[036/152] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance

Greg KH
2011-01-06T00:57:22Z

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2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

commit 35d9b0c906ad92d32a0b8db5daa6fabfcc2f068d upstream.

Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 12:23 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 09:19 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>
> > Hmm..
> >
> > If somebody can explain why RTNL is held in arp_ioctl() (and therefore
> > in arp_req_delete()), we might first remove RTNL use in arp_ioctl() so
> > that your patch can be applied.
> >
> > Right now it is not good, because RTNL wont be necessarly held when you
> > are going to call arp_invalidate() ?
>
> While doing this analysis, I found a refcount bug in llc, I'll send a
> patch for net-2.6

Oh well, of course I must first fix the bug in net-2.6, and wait David
pull the fix in net-next-2.6 before sending this rcu conversion.

Note: this patch should be sent to stable teams (2.6.34 and up)

[PATCH net-2.6] llc: fix a device refcount imbalance

commit abf9d537fea225 (llc: add support for SO_BINDTODEVICE) added one
refcount imbalance in llc_ui_bind(), because dev_getbyhwaddr() doesnt
take a reference on device, while dev_get_by_index() does.

Fix this using RCU locking. And since an RCU conversion will be done for
2.6.38 for dev_getbyhwaddr(), put the rcu_read_lock/unlock exactly at
their final place.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/llc/af_llc.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/llc/af_llc.c
+++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c
@@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ static int llc_ui_bind(struct socket *so
goto out;
rc = -ENODEV;
rtnl_lock();
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (sk->sk_bound_dev_if) {
- llc->dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
+ llc->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(&init_net, sk->sk_bound_dev_if);
if (llc->dev) {
if (!addr->sllc_arphrd)
addr->sllc_arphrd = llc->dev->type;
@@ -329,13 +330,13 @@ static int llc_ui_bind(struct socket *so
!llc_mac_match(addr->sllc_mac,
llc->dev->dev_addr)) {
rc = -EINVAL;
- dev_put(llc->dev);
llc->dev = NULL;
}
}
} else
llc->dev = dev_getbyhwaddr(&init_net, addr->sllc_arphrd,
addr->sllc_mac);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
rtnl_unlock();
if (!llc->dev)
goto out;