[PATCH net] vxlan: do not arm the ageing timer on a device that is down

Baul Lee <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.stable,gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
vxlan_changelink() arms vxlan->age_timer whenever the requested ageing
interval differs from the configured one:

	if (conf.age_interval != vxlan->cfg.age_interval)
		mod_timer(&vxlan->age_timer, jiffies);

There is no netif_running() test, so the timer is armed even on a device
that was never brought up.  The only synchronous cancel in the driver is
the timer_delete_sync() in vxlan_stop(), which is .ndo_stop.
netif_close_many() drops devices without IFF_UP before
__dev_close_many() runs, so that cancel is skipped for such a device.

vxlan_setup() sets dev->needs_free_netdev = true and age_timer is a
member of struct vxlan_dev, so free_netdev() releases the allocation the
timer lives in while it is still queued on a timer_base.
expire_timers() unlinks the entry before it loads timer->function, so
the timer core writes through the freed object's list pointers:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timers+0x208/0x654
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff00001adace68 by task true/192
   __asan_store8+0x84/0xac
   __run_timers+0x208/0x654
   run_timer_softirq+0x154/0x18c
  Allocated by task 189:
   alloc_netdev_mqs+0x64/0x720
   rtnl_create_link+0x4ac/0x520
   rtnl_newlink+0x758/0xd00
  Freed by task 191:
   netdev_release+0x40/0x58
   netdev_run_todo+0x4a4/0x8c0
   rtnl_dellink+0x200/0x4e8

The rtnl operations involved are netns-scoped, so an unprivileged user
can perform them in a new user and network namespace.

Arming the timer on a down device never had an effect: vxlan_cleanup()
returns early on !netif_running(), and vxlan_open() arms the timer for
any non-zero interval once the device is brought up.  Add the missing
test.

Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <[email protected]>

Fixes: 40051c4dcad5 ("vxlan: Allow changing ageing time")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 1ded27768a97..824144bb7774 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -4500,7 +4500,7 @@ static int vxlan_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	if (change_igmp && vxlan_addr_multicast(&dst->remote_ip))
 		err = vxlan_multicast_leave(vxlan);
 
-	if (conf.age_interval != vxlan->cfg.age_interval)
+	if (netif_running(dev) && conf.age_interval != vxlan->cfg.age_interval)
 		mod_timer(&vxlan->age_timer, jiffies);
 
 	netdev_adjacent_change_commit(dst->remote_dev, lowerdev, dev);
-- 
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