net_alloc_generic is called by net_alloc, which is called without any locking. It reads max_gen_ptrs, which is changed under pernet_ops_rwsem. It is read twice, first to allocate an array, then to set s.len, which is later used to limit the bounds of the array access.

It is possible that the array is allocated and another thread is registering a new pernet ops, increments max_gen_ptrs, which is then used to set s.len with a larger than allocated length for the variable array.

Fix it by reading max_gen_ptrs only once in net_alloc_generic. If max_gen_ptrs is later incremented, it will be caught in net_assign_generic.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com Fixes: 073862ba5d24 ("netns: fix net_alloc_generic()") Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- v3: - Use reverse xmas order in local variable declaration. - Use netdev multi-line comment style. - Target to net tree. - Cc stable. v2: - Instead of delaying struct net_generic allocation to setup_net, read max_gen_ptrs only once. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240430084253.3272177-1-cascardo@igalia.com/ --- net/core/net_namespace.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index f0540c557515..9d690d32da33 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c @@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ DEFINE_COOKIE(net_cookie);

static struct net_generic *net_alloc_generic(void) { + unsigned int gen_ptrs = READ_ONCE(max_gen_ptrs); + unsigned int generic_size; struct net_generic *ng; - unsigned int generic_size = offsetof(struct net_generic, ptr[max_gen_ptrs]); + + generic_size = offsetof(struct net_generic, ptr[gen_ptrs]);

ng = kzalloc(generic_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (ng) - ng->s.len = max_gen_ptrs; + ng->s.len = gen_ptrs;

return ng; } @@ -1307,7 +1310,11 @@ static int register_pernet_operations(struct list_head *list, if (error < 0) return error; *ops->id = error; - max_gen_ptrs = max(max_gen_ptrs, *ops->id + 1); + /* This does not require READ_ONCE as writers already hold + * pernet_ops_rwsem. But WRITE_ONCE is needed to protect + * net_alloc_generic. + */ + WRITE_ONCE(max_gen_ptrs, max(max_gen_ptrs, *ops->id + 1)); } error = __register_pernet_operations(list, ops); if (error) {