4/tcp-do-not-drop-syn_recv-on-all-icmp-reports.patch queue-4.4/tcp-beware-of-alignments-in-tcp_get_info.patch queue-4.4/tcp-md5-release-request-socket-instead-of-listener.patch queue-4.4/gro-make-gro-aware-of-lightweight-tunnels.patch queue-4.4/tcp-fix-null-deref-in-tcp_v4_send_ack.patch queue-4.4/af_unix-fix-struct-pid-memory-leak.patch queue-4.4/net-add-sysctl_max_skb_frags.patch