[PATCH] net/virtio: fix Rx checksum calculation

Mattias Rönnblom hofors at lysator.liu.se
Wed Dec 18 18:19:24 CET 2024


On 2024-12-18 09:59, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/18/24 08:34, Wangyunjian(wangyunjian,TongTu) wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 11:33 PM
>>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>; Maxime Gouin
>>> <maxime.gouin at 6wind.com>; Maxime Coquelin
>>> <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>>> Subject: [PATCH] net/virtio: fix Rx checksum calculation
>>>
>>> From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
>>>
>>> If hdr->csum_start is larger than packet length, the len argument passed
>>> to rte_raw_cksum_mbuf() overflows and causes a segmentation fault.
>>>
>>> Ignore checksum computation in this case.
>>>
>>> CVE-2024-11614
>>>
>>> Fixes: ca7036b4af3a ("vhost: fix offload flags in Rx path")
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Gouin <maxime.gouin at 6wind.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   lib/vhost/virtio_net.c | 3 +++
>>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
>>> index d764d4bc6a..69901ab3b5 100644
>>> --- a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
>>> +++ b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
>>> @@ -2823,6 +2823,9 @@ vhost_dequeue_offload(struct virtio_net *dev,
>>> struct virtio_net_hdr *hdr,
>>>                */
>>>               uint16_t csum = 0, off;
>>>
>>> +            if (hdr->csum_start >= rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m))
>>> +                return;
>>> +
>>
>> The hdr->csum_start does two successive reads from user space to read
>> a variable length data structure. The result overflow if the data 
>> structure
>> changes between the two reads.
>>

You don't know if the resulting object code will perform one, two or 
more loads from memory.

If you want to be sure it's exactly one load, you need to go through a 
volatile pointer. This seems like a use case for RTE_READ_ONCE() (which 
doesn't exist).

An alternative is to do a relaxed atomic load, which is really what you 
ask for.

>> We can prevent double fetch issue by using the temporary variable 
>> csum_start.
> 

I don't think that makes a difference. The compiler is still free to 
generate object code which load from the same location multiple times.

> Right, that's a good catch! The exploitation od this issue seem
> difficult though.
> 
> We may systematically copy the full header, as we only do it for ones
> not contiguous in host VA space.
> 

I think you would need to go through a volatile pointer here as well, to 
make sure the copy actually occur. At least if the target is 
stack-allocated object.

> What do you think? Are you willing to contribute a fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> Maxime
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yunjian
>>
>>>               if (rte_raw_cksum_mbuf(m, hdr->csum_start,
>>>                       rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(m) - hdr->csum_start, &csum) <
>>> 0)
>>>                   return;
>>> -- 
>>> 2.47.0
>>
> 



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