nbd: fix uaf in nbd_genl_connect() error path

There is a use-after-free issue in nbd:

block nbd6: Receive control failed (result -104)
block nbd6: shutting down sockets
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in recv_work+0x694/0xa80 drivers/block/nbd.c:1022
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880295de478 by task kworker/u33:0/67

CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 67 Comm: kworker/u33:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5-syzkaller-00123-g2c89c1b655c0 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: nbd6-recv recv_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
 print_report+0xc3/0x670 mm/kasan/report.c:521
 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0xef/0x1a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]
 atomic_dec include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:592 [inline]
 recv_work+0x694/0xa80 drivers/block/nbd.c:1022
 process_one_work+0x9cc/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x3c2/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

nbd_genl_connect() does not properly stop the device on certain
error paths after nbd_start_device() has been called. This causes
the error path to put nbd->config while recv_work continue to use
the config after putting it, leading to use-after-free in recv_work.

This patch moves nbd_start_device() after the backend file creation.

Reported-by: syzbot+48240bab47e705c53126@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68227a04.050a0220.f2294.00b5.GAE@google.com/T/
Fixes: 6497ef8df568 ("nbd: provide a way for userspace processes to identify device backends")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Qixing <zhengqixing@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612132405.364904-1-zhengqixing@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 7bdc7eb808ea93c4cce2422717155050cdc945ca..2592bd19ebc151475ebe69b38a36a456c4208262 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -2198,9 +2198,7 @@ again:
                                goto out;
                }
        }
-       ret = nbd_start_device(nbd);
-       if (ret)
-               goto out;
+
        if (info->attrs[NBD_ATTR_BACKEND_IDENTIFIER]) {
                nbd->backend = nla_strdup(info->attrs[NBD_ATTR_BACKEND_IDENTIFIER],
                                          GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2216,6 +2214,8 @@ again:
                goto out;
        }
        set_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_BACKEND_FILE, &config->runtime_flags);
+
+       ret = nbd_start_device(nbd);
 out:
        mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
        if (!ret) {