In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: Forward wakeup to smc socket waitqueue after fallback
When we replace TCP with SMC and a fallback occurs, there may be
some socket waitqueue entries remaining in smc socket->wq, such
as eppoll_entries inserted by userspace applications.
After the fallback, data flows over TCP/IP and only clcsocket->wq
will be woken up. Applications can't be notified by the entries
which were inserted in smc socket->wq before fallback. So we need
a mechanism to wake up smc socket->wq at the same time if some
entries remaining in it.
The current workaround is to transfer the entries from smc socket->wq
to clcsock->wq during the fallback. But this may cause a crash
like this:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000100: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 5.16.0+ #107
RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x65/0x170
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__wake_up_common_lock+0x7a/0xc0
sock_def_readable+0x3c/0x70
tcp_data_queue+0x4a7/0xc40
tcp_rcv_established+0x32f/0x660
? sk_filter_trim_cap+0xcb/0x2e0
tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x10b/0x260
tcp_v4_rcv+0xd2a/0xde0
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x3b/0x1d0
ip_local_deliver_finish+0x54/0x60
ip_local_deliver+0x6a/0x110
? tcp_v4_early_demux+0xa2/0x140
? tcp_v4_early_demux+0x10d/0x140
ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x49/0x60
ip_sublist_rcv+0x19d/0x230
ip_list_rcv+0x13e/0x170
__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1c2/0x240
netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1e6/0x320
napi_complete_done+0x11d/0x190
mlx5e_napi_poll+0x163/0x6b0 [mlx5_core]
__napi_poll+0x3c/0x1b0
net_rx_action+0x27c/0x300
__do_softirq+0x114/0x2d2
irq_exit_rcu+0xb4/0xe0
common_interrupt+0xba/0xe0
</IRQ>
<TASK>
The crash is caused by privately transferring waitqueue entries from
smc socket->wq to clcsock->wq. The owners of these entries, such as
epoll, have no idea that the entries have been transferred to a
different socket wait queue and still use original waitqueue spinlock
(smc socket->wq.wait.lock) to make the entries operation exclusive,
but it doesn't work. The operations to the entries, such as removing
from the waitqueue (now is clcsock->wq after fallback), may cause a
crash when clcsock waitqueue is being iterated over at the moment.
This patch tries to fix this by no longer transferring wait queue
entries privately, but introducing own implementations of clcsock's
callback functions in fallback situation. The callback functions will
forward the wakeup to smc socket->wq if clcsock->wq is actually woken
up and smc socket->wq has remaining entries.
Publication date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:15:00 +0000