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macsec: fix UAF bug for real_dev
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Create a new macsec device but not get reference to real_dev. That can
not ensure that real_dev is freed after macsec. That will trigger the
UAF bug for real_dev as following:

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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in macsec_get_iflink+0x5f/0x70 drivers/net/macsec.c:3662
Call Trace:
 ...
 macsec_get_iflink+0x5f/0x70 drivers/net/macsec.c:3662
 dev_get_iflink+0x73/0xe0 net/core/dev.c:637
 default_operstate net/core/link_watch.c:42 [inline]
 rfc2863_policy+0x233/0x2d0 net/core/link_watch.c:54
 linkwatch_do_dev+0x2a/0x150 net/core/link_watch.c:161

Allocated by task 22209:
 ...
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x98/0x1100 net/core/dev.c:10549
 rtnl_create_link+0x9d7/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3235
 veth_newlink+0x20e/0xa90 drivers/net/veth.c:1748

Freed by task 8:
 ...
 kfree+0xd6/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4552
 kvfree+0x42/0x50 mm/util.c:615
 device_release+0x9f/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2229
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:673 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:704 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x1c8/0x540 lib/kobject.c:721
 netdev_run_todo+0x72e/0x10b0 net/core/dev.c:10327

After commit faab39f ("net: allow out-of-order netdev unregistration")
and commit e5f80fc ("ipv6: give an IPv6 dev to blackhole_netdev"), we
can add dev_hold_track() in macsec_dev_init() and dev_put_track() in
macsec_free_netdev() to fix the problem.

Fixes: 2bce1eb ("macsec: fix refcnt leak in module exit routine")
Reported-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ziyang Xuan <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
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Ziyang Xuan authored and Paolo Abeni committed Jun 1, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ struct pcpu_secy_stats {
* struct macsec_dev - private data
* @secy: SecY config
* @real_dev: pointer to underlying netdevice
* @dev_tracker: refcount tracker for @real_dev reference
* @stats: MACsec device stats
* @secys: linked list of SecY's on the underlying device
* @gro_cells: pointer to the Generic Receive Offload cell
Expand All @@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ struct pcpu_secy_stats {
struct macsec_dev {
struct macsec_secy secy;
struct net_device *real_dev;
netdevice_tracker dev_tracker;
struct pcpu_secy_stats __percpu *stats;
struct list_head secys;
struct gro_cells gro_cells;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3459,6 +3461,9 @@ static int macsec_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
if (is_zero_ether_addr(dev->broadcast))
memcpy(dev->broadcast, real_dev->broadcast, dev->addr_len);

/* Get macsec's reference to real_dev */
dev_hold_track(real_dev, &macsec->dev_tracker, GFP_KERNEL);

return 0;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3704,6 +3709,8 @@ static void macsec_free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
free_percpu(macsec->stats);
free_percpu(macsec->secy.tx_sc.stats);

/* Get rid of the macsec's reference to real_dev */
dev_put_track(macsec->real_dev, &macsec->dev_tracker);
}

static void macsec_setup(struct net_device *dev)
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