[PATCH 4.19 30/77] net: hdlc_ppp: Fix issues when mod_timer is called while timer is running

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-11T13:51:02Z

From: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 1fef73597fa545c35fddc953979013882fbd4e55 ]

ppp_cp_event is called directly or indirectly by ppp_rx with "ppp->lock"
held. It may call mod_timer to add a new timer. However, at the same time
ppp_timer may be already running and waiting for "ppp->lock". In this
case, there's no need for ppp_timer to continue running and it can just
exit.

If we let ppp_timer continue running, it may call add_timer. This causes
kernel panic because add_timer can't be called with a timer pending.
This patch fixes this problem.

Fixes: e022c2f07ae5 ("WAN: new synchronous PPP implementation for generic HDLC.")
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c
@@ -572,6 +572,13 @@ static void ppp_timer(struct timer_list
unsigned long flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(&ppp->lock, flags);
+ /* mod_timer could be called after we entered this function but
+ * before we got the lock.
+ */
+ if (timer_pending(&proto->timer)) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ppp->lock, flags);
+ return;
+ }
switch (proto->state) {