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Quentin Casasnovas b8ff93b544 RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket ...

commit 8c7188b234 upstream.

Sasha's found a NULL pointer dereference in the RDS connection code when
sending a message to an apparently unbound socket.  The problem is caused
by the code checking if the socket is bound in rds_sendmsg(), which checks
the rs_bound_addr field without taking a lock on the socket.  This opens a
race where rs_bound_addr is temporarily set but where the transport is not
in rds_bind(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference when trying to
dereference 'trans' in __rds_conn_create().

Vegard wrote a reproducer for this issue, so kindly ask him to share if
you're interested.

I cannot reproduce the NULL pointer dereference using Vegard's reproducer
with this patch, whereas I could without.

Complete earlier incomplete fix to CVE-2015-6937:

  74e98eb085 ("RDS: verify the underlying transport exists before creating a connection")

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Cc: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>

2016-01-04 17:20:35 +00:00

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