Patch "net: Fix use after free in the recvmmsg exit path" 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

net: Fix use after free in the recvmmsg exit path

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:
net-fix-use-after-free-in-the-recvmmsg-exit-path.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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:56:35 -0300
Subject: net: Fix use after free in the recvmmsg exit path

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 34b88a68f26a75e4fded796f1a49c40f82234b7d ]

The syzkaller fuzzer hit the following use-after-free:

  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff8175ea0e>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3e/0x40 mm/kasan/report.c:295
   [<ffffffff851cc31a>] __sys_recvmmsg+0x6fa/0x7f0 net/socket.c:2261
   [<     inline     >] SYSC_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2281
   [<ffffffff851cc57f>] SyS_recvmmsg+0x16f/0x180 net/socket.c:2270
   [<ffffffff86332bb6>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x7a
  arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:185

And, as Dmitry rightly assessed, that is because we can drop the reference and then touch it when the underlying recvmsg calls return some packets and then hit an error, which will make recvmmsg to set sock->sk->sk_err, oops, fix it.

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

---
 net/socket.c |   38 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

@@ -2238,31 +2238,31 @@ int __sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct mmsghd
 			break;
 	}
 
-out_put:
-	fput_light(sock->file, fput_needed);
-
 	if (err == 0)
-		return datagrams;
+		goto out_put;
+
+	if (datagrams == 0) {
+		datagrams = err;
+		goto out_put;
+	}
 
-	if (datagrams != 0) {
+	/*
+	 * We may return less entries than requested (vlen) if the
+	 * sock is non block and there aren't enough datagrams...
+	 */
+	if (err != -EAGAIN) {
 		/*
-		 * We may return less entries than requested (vlen) if the
-		 * sock is non block and there aren't enough datagrams...
+		 * ... or  if recvmsg returns an error after we
+		 * received some datagrams, where we record the
+		 * error to return on the next call or if the
+		 * app asks about it using getsockopt(SO_ERROR).
 		 */
-		if (err != -EAGAIN) {
-			/*
-			 * ... or  if recvmsg returns an error after we
-			 * received some datagrams, where we record the
-			 * error to return on the next call or if the
-			 * app asks about it using getsockopt(SO_ERROR).
-			 */
-			sock->sk->sk_err = -err;
-		}
-
-		return datagrams;
+		sock->sk->sk_err = -err;
 	}
+out_put:
+	fput_light(sock->file, fput_needed);
 
-	return err;
+	return datagrams;
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE5(recvmmsg, int, fd, struct mmsghdr __user *, mmsg,

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

queue-4.4/net-fix-use-after-free-in-the-recvmmsg-exit-path.patch