CVE-2024-43887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/tcp: Disable TCP-AO static key after RCU grace period
The lifetime of TCP-AO static_key is the same as the last
tcp_ao_info. On the socket destruction tcp_ao_info ceases to be
with RCU grace period, while tcp-ao static branch is currently deferred
destructed. The static key definition is
: DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_DEFERRED_FALSE(tcp_ao_needed, HZ);
which means that if RCU grace period is delayed by more than a second
and tcp_ao_needed is in the process of disablement, other CPUs may
yet see tcp_ao_info which atent dead, but soon-to-be.
And that breaks the assumption of static_key_fast_inc_not_disabled().
See the comment near the definition:
> * The caller must make sure that the static key can’t get disabled while
> * in this function. It doesn’t patch jump labels, only adds a user to
> * an already enabled static key.
Originally it was introduced in commit eb8c507296f6 (“jump_label:
Prevent key->enabled int overflow”), which is needed for the atomic
contexts, one of which would be the creation of a full socket from a
request socket. In that atomic context, it’s known by the presence
of the key (md5/ao) that the static branch is already enabled.
So, the ref counter for that static branch is just incremented
instead of holding the proper mutex.
static_key_fast_inc_not_disabled() is just a helper for such usage
case. But it must not be used if the static branch could get disabled
in parallel as it’s not protected by jump_label_mutex and as a result,
races with jump_label_update() implementation details.
Happened on netdev test-bot[1], so not a theoretical issue:
[] jump_label: Fatal kernel bug, unexpected op at
tcp_inbound_hash+0x1a7/0x870 [ffffffffa8c4e9b7] (eb 50 0f 1f 44 != 66 90 0f
1f 00)) size:2 type:1
[] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c:73!
[] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
[] CPU: 3 PID: 243 Comm: kworker/3:3 Not tainted 6.10.0-virtme #1
[] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[] Workqueue: events jump_label_update_timeout
[] RIP: 0010:__jump_label_patch+0x2f6/0x350
…
[] Call Trace:
[] <TASK>
[] arch_jump_label_transform_queue+0x6c/0x110
[] __jump_label_update+0xef/0x350
[] __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked.part.0+0x3c/0x60
[] jump_label_update_timeout+0x2c/0x40
[] process_one_work+0xe3b/0x1670
[] worker_thread+0x587/0xce0
[] kthread+0x28a/0x350
[] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70
[] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[] </TASK>
[] Modules linked in: veth
[] —[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]—
[] RIP: 0010:__jump_label_patch+0x2f6/0x350
[1]:
https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-tcp-ao-dbg/results/696681/5-connect-deny-ipv6/stderr