The previous commit 7ec02f5ac8 ("ax25: fix NPD bug in ax25_disconnect")
move ax25_disconnect into lock_sock() in order to prevent NPD bugs. But
there are race conditions that may lead to null pointer dereferences in
ax25_heartbeat_expiry(), ax25_t1timer_expiry(), ax25_t2timer_expiry(),
ax25_t3timer_expiry() and ax25_idletimer_expiry(), when we use
ax25_kill_by_device() to detach the ax25 device.
One of the race conditions that cause null pointer dereferences can be
shown as below:
(Thread 1) | (Thread 2)
ax25_connect() |
ax25_std_establish_data_link() |
ax25_start_t1timer() |
mod_timer(&ax25->t1timer,..) |
| ax25_kill_by_device()
(wait a time) | ...
| s->ax25_dev = NULL; //(1)
ax25_t1timer_expiry() |
ax25->ax25_dev->values[..] //(2)| ...
... |
We set null to ax25_cb->ax25_dev in position (1) and dereference
the null pointer in position (2).
The corresponding fail log is shown below:
===============================================================
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000050
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc6-00794-g45690b7d0
RIP: 0010:ax25_t1timer_expiry+0x12/0x40
...
Call Trace:
call_timer_fn+0x21/0x120
__run_timers.part.0+0x1ca/0x250
run_timer_softirq+0x2c/0x60
__do_softirq+0xef/0x2f3
irq_exit_rcu+0xb6/0x100
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa2/0xd0
...
This patch moves ax25_disconnect() before s->ax25_dev = NULL
and uses del_timer_sync() to delete timers in ax25_disconnect().
If ax25_disconnect() is called by ax25_kill_by_device() or
ax25->ax25_dev is NULL, the reason in ax25_disconnect() will be
equal to ENETUNREACH, it will wait all timers to stop before we
set null to s->ax25_dev in ax25_kill_by_device().
Fixes: 7ec02f5ac8 ("ax25: fix NPD bug in ax25_disconnect")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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