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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Anastasia Kovaleva <a.kovaleva@yadro.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<stable@vger.kernel.org>, <linux@yadro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 06:02:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241002060240.3aca47cc@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241001115828.25362-1-a.kovaleva@yadro.com>

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 14:58:28 +0300 Anastasia Kovaleva wrote:
> The kernel may crash when deleting a genetlink family if there are still
> listeners for that family:

Could you add a selftest? Should be fairly easy using YNL, ncdevmem is
the only user so far.

> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>   ...
>   NIP [c000000000c080bc] netlink_update_socket_mc+0x3c/0xc0
>   LR [c000000000c0f764] __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0
>   Call Trace:
> __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0
> genl_unregister_family+0xd4/0x2d0
> 
> Change the unsafe loop on the list to a safe one, because inside the
> loop there is an element removal from this list.
> 
> Fixes: b8273570f802 ("genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)")\

nit: trailing \ at the end of the line here

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-02 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-01 11:58 [PATCH v2 net] net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list Anastasia Kovaleva
2024-10-02 13:02 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-10-02 17:53   ` Anastasia Kovaleva
2024-10-02 18:56     ` Jakub Kicinski

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