CVE-2024-26731 bpf, sockmap: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready()

2024-04-0317:00:18

Linux

www.cve.org

linux kernel

vulnerability

bpf

sockmap

null pointer

dereference

syzbot

bug

patch

data ready

concurrency

cve

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

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

bpf, sockmap: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready()

syzbot reported the following NULL pointer dereference issue [1]:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[…]
RIP: 0010:0x0
[…]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0x232/0x340 net/core/skmsg.c:1230
unix_stream_sendmsg+0x9b4/0x1230 net/unix/af_unix.c:2293
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x221/0x270 net/socket.c:745
____sys_sendmsg+0x525/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2584
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2638 [inline]
__sys_sendmsg+0x2b0/0x3a0 net/socket.c:2667
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x240
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77

If sk_psock_verdict_data_ready() and sk_psock_stop_verdict() are called
concurrently, psock->saved_data_ready can be NULL, causing the above issue.

This patch fixes this issue by calling the appropriate data ready function
using the sk_psock_data_ready() helper and protecting it from concurrency
with sk->sk_callback_lock.

CNA Affected

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