tree 4d9925a68e67ff3df5e560e188e5bf4dad6dc8e2
parent ef759f6fcc8ee892178e087f99e731bbedada4fb
author Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> 1466531474 +0200
committer Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> 1468930859 +0300

linux-user: fix netlink memory corruption

Netlink is byte-swapping data in the guest memory (it's bad).

It's ok when the data come from the host as they are generated by the
host.

But it doesn't work when data come from the guest: the guest can
try to reuse these data whereas they have been byte-swapped.

This is what happens in glibc:

glibc generates a sequence number in nlh.nlmsg_seq and calls
sendto() with this nlh. In sendto(), we byte-swap nlmsg.seq.

Later, after the recvmsg(), glibc compares nlh.nlmsg_seq with
sequence number given in return, and of course it fails (hangs),
because nlh.nlmsg_seq is not valid anymore.

The involved code in glibc is:

sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c:make_request()
...
  req.nlh.nlmsg_seq = time (NULL);
...
  if (TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__sendto (fd, (void *) &req, sizeof (req), 0,
                                    (struct sockaddr *) &nladdr,
                                    sizeof (nladdr))) < 0)
<here req.nlh.nlmsg_seq has been byte-swapped>
...
  do
    {
...
      ssize_t read_len = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__recvmsg (fd, &msg, 0));
...
      struct nlmsghdr *nlmh;
      for (nlmh = (struct nlmsghdr *) buf;
           NLMSG_OK (nlmh, (size_t) read_len);
           nlmh = (struct nlmsghdr *) NLMSG_NEXT (nlmh, read_len))
        {
<we compare nlmh->nlmsg_seq with corrupted req.nlh.nlmsg_seq>
          if (nladdr.nl_pid != 0 || (pid_t) nlmh->nlmsg_pid != pid
              || nlmh->nlmsg_seq != req.nlh.nlmsg_seq)
            continue;
...
          else if (nlmh->nlmsg_type == NLMSG_DONE)
            /* We found the end, leave the loop.  */
            done = true;
        }
    }
  while (! done);

As we have a continue on "nlmh->nlmsg_seq != req.nlh.nlmsg_seq",
"done" cannot be set to "true" and we have an infinite loop.

It's why commands like "apt-get update" or "dnf update hangs".

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>