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Commit 8c7188b2 authored by Quentin Casasnovas's avatar Quentin Casasnovas Committed by David S. Miller
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RDS: fix race condition when sending a message on unbound socket

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:

  74e98eb0

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

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQuentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 20f79566
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