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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [ 26/34] genetlink: fix family dump race
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:34:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130818203301.472742556@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130818203259.653403173@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

commit 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db upstream.

When dumping generic netlink families, only the first dump call
is locked with genl_lock(), which protects the list of families,
and thus subsequent calls can access the data without locking,
racing against family addition/removal. This can cause a crash.
Fix it - the locking needs to be conditional because the first
time around it's already locked.

A similar bug was reported to me on an old kernel (3.4.47) but
the exact scenario that happened there is no longer possible,
on those kernels the first round wasn't locked either. Looking
at the current code I found the race described above, which had
also existed on the old kernel.

Reported-by: Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -744,6 +744,10 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buf
 	struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
 	int chains_to_skip = cb->args[0];
 	int fams_to_skip = cb->args[1];
+	bool need_locking = chains_to_skip || fams_to_skip;
+
+	if (need_locking)
+		genl_lock();
 
 	for (i = chains_to_skip; i < GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE; i++) {
 		n = 0;
@@ -765,6 +769,9 @@ errout:
 	cb->args[0] = i;
 	cb->args[1] = n;
 
+	if (need_locking)
+		genl_unlock();
+
 	return skb->len;
 }
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-18 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-18 20:34 [ 00/34] 3.4.59-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 01/34] perf/arm: Fix armpmu_map_hw_event() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 02/34] fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix buffer overflow in add_page_map() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 03/34] drm/i915/lvds: ditch ->prepare special case Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 04/34] MIPS: Expose missing pci_io{map,unmap} declarations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 05/34] microblaze: Update microblaze defconfigs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 06/34] sound: Fix make allmodconfig on MIPS Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 07/34] sound: Fix make allmodconfig on MIPS correctly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 08/34] HID: microsoft: do not use compound literal - fix build Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 09/34] vm: add no-mmu vm_iomap_memory() stub Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 10/34] cris: posix_types.h, include asm-generic/posix_types.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 11/34] cris: Remove old legacy "-traditional" flag from arch-v10/lib/Makefile Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 12/34] CRIS: Add _sdata to vmlinux.lds.S Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 13/34] futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 14/34] frv: Use correct size for task_struct allocation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 15/34] frv: Use core allocator for task_struct Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 16/34] powerpc/numa: Avoid stupid uninitialized warning from gcc Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 17/34] alpha: makefile: dont enforce small data model for kernel builds Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 18/34] md/raid1,raid10: use freeze_array in place of raise_barrier in various places Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 19/34] sparc32: add ucmpdi2 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 20/34] sparc32: Add ucmpdi2.o to obj-y instead of lib-y Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 21/34] MIPS: Rewrite pfn_valid to work in modules, too Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 22/34] af_key: initialize satype in key_notify_policy_flush() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 23/34] iwl4965: set power mode early Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 24/34] iwl4965: reset firmware after rfkill off Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 25/34] can: pcan_usb: fix wrong memcpy() bytes length Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 27/34] usb: add two quirky touchscreen Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 28/34] USB: mos7720: fix broken control requests Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 29/34] xtensa: fix linker script transformation for .text.unlikely Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 30/34] xtensa: replace xtensa-specific _f{data,text} by _s{data,text} Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 31/34] ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 32/34] m68k: Truncate base in do_div() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 33/34] m68k/atari: ARAnyM - Fix NatFeat module support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-18 20:34 ` [ 34/34] jbd2: Fix use after free after error in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-19  1:49 ` [ 00/34] 3.4.59-stable review Guenter Roeck
2013-08-19 18:02 ` Shuah Khan
2013-08-19 19:35   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-19 20:14     ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2013-08-19 22:22       ` Shuah Khan
2013-08-19 22:30         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-20  7:36           ` Berg, Johannes
2013-08-20  7:36             ` Berg, Johannes
2013-08-20 15:24             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-20 15:32               ` Berg, Johannes
2013-08-20 15:53               ` Hugh Dickins
2013-08-20 16:03                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-20 16:25                   ` Hugh Dickins
2013-08-20 16:43                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-20 16:43                   ` Shuah Khan
2013-08-19 22:31         ` Shuah Khan

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