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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2018-05-23 23:37:38 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-05-25 04:55:07 +0200 |
| commit | af8d3c7c001ae7df1ed2b2715f058113efc86187 (patch) | |
| tree | 1575c5be02826394ccef3639ab8ec7c033eec5b8 /include | |
| parent | ipv4: remove warning in ip_recv_error (diff) | |
| download | linux-af8d3c7c001ae7df1ed2b2715f058113efc86187.tar.xz linux-af8d3c7c001ae7df1ed2b2715f058113efc86187.zip | |
ppp: remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl
The PPPIOCDETACH ioctl effectively tries to "close" the given ppp file
before f_count has reached 0, which is fundamentally a bad idea. It
does check 'f_count < 2', which excludes concurrent operations on the
file since they would only be possible with a shared fd table, in which
case each fdget() would take a file reference. However, it fails to
account for the fact that even with 'f_count == 1' the file can still be
linked into epoll instances. As reported by syzbot, this can trivially
be used to cause a use-after-free.
Yet, the only known user of PPPIOCDETACH is pppd versions older than
ppp-2.4.2, which was released almost 15 years ago (November 2003).
Also, PPPIOCDETACH apparently stopped working reliably at around the
same time, when the f_count check was added to the kernel, e.g. see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/31/83. Also, the current 'f_count < 2'
check makes PPPIOCDETACH only work in single-threaded applications; it
always fails if called from a multithreaded application.
All pppd versions released in the last 15 years just close() the file
descriptor instead.
Therefore, instead of hacking around this bug by exporting epoll
internals to modules, and probably missing other related bugs, just
remove the PPPIOCDETACH ioctl and see if anyone actually notices. Leave
a stub in place that prints a one-time warning and returns EINVAL.
Reported-by: syzbot+16363c99d4134717c05b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Tested-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h index b19a9c249b15..784c2e3e572e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ppp-ioctl.h @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct pppol2tp_ioc_stats { #define PPPIOCGIDLE _IOR('t', 63, struct ppp_idle) /* get idle time */ #define PPPIOCNEWUNIT _IOWR('t', 62, int) /* create new ppp unit */ #define PPPIOCATTACH _IOW('t', 61, int) /* attach to ppp unit */ -#define PPPIOCDETACH _IOW('t', 60, int) /* detach from ppp unit/chan */ +#define PPPIOCDETACH _IOW('t', 60, int) /* obsolete, do not use */ #define PPPIOCSMRRU _IOW('t', 59, int) /* set multilink MRU */ #define PPPIOCCONNECT _IOW('t', 58, int) /* connect channel to unit */ #define PPPIOCDISCONN _IO('t', 57) /* disconnect channel */ |