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l2tp: fix possible UAF when cleaning up tunnels

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syzbot reported a UAF caused by a race when the L2TP work queue closes a
tunnel at the same time as a userspace thread closes a session in that
tunnel.

Tunnel cleanup is handled by a work queue which iterates through the
sessions contained within a tunnel, and closes them in turn.

Meanwhile, a userspace thread may arbitrarily close a session via
either netlink command or by closing the pppox socket in the case of
l2tp_ppp.

The race condition may occur when l2tp_tunnel_closeall walks the list
of sessions in the tunnel and deletes each one.  Currently this is
implemented using list_for_each_safe, but because the list spinlock is
dropped in the loop body it's possible for other threads to manipulate
the list during list_for_each_safe's list walk.  This can lead to the
list iterator being corrupted, leading to list_for_each_safe spinning.
One sequence of events which may lead to this is as follows:

 * A tunnel is created, containing two sessions A and B.
 * A thread closes the tunnel, triggering tunnel cleanup via the work
   queue.
 * l2tp_tunnel_closeall runs in the context of the work queue.  It
   removes session A from the tunnel session list, then drops the list
   lock.  At this point the list_for_each_safe temporary variable is
   pointing to the other session on the list, which is session B, and
   the list can be manipulated by other threads since the list lock has
   been released.
 * Userspace closes session B, which removes the session from its parent
   tunnel via l2tp_session_delete.  Since l2tp_tunnel_closeall has
   released the tunnel list lock, l2tp_session_delete is able to call
   list_del_init on the session B list node.
 * Back on the work queue, l2tp_tunnel_closeall resumes execution and
   will now spin forever on the same list entry until the underlying
   session structure is freed, at which point UAF occurs.

The solution is to iterate over the tunnel's session list using
list_first_entry_not_null to avoid the possibility of the list
iterator pointing at a list item which may be removed during the walk.

Also, have l2tp_tunnel_closeall ref each session while it processes it
to prevent another thread from freeing it.

	cpu1				cpu2
	---				---
					pppol2tp_release()

	spin_lock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);
	for (;;) {
		session = list_first_entry_or_null(&tunnel->session_list,
						   struct l2tp_session, list);
		if (!session)
			break;
		list_del_init(&session->list);
		spin_unlock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);

 					l2tp_session_delete(session);

		l2tp_session_delete(session);
		spin_lock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);
	}
	spin_unlock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);

Calling l2tp_session_delete on the same session twice isn't a problem
per-se, but if cpu2 manages to destruct the socket and unref the
session to zero before cpu1 progresses then it would lead to UAF.

Reported-by: syzbot+b471b7c936301a59745b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+c041b4ce3a6dfd1e63e2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: d18d3f0a24 ("l2tp: replace hlist with simple list for per-tunnel session list")
Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Parkin <tparkin@katalix.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240704152508.1923908-1-jchapman@katalix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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James Chapman 2024-07-04 16:25:08 +01:00 committed by Paolo Abeni
parent 06cd3d4bb3
commit f8ad00f3fb
1 changed files with 7 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -1289,17 +1289,20 @@ static void l2tp_session_unhash(struct l2tp_session *session)
static void l2tp_tunnel_closeall(struct l2tp_tunnel *tunnel)
{
struct l2tp_session *session;
struct list_head *pos;
struct list_head *tmp;
spin_lock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);
tunnel->acpt_newsess = false;
list_for_each_safe(pos, tmp, &tunnel->session_list) {
session = list_entry(pos, struct l2tp_session, list);
for (;;) {
session = list_first_entry_or_null(&tunnel->session_list,
struct l2tp_session, list);
if (!session)
break;
l2tp_session_inc_refcount(session);
list_del_init(&session->list);
spin_unlock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);
l2tp_session_delete(session);
spin_lock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);
l2tp_session_dec_refcount(session);
}
spin_unlock_bh(&tunnel->list_lock);
}