linux/net/sunrpc
NeilBrown 6fc6cae43a SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages.
[ Upstream commit 1cded9d297 ]

There are two problems with refcounting of auth_gss messages.

First, the reference on the pipe->pipe list (taken by a call
to rpc_queue_upcall()) is not counted.  It seems to be
assumed that a message in pipe->pipe will always also be in
pipe->in_downcall, where it is correctly reference counted.

However there is no guaranty of this.  I have a report of a
NULL dereferences in rpc_pipe_read() which suggests a msg
that has been freed is still on the pipe->pipe list.

One way I imagine this might happen is:
- message is queued for uid=U and auth->service=S1
- rpc.gssd reads this message and starts processing.
  This removes the message from pipe->pipe
- message is queued for uid=U and auth->service=S2
- rpc.gssd replies to the first message. gss_pipe_downcall()
  calls __gss_find_upcall(pipe, U, NULL) and it finds the
  *second* message, as new messages are placed at the head
  of ->in_downcall, and the service type is not checked.
- This second message is removed from ->in_downcall and freed
  by gss_release_msg() (even though it is still on pipe->pipe)
- rpc.gssd tries to read another message, and dereferences a pointer
  to this message that has just been freed.

I fix this by incrementing the reference count before calling
rpc_queue_upcall(), and decrementing it if that fails, or normally in
gss_pipe_destroy_msg().

It seems strange that the reply doesn't target the message more
precisely, but I don't know all the details.  In any case, I think the
reference counting irregularity became a measureable bug when the
extra arg was added to __gss_find_upcall(), hence the Fixes: line
below.

The second problem is that if rpc_queue_upcall() fails, the new
message is not freed. gss_alloc_msg() set the ->count to 1,
gss_add_msg() increments this to 2, gss_unhash_msg() decrements to 1,
then the pointer is discarded so the memory never gets freed.

Fixes: 9130b8dbc6 ("SUNRPC: allow for upcalls for same uid but different gss service")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1011250
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
History 2017-01-15 09:49:51 -05:00
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auth_gss SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages. 2017-01-15 09:49:51 -05:00
xprtrdma svcrdma: Fix send_reply() scatter/gather set-up 2015-10-27 22:13:29 -04:00
addr.c replace strict_strto calls 2014-07-12 18:45:49 -04:00
auth.c SUNRPC: remove all refcounting of groupinfo from rpcauth_lookupcred 2014-08-04 09:22:08 -04:00
auth_generic.c sunrpc/auth: allow lockless (rcu) lookup of credential cache. 2014-08-03 17:14:12 -04:00
auth_null.c sunrpc/auth: allow lockless (rcu) lookup of credential cache. 2014-08-03 17:14:12 -04:00
auth_unix.c SUNRPC refactor rpcauth_checkverf error returns 2013-09-03 15:25:09 -04:00
backchannel_rqst.c SUNRPC: Fix a memory leak in the backchannel code 2015-07-03 23:02:23 -04:00
bc_svc.c SUNRPC: remove BUG_ON from bc_send 2012-11-04 14:43:41 -05:00
cache.c sunrpc/cache: drop reference when sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() detects a race 2016-07-12 08:47:59 -04:00
clnt.c nfsd4/rpc: move backchannel create logic into rpc code 2016-07-12 08:46:52 -04:00
Kconfig xprtrdma: add separate Kconfig options for NFSoRDMA client and server support 2014-03-28 18:02:12 -04:00
Makefile xprtrdma: add separate Kconfig options for NFSoRDMA client and server support 2014-03-28 18:02:12 -04:00
netns.h Merge branch 'for-3.14' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2014-01-30 10:18:43 -08:00
rpc_pipe.c rpc_pipe: Drop memory allocation cast 2014-07-12 18:43:44 -04:00
rpcb_clnt.c SUNRPC: NULL utsname dereference on NFS umount during namespace cleanup 2015-03-06 14:52:58 -08:00
sched.c NFS/SUNRPC: Remove other deadlock-avoidance mechanisms in nfs_release_page() 2014-09-25 08:25:47 -04:00
socklib.c net: Save software checksum complete 2014-06-11 15:46:13 -07:00
stats.c SUNRPC: Deprecate rpc_client->cl_protname 2013-08-30 09:19:34 -04:00
sunrpc.h SUNRPC: track whether a request is coming from a loop-back interface. 2014-05-22 15:59:18 -04:00
sunrpc_syms.c sunrpc: create a new dummy pipe for gssd to hold open 2013-12-06 13:06:30 -05:00
svc.c SUNRPC: get rid of the request wait queue 2014-08-17 12:00:11 -04:00
svc_xprt.c SUNRPC: Fix compile on non-x86 2014-08-28 15:51:35 -04:00
svcauth.c nfsd4: better reservation of head space for krb5 2014-05-30 17:32:17 -04:00
svcauth_unix.c svcrpc: fix failures to handle -1 uid's 2013-07-08 17:27:23 -04:00
svcsock.c SUNRPC: Fix locking around callback channel reply receive 2014-11-19 12:03:20 -05:00
sysctl.c net: Convert uses of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2013-06-13 02:36:09 -07:00
timer.c net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int 2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
xdr.c rpc: fix xdr_truncate_encode to handle buffer ending on page boundary 2015-01-16 06:59:55 -08:00
xprt.c NFS client updates for Linux 3.17 2014-08-13 18:13:19 -06:00
xprtsock.c NFS/SUNRPC: Remove other deadlock-avoidance mechanisms in nfs_release_page() 2014-09-25 08:25:47 -04:00