linux/net/ax25
Lars Kellogg-Stedman 3c34fb0bd4 ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections
When releasing a socket in ax25_release(), we call netdev_put() to
decrease the refcount on the associated ax.25 device. However, the
execution path for accepting an incoming connection never calls
netdev_hold(). This imbalance leads to refcount errors, and ultimately
to kernel crashes.

A typical call trace for the above situation will start with one of the
following errors:

    refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory.
    refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.

And will then have a trace like:

    Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    ? show_regs+0x64/0x70
    ? __warn+0x83/0x120
    ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100
    ? report_bug+0x158/0x190
    ? prb_read_valid+0x20/0x30
    ? handle_bug+0x3e/0x70
    ? exc_invalid_op+0x1c/0x70
    ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1f/0x30
    ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100
    ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xb2/0x100
    ax25_release+0x2ad/0x360
    __sock_release+0x35/0xa0
    sock_close+0x19/0x20
    [...]

On reboot (or any attempt to remove the interface), the kernel gets
stuck in an infinite loop:

    unregister_netdevice: waiting for ax0 to become free. Usage count = 0

This patch corrects these issues by ensuring that we call netdev_hold()
and ax25_dev_hold() for new connections in ax25_accept(). This makes the
logic leading to ax25_accept() match the logic for ax25_bind(): in both
cases we increment the refcount, which is ultimately decremented in
ax25_release().

Fixes: 9fd75b66b8 ("ax25: Fix refcount leaks caused by ax25_cb_del()")
Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@oddbit.com>
Tested-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Tested-by: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Maness <christopher.maness@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240529210242.3346844-2-lars@oddbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-06-01 15:49:26 -07:00
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af_ax25.c ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections 2024-06-01 15:49:26 -07:00
ax25_addr.c
ax25_dev.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2024-05-14 10:53:19 -07:00
ax25_ds_in.c
ax25_ds_subr.c
ax25_ds_timer.c ax25: Remove superfuous "return" from ax25_ds_set_timer 2024-05-08 12:23:10 +01:00
ax25_iface.c
ax25_in.c
ax25_ip.c
ax25_out.c
ax25_route.c
ax25_std_in.c
ax25_std_subr.c
ax25_std_timer.c
ax25_subr.c
ax25_timer.c
ax25_uid.c
Kconfig
Makefile
sysctl_net_ax25.c ax.25: x.25: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array 2024-05-03 13:29:43 +01:00