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Kuniyuki Iwashima f761eeefd5 Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod" 
commit 95d2b9f693 upstream.

This reverts commit e9f2517a3e.

Commit e9f2517a3e ("smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after
rmmod") is intended to fix a null-ptr-deref in LOCKDEP, which is
mentioned as CVE-2024-54680, but is actually did not fix anything;
The issue can be reproduced on top of it. [0]

Also, it reverted the change by commit ef7134c7fc ("smb: client:
Fix use-after-free of network namespace.") and introduced a real
issue by reviving the kernel TCP socket.

When a reconnect happens for a CIFS connection, the socket state
transitions to FIN_WAIT_1.  Then, inet_csk_clear_xmit_timers_sync()
in tcp_close() stops all timers for the socket.

If an incoming FIN packet is lost, the socket will stay at FIN_WAIT_1
forever, and such sockets could be leaked up to net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans.

Usually, FIN can be retransmitted by the peer, but if the peer aborts
the connection, the issue comes into reality.

I warned about this privately by pointing out the exact report [1],
but the bogus fix was finally merged.

So, we should not stop the timers to finally kill the connection on
our side in that case, meaning we must not use a kernel socket for
TCP whose sk->sk_net_refcnt is 0.

The kernel socket does not have a reference to its netns to make it
possible to tear down netns without cleaning up every resource in it.

For example, tunnel devices use a UDP socket internally, but we can
destroy netns without removing such devices and let it complete
during exit.  Otherwise, netns would be leaked when the last application
died.

However, this is problematic for TCP sockets because TCP has timers to
close the connection gracefully even after the socket is close()d.  The
lifetime of the socket and its netns is different from the lifetime of
the underlying connection.

If the socket user does not maintain the netns lifetime, the timer could
be fired after the socket is close()d and its netns is freed up, resulting
in use-after-free.

Actually, we have seen so many similar issues and converted such sockets
to have a reference to netns.

That's why I converted the CIFS client socket to have a reference to
netns (sk->sk_net_refcnt == 1), which is somehow mentioned as out-of-scope
of CIFS and technically wrong in e9f2517a3e, but **is in-scope and right
fix**.

Regarding the LOCKDEP issue, we can prevent the module unload by
bumping the module refcount when switching the LOCKDDEP key in
sock_lock_init_class_and_name(). [2]

For a while, let's revert the bogus fix.

Note that now we can use sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() for the socket
conversion, but I'll do so later separately to make backport easy.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250402020807.28583-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/ #[0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/c08bd5378da647a2a4c16698125d180a@huawei.com/ #[1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250402005841.19846-1-kuniyu@amazon.com/ #[2]
Fixes: e9f2517a3e ("smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-04-25 10:47:54 +02:00
arch riscv: KGDB: Remove ".option norvc/.option rvc" for kgdb_compiled_break 2025-04-25 10:47:48 +02:00
block block: integrity: Do not call set_page_dirty_lock() 2025-04-25 10:47:50 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix larval relookup type and mask 2025-04-10 14:39:20 +02:00
Documentation netlink: specs: rt-link: adjust mctp attribute naming 2025-04-25 10:47:45 +02:00
drivers loop: LOOP_SET_FD: send uevents for partitions 2025-04-25 10:47:52 +02:00
fs Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod" 2025-04-25 10:47:54 +02:00
include nfs: add missing selections of CONFIG_CRC32 2025-04-25 10:47:50 +02:00
init ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE 2025-04-10 14:39:40 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: reject zero sized provided buffers 2025-04-20 10:15:40 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix memleak if msg_init_ns failed in create_ipc_ns 2024-12-05 14:03:02 +01:00
kernel cpufreq/sched: Explicitly synchronize limits_changed flag handling 2025-04-25 10:47:52 +02:00
lib lib: scatterlist: fix sg_split_phys to preserve original scatterlist offsets 2025-04-20 10:15:45 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm: fix apply_to_existing_page_range() 2025-04-25 10:47:53 +02:00
net Bluetooth: l2cap: Process valid commands in too long frame 2025-04-25 10:47:51 +02:00
rust rust: Fix enabling Rust and building with GCC for LoongArch 2025-04-10 14:39:36 +02:00
samples rust: treewide: switch to the kernel Vec type 2025-03-13 13:01:46 +01:00
scripts rust: kbuild: use pound to support GNU Make < 4.3 2025-04-25 10:47:49 +02:00
security landlock: Prepare to add second errata 2025-04-20 10:15:56 +02:00
sound ASoC: qcom: Fix sc7280 lpass potential buffer overflow 2025-04-25 10:47:50 +02:00
tools objtool/rust: add one more noreturn Rust function for Rust 1.86.0 2025-04-25 10:47:48 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module 2025-04-20 10:15:54 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add entry for the Rust alloc module 2025-03-13 13:01:47 +01:00
Makefile rust: disable clippy::needless_continue 2025-04-25 10:47:49 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.