CVE-2024-35969

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: fix race condition between ipv6getifaddr and ipv6deladdr

Although ipv6getifaddr walks inet6addrlst under the RCU lock, it still means hlistforeachentryrcu can return an item that got removed from the list. The memory itself of such item is not freed thanks to RCU but nothing guarantees the actual content of the memory is sane.

In particular, the reference count can be zero. This can happen if ipv6deladdr is called in parallel. ipv6deladdr removes the entry from inet6addrlst (hlistdelinitrcu(&ifp->addrlst)) and drops all references (__in6ifaput(ifp) + in6ifaput(ifp)). With bad enough timing, this can happen:

1. In ipv6getifaddr, hlistforeachentryrcu returns an entry.

2. Then, the whole ipv6deladdr is executed for the given entry. The reference count drops to zero and kfree_rcu is scheduled.

3. ipv6getifaddr continues and tries to increments the reference count (in6ifahold).

4. The rcu is unlocked and the entry is freed.

5. The freed entry is returned.

Prevent increasing of the reference count in such case. The name in6ifaholdsafe is chosen to mimic the existing fib6infoholdsafe.

[ 41.506330] refcountt: addition on 0; use-after-free. [ 41.506760] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 595 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcountwarnsaturate+0xa5/0x130 [ 41.507413] Modules linked in: veth bridge stp llc [ 41.507821] CPU: 0 PID: 595 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc2.main-00208-g49563be82afa #14 [ 41.508479] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) [ 41.509163] RIP: 0010:refcountwarn_saturate+0xa5/0x130 [ 41.509586] Code: ad ff 90 0f 0b 90 90 c3 cc cc cc cc 80 3d c0 30 ad 01 00 75 a0 c6 05 b7 30 ad 01 01 90 48 c7 c7 38 cc 7a 8c e8 cc 18 ad ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 90 c3 cc cc cc cc 80 3d 98 30 ad 01 00 0f 85 75 ff ff ff [ 41.510956] RSP: 0018:ffffbda3c026baf0 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 41.511368] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9e9c46914800 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 41.511910] RDX: ffff9e9c7ec29c00 RSI: ffff9e9c7ec1c900 RDI: ffff9e9c7ec1c900 [ 41.512445] RBP: ffff9e9c43660c9c R08: 0000000000009ffb R09: 00000000ffffdfff [ 41.512998] R10: 00000000ffffdfff R11: ffffffff8ca58a40 R12: ffff9e9c4339a000 [ 41.513534] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff9e9c438a0000 R15: ffffbda3c026bb48 [ 41.514086] FS: 00007fbc4cda1740(0000) GS:ffff9e9c7ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 41.514726] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 41.515176] CR2: 000056233b337d88 CR3: 000000000376e006 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 [ 41.515713] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 41.516252] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 41.516799] Call Trace: [ 41.517037] <TASK> [ 41.517249] ? __warn+0x7b/0x120 [ 41.517535] ? refcountwarnsaturate+0xa5/0x130 [ 41.517923] ? reportbug+0x164/0x190 [ 41.518240] ? handlebug+0x3d/0x70 [ 41.518541] ? excinvalidop+0x17/0x70 [ 41.520972] ? asmexcinvalidop+0x1a/0x20 [ 41.521325] ? refcountwarnsaturate+0xa5/0x130 [ 41.521708] ipv6getifaddr+0xda/0xe0 [ 41.522035] inet6rtm_getaddr+0x342/0x3f0 [ 41.522376] ? __pfxinet6rtmgetaddr+0x10/0x10 [ 41.522758] rtnetlinkrcvmsg+0x334/0x3d0 [ 41.523102] ? netlinkunicast+0x30f/0x390 [ 41.523445] ? __pfxrtnetlinkrcv_msg+0x10/0x10 [ 41.523832] netlinkrcvskb+0x53/0x100 [ 41.524157] netlinkunicast+0x23b/0x390 [ 41.524484] netlinksendmsg+0x1f2/0x440 [ 41.524826] __sys_sendto+0x1d8/0x1f0 [ 41.525145] __x64syssendto+0x1f/0x30 [ 41.525467] dosyscall64+0xa5/0x1b0 [ 41.525794] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x72/0x7a [ 41.526213] RIP: 0033:0x7fbc4cfcea9a [ 41.526528] Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 7e c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 48 83 ec 30 44 89 [ 41.527942] RSP: 002b:00007f ---truncated---