[PATCH net v2] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes

[PATCH net v2] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes

[Niels Dossche]

valid_lft, prefered_lft and tstamp are always accessed under the lock
"lock" in other places. Reading these without taking the lock may result
in inconsistencies regarding the calculation of the valid and preferred
variables since decisions are taken on these fields for those variables.

Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@ugent.be>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 3f23da8c0b10..6c8ab3e6e6fe 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4998,6 +4998,7 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
 	    nla_put_s32(skb, IFA_TARGET_NETNSID, args->netnsid))
 		goto error;
 
+	spin_lock_bh(&ifa->lock);
 	if (!((ifa->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) &&
 	      (ifa->prefered_lft == INFINITY_LIFE_TIME))) {
 		preferred = ifa->prefered_lft;
@@ -5019,6 +5020,7 @@ static int inet6_fill_ifaddr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa,
 		preferred = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
 		valid = INFINITY_LIFE_TIME;
 	}
+	spin_unlock_bh(&ifa->lock);
 
 	if (!ipv6_addr_any(&ifa->peer_addr)) {
 		if (nla_put_in6_addr(skb, IFA_LOCAL, &ifa->addr) < 0 ||
-- 
2.35.1

Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes

[patchwork-bot+netdevbpf]

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:19:56 +0100 you wrote:
> valid_lft, prefered_lft and tstamp are always accessed under the lock
> "lock" in other places. Reading these without taking the lock may result
> in inconsistencies regarding the calculation of the valid and preferred
> variables since decisions are taken on these fields for those variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <niels.dossche@ugent.be>
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net,v2] ipv6: prevent a possible race condition with lifetimes
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/6c0d8833a605

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