netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free

As suggested by Patrick McHardy, introduce a __krealloc() that doesn't
free the original buffer to fix a double-free and use-after-free bug
introduced by me in netfilter that uses RCU.

Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 9aa90a6f20e02e920e883f17e7393aa0e0046400..be6f1d40b66ab0d211fd01c7753d19d730c33d14 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr);
 /*
  * Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators
  */
+void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
 void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
 void kfree(const void *);
 size_t ksize(const void *);

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 8f18683825bcd0e3b95b4fe1754befb3e0b0268c..6ef9e9943f626de713f9b7519ec72a5d009841bc 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -68,25 +68,22 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
 
 /**
- * krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
+ * __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p.
  * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
  * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
  *
- * The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
- * lesser of the new and old sizes.  If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
- * behaves exactly like kmalloc().  If @size is 0 and @p is not a
- * %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
+ * This function is like krealloc() except it never frees the originally
+ * allocated buffer. Use this if you don't want to free the buffer immediately
+ * like, for example, with RCU.
  */
-void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
+void *__krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
 {
        void *ret;
        size_t ks = 0;
 
-       if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
-               kfree(p);
+       if (unlikely(!new_size))
                return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
-       }
 
        if (p)
                ks = ksize(p);
@@ -95,10 +92,37 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
                return (void *)p;
 
        ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
-       if (ret && p) {
+       if (ret && p)
                memcpy(ret, p, ks);
+
+       return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__krealloc);
+
+/**
+ * krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
+ * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
+ * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ *
+ * The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
+ * lesser of the new and old sizes.  If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
+ * behaves exactly like kmalloc().  If @size is 0 and @p is not a
+ * %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
+ */
+void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+       void *ret;
+
+       if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
                kfree(p);
+               return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
        }
+
+       ret = __krealloc(p, new_size, flags);
+       if (ret && p != ret)
+               kfree(p);
+
        return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
index 3469bc71a385eacb66b2099c334833469ec889cf..c956ef7eeecbf3c3940f95ac027d7f197a85a5aa 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_extend.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ void *__nf_ct_ext_add(struct nf_conn *ct, enum nf_ct_ext_id id, gfp_t gfp)
        newlen = newoff + t->len;
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
-       new = krealloc(ct->ext, newlen, gfp);
+       new = __krealloc(ct->ext, newlen, gfp);
        if (!new)
                return NULL;