genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse() reuses the global family->attrbuf
when family->parallel_ops is false. However, family->attrbuf is not
protected by any lock on the genl_family_rcv_msg_doit() code path.
This leads to several different consequences, one of them is UAF,
like the following:
Note family->attrbuf is an array of pointers to the skb data, once
the skb is freed, any dereference of family->attrbuf will be a UAF.
Maybe we could serialize the family->attrbuf with genl_mutex too, but
that would make the locking more complicated. Instead, we can just get
rid of family->attrbuf and always allocate attrbuf from heap like the
family->parallel_ops==true code path. This may add some performance
overhead but comparing with taking the global genl_mutex, it still
looks better.
Fixes: 1bd0a4c050f3 ("net: ieee802154: have genetlink code to parse the attrs during dumpit") Fixes: 3a3cc4be2327 ("net: tipc: have genetlink code to parse the attrs during dumpit") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+3039ddf6d7b13daf3787@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+80cad1e3cb4c41cde6ff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+736bcbcb11b60d0c0792@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+520f8704db2b68091d44@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c96e4dfb32f8987fdeed@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>