[lvc-project] [PATCH] udp6: Fix race condition in udp6_sendmsg & connect

[Vlad Efanov]

Thank you for detail information.

The patch is reworked and being tested now.


Vlad.

On 26.05.2023 21:13, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-05-26 at 18:58 +0300, Ефанов Владислав Александрович
> wrote:
>> I don't think that we can just move sk_dst_set() call.
>>
>> I think we can destroy dst of sendmsg task in this case.
> AFAICS ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow tries to acquire a reference to the
> cached dst. If the connect() clears the cache, decreasing the refcnt,
> the counter of the dst in use by sendmsg() must still be non zero.
>
> IMHO the problem you see is that sk_setup_caps() keeps using the dst
> after transferring the ownership to the dst cache, which is illegal.
> The suggested patch addressed that.
>
> If I'm wrong your syzkaller repro will keep splatting. Please have just
> have a spin, thanks.
>
> Paolo
>