[PATCH 3.13 086/105] fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink

Kamal Mostafa
2014-10-27T19:04:46Z

From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

commit 24dff96a37a2ca319e75a74d3929b2de22447ca6 upstream.

we used to check for "nobody else could start doing anything with
that opened file" by checking that refcount was 2 or less - one
for descriptor table and one we'd acquired in fget() on the way to
wherever we are. That was race-prone (somebody else might have
had a reference to descriptor table and do fget() just as we'd
been checking) and it had become flat-out incorrect back when
we switched to fget_light() on those codepaths - unlike fget(),
it doesn't grab an extra reference unless the descriptor table
is shared. The same change allowed a race-free check, though -
we are safe exactly when refcount is less than 2.

It was a long time ago; pre-2.6.12 for ioctl() (the codepath leading
to ppp one) and 2.6.17 for sendmsg() (netlink one). OTOH,
netlink hadn't grown that check until 3.9 and ppp used to live
in drivers/net, not drivers/net/ppp until 3.1. The bug existed
well before that, though, and the same fix used to apply in old
location of file.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 +-
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
index 72ff14b..5a1897d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static long ppp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
if (file == ppp->owner)
ppp_shutdown_interface(ppp);
}
- if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) <= 2) {
+ if (atomic_long_read(&file->f_count) < 2) {
ppp_release(NULL, file);
err = 0;
} else
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index ab68a92e..dbba678 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ static int netlink_mmap_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
* after validation, the socket and the ring may only be used by a
* single process, otherwise we fall back to copying.
*/
- if (atomic_long_read(&sk->sk_socket->file->f_count) > 2 ||
+ if (atomic_long_read(&sk->sk_socket->file->f_count) > 1 ||
atomic_read(&nlk->mapped) > 1)
excl = false;

--
1.9.1