Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers
pskb_carve_inside_header() and pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() both copy
the old skb_shared_info header into a new buffer via memcpy(), which
includes the destructor_arg pointer (uarg) for MSG_ZEROCOPY skbs.
Neither function calls net_zcopy_get() for the new shinfo, creating an
unaccounted holder: every skb_shared_info with destructor_arg set will
call skb_zcopy_clear() once when freed, but the corresponding
net_zcopy_get() was never called for the new copy. Repeated calls
drive uarg->refcnt to zero prematurely, freeing ubuf_info_msgzc while
TX skbs still hold live destructor_arg pointers.
KASAN reports use-after-free on a freed ubuf_info_msgzc:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_release_data+0x77b/0x810
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801574d3e8 by task poc/220
Call Trace:
skb_release_data+0x77b/0x810
kfree_skb_list_reason+0x13e/0x610
skb_release_data+0x4cd/0x810
sk_skb_reason_drop+0xf3/0x340
skb_queue_purge_reason+0x282/0x440
rds_tcp_inc_free+0x1e/0x30
rds_recvmsg+0x354/0x1780
__sys_recvmsg+0xdf/0x180
Allocated by task 219:
msg_zerocopy_realloc+0x157/0x7b0
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x2892/0x3ba0
Freed by task 219:
ip_recv_error+0x74a/0xb10
tcp_recvmsg+0x475/0x530
The skb consuming the late access still referenced the same uarg via
shinfo->destructor_arg copied by pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear() without
a refcount bump. This has been verified to be reliably exploitable: a
working proof-of-concept achieves full root privilege escalation from
an unprivileged local user on a default kernel configuration.
The fix follows the pattern of pskb_expand_head() which has the same
memcpy/cloned structure. For pskb_carve_inside_header(), net_zcopy_get()
is placed after skb_orphan_frags() succeeds, so the orphan error path
needs no cleanup. For pskb_carve_inside_nonlinear(), net_zcopy_get() is
placed after all failure points and just before skb_release_data(), so
no error path needs cleanup at all -- matching pskb_expand_head() more
closely and avoiding the need for a balancing net_zcopy_put().